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French and Indian War
a. The cause of the war was land
b. The English wanted to settle west and the French and Natives resisted. Washington lost one of the first battles of the war. The French had most of the early victories in the war.
c. The British and Colonists won when British came back when they captured Quebec and Montreal. They signed the Treaty or Paris in February, 1763. After the war the French no longer existed in the Americas and the boundary moved to the Mississippi River. -
Sugar Act
a. George Grenville
b. The tax on sugar and molasses.
c. They passed this act to regulate trade
d. The colonist especially in the North did not like this tax because they made money off of rum. They began to boycott english goods. http://www.thinglink.com/scene/862023186387042304 -
Proclamation of 1763
a. They passed the Proclamation to keep the colonist from settling past the Appalachian Mountains. They did this too please the Natives and to keep peace.
b. The colonist were furious because they wanted to to settle west and they could because the boundary line was pushed to the Mississippi River. -
Quartering Act
a. This law stated that the colonist had to feed and house the British soldiers. -
Stamp Act
a. British Parliament
b. The law made all paper products be required to have an official stamp on it.
c. The Sons of Liberty harassed the Stamp Act Agent with tar and feathers. Also the Stamp Act Congress formed to discuss the stamp act and said the colonist could not get taxed because there was not a representative in the Parliament that favored their opinion. -
Stamp Act Congress
a. Representatives from each colony attended
b. They met in New York City
c. They met to discuss the stamp act and how parliament cannot tax the colonies because they didn't have any representatives in parliament
d. They wrote the Declaration of the Rights and Grievances of the colonies. -
Declaratory Act
a. The law repealed the stamp act and parliament declared they had a right to rule and tax the colonies. -
Townshend Acts
a. Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshend
b. This law taxed lead, glass, paper and tea from England. During this time the writ of assistance took place. Where soldiers could go into the colonist house and search for any smuggled goods without a warrant.
c. To help pay off war debt
d. The colonies started to boycott these items and then later on Britain repealed all of them but the Tea Act. -
Boston Massacre
~ In Boston on March 5, 1770 an argument between a small group of colonist and British Private Hugh White got violent very quickly
~ There was snowballs being thrown at the British officers and then the British opened fired on the unarmed colonist.
~ Five people died all together but Crispus Attucks was the first to be killed at the Boston Massacre. -
Boston Tea Party
a. The Sons of Liberty was responsible for the Boston Tea Party
b. Samuel Adams
c. The Boston Tea Party was a rebel led by the Sons of Liberty dressed as Natives to dump all the tea in the Harbor. They wasted Millions of dollars of tea.
d. The British passed the Intolerable Acts to shut down the Boston Harbor. -
Intolerable Acts
a. Merchants were directly affected because it shut down the harbor.
b. There were four laws and the first was the Boston Port Bill that shut down the Harbor. Second was the law that no British Soldier could be tried for any of his crime in the colonies. Massachusetts could not have town meetings for a year. Also expanded Canada in the land of the colonies.
c. The First Continental Congress formed and stated no military action unless we are attacked. Also persuaded them to form militias. -
Quebec Act
a. Established a permanent government in Canada and gave the French religious freedom and restored them from the civil law.
b. They did not like this because they just fought tem in the French and Indian war. They thought it was unfair and that they shouldn't help them after fighting them. -
The First Continental Congress
a. 56 delegates from all the colonies except Georgia. Patrick Henry, George Washington, John Adams, and John Jay was among this group.
b. They met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia.
c. The purpose of meeting was to talk about all the acts the parliament had put upon them.
d. This resulted into persuading the colonies to form militias but to not start anything and wait until they attack. They said they would meet again -
Battle of Bunker Hill
a. Masschusetts
b. The colonist were on top of the hill and defended themselves for two charges from the British. On the third charge the British won.
c. The British won but wasn't a complete defeat for the colonies.
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Common Sense
a. Written by Thomas Paine
b. It explained how the colonies would be better off breaking off from their mother country and how their economy would strive without their laws.
c. It helped persuade colonist to fight for their Independence.
