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The Treaty of Paris ended the war ( Indian and French war) France surrendered their resources and possessions east of Mississippi to Britain. This ended the the source of insecurity for the British colonies when they were on the Atlantic coast.
The war costed a lot of money and to keep and army, in the future the British government would put up new taxes on colonist. -
The British imposed a new tax law called "The Stamp Act" which basically anything that was made of paper like Documents, Newspapers, and even playing cards. This made a lot of American Colonist very heated. In the future the Americans campaigned for it to be repealed, they were successful -
British Troops Invade Boston and start enforcing the new rules placed by the stamp act , also disturbing locals and instigating fights with them -
The Committee was created to deal with how the american colonialist dealt with the new policies the stamp act placed during those times -
The British Parliament passed the Intolerable acts in America among other things , but the British closed the Boston ports and demanded housing for British troop in American colonial homes, other colonies felt bad for America. -
The first shots were fired in Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts ,The news makes it all the way along the eastern seaboard, and thousands of people end up combining and creating the "minute men" and these are the beginnings of a continental army. -
During the first major part of war , inexperienced colonial soldiers manage to hold their own against the big and bad British army -
The British governor of Virginia , Lord Dunmore says that if there are any rebellious american slaves that can enter British lines can get the option offer of freedom , many African american slaves joined making the pro-Independence side much weaker in the process.