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The Navigation acts had been passed by the English Parliament. The purpose of these acts was to force the colonist to help the growing English shiping industrys.
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No derict mail linked colonies with home country.
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Goerge Burrington hastned across the atlantic to convice the Crown to appoint him the first royal govener of North Carolina
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Burrington recived is comesion in January. However he had to wait nearly a year for his instructions. Something that also happended in the 1730s was that the board wanted to bind th colonies and England together in one large empire.
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Burrington sent a report to England to show the people of North Carolina had come to view of royal authority.
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George Washington set out on a dangerous misson. he had to carry a letter from Govener Robert Dinwiddie of Virginia demanding that the French depart from the Ohio River.
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The British summoned representitives from the colonies to meet with the Iroquois leader to discuss mesure for mutual deffense and also in 1754 the Seven Year War broke out.
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Govener Dinwiddie ordered Washington back into the wilderness, he had to go build a fort where the Allgheny and Monongahela Rivers join to make the Ohio River.
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The assembaly ordered the construction of a fort near Yadkin River, north of present day Statsville
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Braddock had set out with an army made up of British soldiers and colonial militia to drive the French from Fort Duquesne.
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Britian and France declared war with each other.
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The tide in the war began to turn in Britians favor.
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Mayor Hugh Waddell from lower Cape Fear led about 300 North Carolinians to support yet another British attack
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British general James Wolfe captured the great fortress city of Quebec. Another thing that happended in 1759 was that a band of Cherokee warriors had gone with a Virginia expediton to raid the Shawnee of Ohio
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A full-scale war broke out between the Cherokee and the British
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Another British forced of 2,250 men marched into Cherokee counrty.
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British and French exhuasted by the long struggle, they signed the Treaty of Paris. This officialy ended the Seven Year War.
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Native Americans in the Ohio River Vally learned about the Treaty of Paris
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Signed the Proclamation.
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Around 10,000 red-couted British soilders arrived to protect coloniist from Spaniards also in 1764 Britian passed the Sugar Act.
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Govener Dobbs refused to allow the North Carolina Assembaly to meet to elect a delagate for the congress
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Parlieamet enclad the Quartering Act
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Despite such arguments, Parliamnet allowed the Stamp Act to go into effect.
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both sides breathed easiar when Parliament repealed ,or with draw the unpopular law.
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Charles townshed, Britians chancelor of the Exchequer, the goverment official in charge of British finances.
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Parliament ordered the royal govener of Massachusetts to disolve that Colonys Assembly unless it retracted the Circuler letter
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Speaker harvey presented the plan for Non-Importatation Association to North Carolina Assembaly
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Parlieament bowed to pressure and eliminated all the taxes eccept the taxes on tea.
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British tea merchants asked their goverment for help.
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Furious at the destruction of the tea in the Boston Harbor, Parliament sealed off the harbor until colonist paid for the damage. also in 1774 the colonies organized a meeting known as the Continental Congress
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Josiah Martin fled for his life from the Goveners Palace
