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the British forced trade with the colonies. selling of raw materials and finished goods could only be done between the colonies and England. -
the British taxed the colonist's malaises. and the colonists started to smuggle and buy from the French who made in the same area as the British do -
a young lieutenant, George Washington set up Fort Necessity and it got attacked. -
a war between the British french and the Native Americans. it lasted 9 years even though it is called the 7-year war. the British won. the official dates are from 1756 to 1763
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the British taxed the sugar and lessened the tax on molasses and they thought that this would help with smuggling and help with heir debt. they were wrong and their debt didn't go up as much as they wanted it to -
The Stamp Act was where the British taxed the colonists on anything that was printed making it so that the British had to pay the taxes. the colonists didn't like this so they boycotted printed things altogether they didn't want to pay these outrageous taxes. -
It was the British taxing the colonists on their tea glass and other things like that. -
General Gage takes over Boston -
the colonies worked together to tell Parliament that their rules were stupid -
Paul Revere road all across the colonies to warn all the minutemen that the British were coming -
the British fought the minutemen -
Benedict Arnold took over Fort Ticonderoga, with 400 men in a militia. -
the congrees come together to make a difference because they are tired of the taxes -
took place on Beerds Hill they beat the British it is called the battle of Bunker Hill because that's where the reserves were -
it was a petition that would be sent to the king to try to prevent war -
the British revoked the Stamp Act. and said that parliament could make any laws they wanted too -
Washington takes Boston, he becomes a leader. -
George the Third hires Hessians to fight -
The Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence -
I believe it was when the Sons of Liberty dumped a ton of tea into the Boston Harber