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French and Indian War
War with Brittan over fur trades. French and Indians were allies. -
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American Revolution
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Proclamation of 1763
Brittan passed a law saying you could build or own land past “this” line.
This angered colonists, because some of them lost their land. -
Sugar Act
This act effected any form of sugars. Including molasses. -
Quartering Act
This act gave the troops the right to make any citizen open their houses up for the troops. -
Stamp Act
This tax was heavy hitting for everyone, because now all paper goods needed to have a special stamp. -
Townshend Act
This act suspended New York’s general assembly until they agreed to house troops again. -
Boston Massacre
Six soldiers shot four unarmed pedestrians in the street of Boston.
Anti-British propaganda. -
Committees of Correspondence
The committees of correspondence were bodies organized by the local governments of the Colonies before the American Revolution for written communication within the colonies. -
Tea Act
EVERYBODY drank tea. That tax really angered the colonists. -
Boston Tea Party
Due to British interference with smugglers, the Sons of Liberty snuck around several boats disguised as Indians and dumped out all of the tea. -
Intolerable Acts
The acts stripped Massachusetts of self-government and historic rights. Four of the acts were issued in direct response to the Boston Tea Party. -
1st Continental Congress
The Patriots viewed the intolerable acts as a violation of the rights of Massachusetts, and in September of 1774 they organized the First Continental Congress to create a protest. -
2nd Continental Congress
The second Congress managed war, and moved towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
The first shots starting the revolution were fired at Lexington, Massachusetts. On April 18, 1775, British General Thomas Gage sent 700 soldiers to destroy guns and ammunition the colonists had stored in the town of Concord, just outside of Boston. They also planned to arrest Samuel Adams and John Hancock, two of the key leaders of the patriot movement. -
Thomas Paine's Common Sense
“Common Sense” challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy. The plain language that Paine used spoke to the common people of America and was the first work to openly ask for independence from Great Britain. -
Declaration of Independance
This document announced that the 13 colonies, at war with Brittan, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. Instead they formed a union that would become a new nation, the United States of America.
