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French and Indian War
France And Great Britian fight in The French and Indian War
French have a Fort called Fort Duquesne which interferied with Britian
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American Revolution Timespan
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Proclamation of 1763
The proclamation established a proclamation line along the Appalachians which the colonsits were not alloved to cross. However the colonists eager to expand westward from the increasingly crowded atlantic, ignored the proc and continued to stream onto native amreican lands. -
Sugar Act
1.It halved the duty on foreign made molasses in the hopes that colonsits would pay a lwoer tax rather than risk arrest by smuggling.
2.It placed duties on certain imports that had not been taxed before. 3.
Most important it provided that colonsits accused of violating the act would be dried in a vice-admiralty court rather than a colonial court.
Colonial merchants complained about the sugar act, due to the thinking of reduce in profits
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Stamp Act
Parliment passed the stamp act in march 1765. Used to place taxxes on documents and printed items such as wills newspapers and playing cards. Colonists united to defy the law. Boston shopkeepers,artisans, and laborers organiszed a secret resistance group called the sons of liberty to protest the law. In oct merchants in new york boston and philadelphia agreed to a boycott of british goods until the stamp act was repealed. -
Sons of Liberty Formation
Due to the Stamp Act, Boston shopkeepers, Artisans and laborers organized a secret resistance group called sons of liberty. -
Townshend Acts
In 1767 Parliament passed the townshend acts. The Townshend Acts taxed goods that were imported into the colony from Britian such as lead, glass, paint, and paper. The acts also imposed a tax on tea, popular drink in the colonies. Led by Samuel Adams one of the founders of the Sons of Liberty, the colonists again boycotted Bristish goods -
Boston Massacre
A mob gathered in front of the Boston Customs House and taunterd the British soldiers standing guard there. Shots were fired and five colonists includng Crispus Attucks were killed or mortally wounded. Colonial leaders quickly labeled the confrontaion the Boston Massacre. -
Tea Act
In 1773 Lord North devised the Tea Acts in th eorder to save the nearly bankrupt British East India Co. The act granted the company the right to sell tea to the colonies free of the taxes that colonial tea sellers had to pay. This action would have cut colonial merchants out of the tea trade by enabling the EIC to sell its tea diretly to cosumers for less. North hoped the American colonists would simply buy the cheaper tea, instead the protested dramatically. -
Boston Tea Party
In the moonlit evening on December a large group of boston rebels disguised themselves as native americans and proceeded to take action against three british tea ships anchored in the harbor. In this incident later known as the BTP the "indians' dumped 18k poundes of the EIC tea into the waters of Boston Harbor -
Intolerable Acts
A infuriated KIng Geroge 3 pressed Parliament to act. In 1774 Parliament responded by passing a series of mesures that colonists called the intolerable acts. -
First Continental Conngress Meeting
Minutemen (civillian soldiers who pledged to be ready to fight against the british on a minutes notice) In the spring of 1775 he ordered British troops to march from boston to nearby concord massachusetss and to seize illegal weapon. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
Colonists in boston were watching and on the night of april 18 1785 paul Rever william dawes and saamuel prescott rode out to spread word that 700 british troops were headedfor concord. The kings troops known as redcoats because of their uniforms reached lexington massachusetss five miles short of concord. lexington battle only lasted 15 mins. In concord british soldiers lined up and fell by the dozen. Colonsits had become enemies of britian. -
Second continental congress
Colonists leaders called the second continental congress in philadelphia to debate their next move. The loyalties that divided colonsits sparked endless depates at the seocnd continental congress. Some delegates called for independence while others argued for conciliation with GB. Despite such differences the congress agreed to recognize the colonial militia as the continental army and appointed gearge washington as its commander. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
Gage semt 2400 british soldiers up the hill. The colonists held their fire until the last mintue and the nbegan to mow down the advancing redcoats berfore finally rereating. By the time the smoke cleared the colonists had lost 450 men, while the british had suffered over 1000 casualtties. The misnamed BBH would prove to be the dealiest battle of the war. -
Olive Branch Petition
By July the second continental congress was readuing the colonies for war though still hoping for peace. most of the delegates like most colonists felt deep loyalty to george 3 and blamed the bloodshed on the kings ministers. On july 8 congress sent the king the so called OBP urging to return to "the former harmony" between britian and the colonies. King george rejected the petition. He issued a proclamation statig that the colonies were in rebellion and urged parliament to order a naval block -
Early British Victories
Quebec 1775
Lexington 1775
Bunker hill 1775
Long Island1775
Brandywine 1777
able to win due to more troops and better funding also better weapons and training from mother country -
Publication of Cmmon Sense
Just as important were the ideas of thomas paine. In a widely read 50 page pamphlet titled COMMON SENSE. paine attacked king george and the monarchy. paine a recent immigrant argued that responsibility for british tyranny lay with "the roaly brute of britain"paine expalined that his own revolt against the king had begun with lexington and concord. Paine declared that independence would allow america to trade more freely. CS sold 500k copies in 1776. -
Declaration of independence
Drawing on Lockes idead of natural rights jefferson documents declared the rights of " Life laberty and the prusiot of happiness". The declaration states flatly that all men are created equal" On july 2 1776 th delegates voted unanimously that the american colonies were free and july 4 1776 they addoped the declaration of independence The colonists had declared their freedom from britain. They would now have to fight for it. -
Early Continental Army victories
Trenton 1776
Saratoga 1777
Concord 1775
Familiar with home ground
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Saratoga
American troops finally surronded eburgoyne at saratoga where he surrendered on oct 17 1777 the surrender at saratoga turned out to be one othe most important events of the war. Athough the french signed an alliance with the americans in feburary 1778 and openly joined them in their fight. -
Friedrich von steuben and marquis lafayette
a prussian captain and talented drill master helped to train the continental army. other foreign military leaders such as the marquis de lafayette lobbied france for french reinforcements in 1799 -
Valley Forge
Valley Forge was a place where 2k soliders died and the survivors didnt desert GW. That filled his spirits and his letters to congress -
British victories in the south
After their devastating defeat at saratoga the british began to shift their operations to the soutth. at the end of 1778 a british expedition easily took savannah, georgia. they keep moving and surrender at yorktown after defeat. -
British surrender at yorktown
Armies of lafayette and washington moved south toward yorktown. meanwhile a french naval force defeated a british fleet and then blocked the entrance to the chesapeake bay, thereby obstruction british sea routes to the bay. by late sept about 17k french and american troops surronded the british on the yorktown peninsuala and began bombarding them day and night. less than a month later on oct 19 1781 cornwallis finally surrendered. -
Treaty of Paris
Peace talks began in paris in 1782. The american negotiating team included john adams john jay of new york and benjamin franklin. in spet 1783 the delegates signed the traty of paris which confirmed us independence and set the boundaries of the new nation the united states now stretched from the atlantic ocean to the missisippi river and from canada to the florida border.
