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French and Indian War
-Final Colonial war
-Seven years
-French and Indians vs. Englishmen
-Money was pulled from colonies to fund the war
-Colonists didn't want the war -
Pre-Colonial Life
-Taxes
-Boston tea party
-Sugar Act (1764)
-Stamp Act
-Townshend Act -
Boston Massacre
-Started with colonists throwing a snowball at the red coats
-Five men were shot by British Solidiers
-Called the 'bloody massacre'
-Made to seem worse than it truly was
-Paul Revere drew the "bloody massacre'' -
Intolerable Acts
-Quartering Act
-Boston Port Act
-Administering of Justice Act
-Massachusetts Government Act
-Tea Act
-Quebec Act -
Tea Party
-Led by Samuel Adams
-Taxed Enough Already
-Chinese tea from East India Tea Company
-Boston, Massachussetts -
First Continental Congress
-List of greivences, also known as the Declaration of Rights (sent to the King)
-Boycot of British goods
-Met in the Carpenters Hall, which was also the seat of Philadelphia Congress
-Peyton Randolph was elected president of the convention
-Consideration of possible independence from Britain began -
Lexington and Concord
-British wanted to capture Samuel Adams and John Hancock
-Paul Revere warned Samuel Adams and John Hancock
-First battle -
Second Continental Congress
-Articles of Confederation
-Declaration of Independence
-Unalienable rights: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness -
Revolutionary War
-Known as the war of Independence
-Between Britain and the 13 colonies
-Help from France
-British had significant military disadvantages (distance:everything had to be shipped across ocean)