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The French & Indian war also known as the Seven-year war was the New World conflict that made a new chapter in the long struggle between Britain and France. When France went to Ohio to claim more land they meet the British colonies war broke out at the Ohio river valley. many wars lead to a British declaration of war in 1756. -
The Boston Massacre was a bad action that happened on March 5, 1770, on King Street in Boston. It began as a street fight between American colonists and one British soldier but quickly turned into a massacre. The reason why the American colonist was protesting about there money being taken away from the taxes. The first person killed was named Crispus Attucks a black African American man. this leads to the American colonist getting overworked and mad about what happened. -
after the American colonist was furious they went to Boston harbor and dump all the tea off the boats into the sea. this was a protest showing the king how mad they were. this action does not help as the British king add another tax called the "intolerable act". -
From 1774 to 1789, the Continental Congress served were the government of the 13 colonies and later the United States. The First Continental Congress, which was from the colony's anger, met in 1774 in was a reaction to the Coercive Acts, a series of the British government on the colonies in response to their resistance to not do the new taxes. -
The Battles of Lexington and Concord fought on April 19, 1775, started the American revolutionary war. the first shot or the shot heard around the world start the war off no one knows who shot the first shot but once it was shot everything turned for the worse. paul revere warned the town of what was happening. -
On June 17, 1775, early in the Revolutionary War, the British defeated the Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill in Massachusetts. even tho they lost they continued to fight. (most of the American fighters were untrained and regular farmers). British soldiers continued coming in as the Americans lost that battle to the British. -
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