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French and Indian War
This began after France's expansion into the Ohio River valley which brung up conflict with the british. -
Proclamation of 1763
The proclamation of 1763 was meant to organize the french territiory that was gained in North America. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act is the extension of the Molasses Act. It was meant to keep colonial merchants and other manufacturers from smuggling non-British goods to avoid taxes. One of the successes of the Sugar act was that it increased the inforcement of smuggling laws. Today there are taxes on things in order to prevent people from smuggling things such as cigarrettes. Although people do still smuggle illeagal things such as alchohol or drugs maybe. -
Stamp Act
During the stamp act people that made public documents had to pay a tax on the paper they bought and a stamp would be used to prove payment. The money collected was used to protect the American frontier by the Appalachian Mountains and to maintain the remainder of british troops. -
Quartering Act
The purpose of the quartering act was to determine the housing of british soldiers in the homes of Americans. Colonist were to provide food, a place to eat, comfort and other things provided for good living condition. -
Townshend Act
These acts were applied in order to collect revenue from the colonist in America putting taxes on imports such as glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea. (this eventually lead to the Boston Tea Party) -
Boston Massacre
The British soldiers were angry becuse of the American colonist and as one day in 1770 they had had enough and the soldiers began firing at the crowd after they were ordered not to shoot and and shot five colonists. The first person to be hit was an African American soldier Crispus Attucks
* Walter Scott, an african american man was shot by police officer Michael Slager walking home from a cookout. This is related to this event because it shows how the authority willingly shoot innocent people -
Tea Act
The tea act was not intended to raise revenue and wasnt supposed to inforce new taxes. It was meant to help the East India Company get rid of unsold tea. However, it lead to the Boston Tea Party as well. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party happened because of "taxation without representation" The british believed that they were unfairly taxed because of the war. They thoughtt that they shouldn't be taxed by the parliament because the american people arent a part of the parlimen An event related to this might be when The busses were boycotted in 1955 after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat. This as well caused people to lose profit and they were also fighting for their rights. -
Coercive Acts
These were a series of four acts. This was put into place to restore order in Masachusetts to punish the Bostonians for the Tea party . -
First Continental Congress
Elected people from 12 colonies, Geogia wasnt present, who came together in order to seek a resolution with England. Today we have congress from all 50 states that come together and determine what the actions of our country are going to be. -
Shot heard around the world
Colonist had came earlier that morning to prevent the british troops from coming to destroy their weapons. Then when a faction was ordered by the british to leave a shot was fired and the war began. -
Second Continental Congress
They established the militia as the Continental Army to represent the thirteen states and made George Washington the Commander in Chief of the Continental Army. -
Common Sense
Written by Thomas Paine about his arguments in favor of American Independence. -
Declaration of Independence
Was written in order to declare the continental Congress free from Britan and a independent nation.
