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Proclamation of 1763
It reserved land west of the Appalachian Mountains for the Indians. It was established by England after the French and Indian war. It was established to settle disputes between the colonists and the Natives. The colonists gained a great deal of valuable land. -
French and Indian War
- The cause of the French and Indian war was over land. English colonists wanted to expand west, but the French and Indians resisted. -The Iroquois League allied with the English, hoping the English would be more sympathetic. The war was between the British vs the French and the Indians over land. -The British won the ware but still faced colonial problems that the Treaty of Paris aggravated, which ended the war.
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The Sugar Act
English Parliament began to tax sugar and molasses on the colonists. They were doing this to have better control the smugglers of the colonies and to pay for the war debt. The colonists were not Happy about this. -
Quartering Act
This act required colonists to provide food, water, and living spaces to the British soldiers. -
Stamp Act Congress
Delegates met in NYC to discuss the Stamp Act. Parliament could not tax the colonies because colonies didn't have representatives in Parliament. -
Stamp Act
British parliament passed the Stamp Act which put a tax on legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards. The colonists didn't agree with the Stamp Act. Samuel Adams created the Sons of Liberty, they protested against British stamp agents. -
Declaratory Act
-Parliament repealed the stamp act.
-It stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain.
-Parliament had directly taxed the colonies for revenue from the sugar act and the stamp act. -
Townshend Acts
British Parliament replaced the stamp act with the townshend act. It put a tax on goods like lead, paper, glass, and tea. Someone people smuggled goods into their homes so they wouldn't have to pay taxes. Writs of Assistance allowed customs officers to search houses for smuggled goods. They would use this money to pay for the debt created by the French and Indian war. The colonists became very upset. THey them retaliated during the Boston Tea Party. -
Boston Massacre
-The Boston massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a patriot mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers.
-Five Colonists were killed when British Soldiers shot at protesting crowd.
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The Boston Tea Party
On this day in 1773, a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships moored in Boston Harbor and dumped 342 chests of tea into the water. The colonists did this in because the Tea Act was passed. England passed the Intolerable Act which closed down the Boston Harbor.
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Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were passed in 1774 to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party. There were three major acts involved that angered the colonists. The first was the Boston Port Bill and it closed the Boston Harbor until the people of Boston paid for the tea that they threw into the harbor. These laws made the people in Massachusetts and all the colonists very angry. The Intolerable Acts also helped the colonies bond together. They joined together in boycotting British goods. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies who met from September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania early in the American Revolution. They met in response to the Intolerable Acts. Defended colonists' right to run their own government, no military action unless attacked, and they agreed to meet again. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord kicked off the American Revolutionary War. Paul Revere and other riders sounded the alarm, and colonial militiamen began mobilizing to intercept the Redcoat column. A confrontation on the Lexington town green started off the fighting, and soon the British were hastily retreating. In 1783 the colonists formally won their independence. As many as 3,500 militiamen only killed or wounded 250 Redcoats, compared to about 90 killed and wounded on their side. -
Quebec Act
Quebec Act, passed by the British Parliament to institute a permanent administration in Canada replacing the temporary government created at the time of the Proclamation of 1763. It gave the French Canadians complete religious freedom and restored the French form of civil law.
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Battle of Bunker Hill
The Battle of Bunker Hill was between the British and the colonists, the British won. the Charlestown Peninsula fell firmly under British control. Despite losing their strategic positions, the battle was a significant morale-builder for the inexperienced Americans, convincing them that patriotic dedication could overcome superior British military might. The high price of victory at the Battle of Bunker Hill made the British realize that the war with the colonies would be long, tough and costly. -
Common Sense
Published in 1776, by Thomas Pain, Common Sense challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy. The plain language that Thomas Paine used spoke to the common people of America and was the first work to openly ask for independence from Great Britain.
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Declaration of Independence
with the Revolutionary War in full swing, the movement for independence from Britain had grown, and delegates of the Continental Congress were faced with a vote on the issue. In mid June 1776, a five-man committee including Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin was tasked with drafting a formal statement of the colonies’ intentions. The Congress formally adopted the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia on July 4, the birth of American independence. -
Second Continental Congress
First Continental Congress, which met in Philadelphia between September 5, 1774 and October 26, 1774. The Second Congress managed to create a continental army led by George Washington. They sent the Olive Branch Petition to King George the 3rd wanting peace. The Colonial war effort and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. -
where I got my information
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/sons-of-liberty-dump-british-tea http://www.encyclopedia.com/history/united-states-and-canada/canadian-history/1774-quebec-act http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/battles-of-lexington-and-concord http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/battle-of-bunker-hill http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/declaration-of-independence
