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French and Indian War
France and Great Britain.
In North America.
The Native Indian helped the French fight against Britain.
Britain won the war and gained land in the North America. -
Treaty of Paris
Signed by Great Britain, France, and Spain.
It terminated the Seven Years War.
France lost its possessions on the North American continent by ceding Canada and all its territories east of the Mississippi to Great Britain. -
Proclamation of 1763
It was created to stop the war with Indian.
It was suppose stop the wars by prohibiting any brithish settlers to live beyond the Appalation Mountains.
It was ignored by British settlers. -
Stamp Act
Caused by the debt after the French and Indian War.
Great Britain put taxes on all of the colonies printing matters.
angered the colonies.
Colonists soon rebelled. -
Declaratory Act
Gave the king power to make whatever law they want.
This angered citizens again. -
Boston Massacre
British troops fire into a mob, killing five men and leading to intense public protests.
Helped sparked the American Revolution. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act forced all civilians to buy there tea from a company called the East India Company.
Caused the Boston Tea Party. -
Boston Tea Party
sixty local Boston men, dressed up as Mohawks, boarded three ships carrying tea. In the ships they smashed three-hundred sixty four crates of tea and threw them in the Boston Harbor.
Britain closed the port of Boston. -
First Continental Congress
Met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
56 delegates representing every colony except Georgia. -
American Revolution
War of independence fought between Great Britain and the 13 British colonies on the eastern seaboard of North America. -
Second Continental Congress
Revolutionary war.
the Declaration of Independence
George Washington was the the chief commander of Continental Army. -
Declaration of Independence
Wrote by Thomas Jefferson.
Signed by the thirteen representatives of each colony.
It declared that United States was not part of Britain. -
Shays's Rebellion
Farmers from New Hampshire to South Carolina take up arms to protest high state taxes and stiff penalties for failure to pay. -
George Washington
First president of United States.
