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In 1607 the first permanent British colonies in Jamestown Virginia. They had heard that there was gold in North America and wanted to find it.
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It took place between the French & British in NY and Penn. The British won causing the French to remove all their British colonies from North Am.
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The proclamation of 1763 was made by the British. This prevented the colonists from settling on land acquired from the French and Indian War. This was made to protect native american land.
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British started taxing the colonists on sugar and molasses as a way to pay off debt from the French and Indian War. This act also banned some foreign trade.
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This act allowed British soldiers to take refuge in colonists' homes. https://youtu.be/kykipTpk1YE?si=gE0SEZmDALDLxDH4
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King Georges's attempt at charging the colonists tax. He wanted to make money off the colonists. In 1765 the sons of Liberty formed. They were a group of colonists who got together to repeal the Stamp Act. https://youtu.be/ZJsooD56hAM?si=ZEfu9A0Y0VsaRt0f
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Another act for the British to tax the colonists. The people's anger about this is what led to the Boston massacre.
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New York started to resist the British soldiers. George Washington led troops to defend current Brooklyn.
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A street riot broke out on King Street Boston. To protest taxation without representation a group of rebels attacked a loyalist shop. This started an uproar that led to 6 British soldiers firing into a crowd of protesters and killing 5. One of which was Crispus Attucks a man widely known as the first person killed in the revolution. https://youtu.be/Og2y0Jx9ffc?si=6ZbiNUG-rc7_8Nbx
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inforced a tax on trade in order to bail out the East Indian company that sold them their tea. This taxing led to the Boston Tea Party.
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In Boston Massachusetts to protest the tax that Britain was implementing, close to 46 tons of tea was dumped into the Boston harbor. This was because they didn't agree with taxation without representation. https://youtu.be/O834yXDLnzE?si=uw0RpK9DufH4Kbu_
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The intolerable acts were put in place by the British to punish the rebels for the Boston Tea Party. The acts were that the Boston harbor was closed until all damages for the tea party were paid, took away Massachusett's right to self-govern, British soilers could be tried in Britain for their crimes, they had to house the British soldiers and Catholics in Canada the right to worship.
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56 delegates from each colony met in the carpenter's hall in Philidelphia, Payton Randoff was the president of the meeting. There were no delegates from Georgia, they were very wealthy because of trade with Britain and didn't want to get on their bad side.
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The delegates met again in the state house in Philadelphia which was later renamed Independence Hall. Some of these delegates included Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin. They made the decision to make a continental army to protect from the British and George Washington would lead it.
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The British had planned to arrest Sam Adams and John Handcock in Lexington and then destroy the colonist's weapons and supplies at Concord. Paul Revere and William Dawes to warn them. And while Paul Revere Road 12.5 miles a 16-year-old girl named Sybil Ludington had road 40 miles. On April 17th the first was fired, no one knows who fired the first shot. 8 colonists were dead and 10 were wounded. Only 1 British soldier was harmed.
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The Olive Branch Petition turned into a last-ditch effort to reconcile peacefully with Parliament. When John Dickenson gave him the letter he did not accept it and instead started war with the patriots.
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The colonists found out that the British were gonna put their troops in the Charlestown peninsula. William Prescott led 1,200 men to the top of Bunker Hill. But the colonists got confused and need up on breeds hill which was much closer to the British.
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written by Thomas Paine it was a 47-page pamphlet that criticized breaking from England.
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America declaring its independence from England
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George Washinton found out that the hessian troops wouldn't be fighting during Christmas so he and his army sailed across the Delaware to surprise attack them on Christmas.
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Put a stop to the British attempt the take control of Saratoga
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The continental army was starving and freezing to death. Many soldiers were dying of diseases and Washington was using firing squads to keep his troops.
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In new Jersey, troops fought against the British. General Lee had run away and had his troops retreat when he thought brits troops were closing in on him.
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George Washington's patriot army fought against General Cornwallis's British army. Patriots also had Lafayette and Rochambeau. They defeated the British at Yorktown but the war was nit yet over.
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Was a treaty between France, Britain, and the US. It said that all US states were to be counted as states, the wartime acts between Britain and the US had to stop, All debt between the US and Britain was forgiven.