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French and Indian war
Known as the 7 years war. Britian couldnt pay forthe price of war so they started to tax everything and that made the americans really mad. -
Stamp act
Britan couldnt pay for the price of war so they put tax on everything that was on paper. news papers, birth certficates, legal documents. -
boston massacre
a british solider fell and his gun went off and eveyone started killing people -
intolerable act
they couldnt pay for the price of war so they texted all goods. like tea. this was importanat because it made people mad so they wante to revoult and it lead to the lexington and concord. -
boston tea party
Britan put tax on all tea and made everyone only be able to buy the most exspensive one so people went on the boats and dumped all the tea in the harbor. causes them to pass the intolerable acts -
lexington and concord
a secret plan to go to lexington and capture colonial leaders and then go to concord and get weapons and gun powder. but someone told and there plan failed. -
decleration of independence
colonists explained how they didnt want birtian to rule anymore because of all they things they made them do. The decleration of independence is important because that is the first steop coloinsts took to become independant. -
saratoga
americans go to fight the british army and the entire british army surrenders to the americans. france signs alliance with the collionies. this leads up to york town. -
york town
general george washington lead american troops to battle the british in york town. the americans had a lot of good training and won the battle this is important because it was the last battle of the american revolution. -
treaty of paris
united states and great britian sign the treaty of paris and british troops leave new york city. this is important because it shows how the americans won and they didnt have role under britan anymore. -
contitution
a book of laws that everyone had toobey by.
