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a. The cause of the war was for land
b. British wanted indians and french land. French has early victories, British captured key cities.
c. The British won the war. some effects are, Treaty of Paris, Proclamation of 1763. -
a. This reserved all of the land west of the Appalachian Mountains for the Indians.
b. The English increased tax on colonist for war debt. -
a. Smugglers were responsible for this act being placed.
b.When they imported sugar or molasses they had to pay a tax, they used sugar/ molasses to make rum which thy drink/ sell.
c. It was harder for the colonies to make money.
d. Smugglers got sent to British court instead of colonial court -
a. The colonist were responsible
b. There was a direct tax on every legal document, paper, cards etc.
c. The colonist created the Stamp Act Congress -
a. Delegates from each colonies were involved.
b. They met in New York City.
c. To discuss the stamp act and other acts, talking about why they were being taxed.
d. They come up with ¨no taxation without representation. -
a. The colonist had the provide food, drinks, and living space to British Soldiers.
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a. The Parliament repealed the stamp act, said they had the right to rule and tax colonies.
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a. Charles Townshend
b. Series of events where British taxed tea, lead,paper, glasss. Alos the British had writs of Assistance
c. Money would be used to pay for war debt.
d. They didnt like it and rebelled. -
- The colonist were protesting the British Soldiers
- A mob of colonist attacked the soldiers
- Soldiers shot and killed 5 people
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a. The sons of liberty were responsible
b. The tea tax lead up to this
c. - the colonist dressed up as native americans
- dumped 92,000 pounds of tea into the harbor
d. After this the English passed the intolerable acts -
a. All the colonist were affected. \
b. They were harsh laws that punished the colonist
c. In response the colonist had the 1st continental congress -
a. permanent administration in Canada replacing the temporary government created at the time of the Proclamation of 1763.
b. this helped push colonist to want independence even more. -
a. All states but Georgia attended, the founding fathers that was there were George Washington, John Adams, Samuel Adams, and John Rutledge
b. They met in Philadelphia.
c. The purpose of this was a response for the intolerable acts, and it was defending the colonies right to run their own government.
d. In result, the british didn´t listen to them, and attacked the colonies. -
a. i. The british were after hidden weapons of the colonist and Samuel Adams.
ii. The colonial force that fought were the minutemen.\
iii. The British came all this way to not find anything, and alot of the minutemen got shot.
b. ¨shot heard around the war", first battle of American Revolution -
a. The battle of bunker hill took place in Boston.
b. Redcoats stormed the hill 3 times and wouldnt give up.
c. The British ended up winning.
d. Huge confident booster for the colonies, gave them proof they could win. -
a. All the colonies were there except Georgia. John Hancock, Thomas Jefferson, James Wilson and Benjamin Franklin
b. The met in Philadelphia again.
c. At the meeting they, named George Washington leader of the continental army.
d.wrote the declaration of ¨Causes and Necessity of taking up arms¨, and sent the olive branch petition. -
a. The author was Thomas Payne.
b. It was telling people how they should want to be free, and want independence from such a bad country.
c. The signifigance was that he changed a bunch of loyalist minds to become patriots. -
a. Thomas Jefferson wrote this.
b. was signed on July 4, 1776.
c. The signifigance was that the colonies became their own country and declared independence from Britian.
d. The colonial response was that they got to become free and independent and turned into the United States. -
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