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The French and Indian war.
The English and the French battled for colonial domination in North America, the Caribbean, and in India. Young George Washington sent to Ohio River Valley to protect British colonists from French-Fired first shots at French force near Fort Dusquesne-French respond with 10-hour siege of Fort Necessity, Washington forced to surrender on 4th of July -
Battle of Quebec
-British scale cliffs up to Quebec during the night-Battle the next morning on Plains of Abraham on the outskirts of Quebec-Battle lasts 15 minutes- French defeated- British commander James Wolfe(in picture) and French commander Marquis de Montcalm both fatally wounded -
Proclamation of 1763
This Proclamation was signed to forbid the colonists from settling in the West of the Appalation Mountains. -
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Quartering Act
-Act passed by George Grenville in 1765 requiring certain colonies to provide food and lodging to British soldiers stationed there-Kept colonial resentment alive after Sugar Tax reduction -
Stamp Act Congress
-Congress in New York City with twenty seven delegates representing nine colonies.-had dignified debate, then drew up statement of rights and grievances urging Parliament to repeal the Stamp Act-Ignored in Britain, had little effect in colonies, but step toward colonial unity -
Stamp Act of 1765
The Stamp Act was formed so that the British people had to have a stamp on any legal goods. On February 6th, 1765 George Grenville rose in Parliament to offer the fifty-five resolutions of his Stamp Bill. A motion was offered to first read petitions from the Virginia colony and others was denied. The bill was passed on February 17, approved by the Lords on March 8th, and two weeks later ordered in effect by the King. The Stamp Act was Parliament's first serious attempt to assert governmental aut -
Decletory Acts
-This act bound the colonies to Parliament "in all cases whatsoever," affirming Parliament's complete authority over them.-Colonists wanted some self-government, Parliament would not grant- angered. -
The Townshed Act
The Townshend Act is a law that Britain enforced to where you need to pay taxes on paper, led, paint. The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed beginning in 1767 by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. The acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the program. Historians vary slightly in which acts they include under the heading "Townshend Acts", but five laws are often mentioned: the Revenue Act of 1 -
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was caused by the British using soldiers to make people to pay taxes. The Boston Massacre, called the Incident on King Street by the British, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five civilian men and injured six others. British troops had been stationed in Boston, capital of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, since 1768 in order to protect and support crown-appointed colonial officials attempting to enforce unpopular Parliamentary legislati -
Intolorable Acts
It casued revolution to armed rebellion throughout the colonies. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea party happened when people were tired of paying taxes on tea, so they decided to throw it in the Harbor to protest. The Boston Tea Party (referred to in its time simply as "the destruction of the tea" or by other informal names and so named until half a century later,[2]) was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, a city in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the tax policy of the British government and the East India Company that controlled all the tea im -
Decleration of Independence
The Americas won the battle of Lexington and Concord giving them their own land and own rights which they made Declaration of Independence
