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French and Indian War 2
and appeared to be winning. But the British , under new management , ultimately won the war but at the cost of being greatly in debt. -
French and Indian war
The French and Indian war lasted went on from 1689 to 1763 earning it the nickname the seven year war. This war had been going on all over europe since the french and british were bitter rivals but now it was happening in North America as they were fighting over the area known as the Ohio river valley. At the war's beginning the French had many victories -
Treaty of Paris
The treaty of Paris was a document officially ending the French and Indian war in 1763. With this document any foreign military threat to the colonies ended. But for the French , they lost all of their North American territory. -
Pontiac's War
Pontiac's War was an open rebellion against the British led by the Ottowa cheif Pontiac. The Ottowa were also backed up by the Wyandots, Ojibwas, and Potawatamis. The native americans fought this war to stop British settlers from taking their land west of the Appalachain Mountains. This war gets it's name from of course the Ottowa leader Pontiac.This war effected the colonies greatly by making them stay in their homes with fear since this siege lasted for mounths. -
Proclomation of 1763
This proclamation was made right after The French and Indian war. It stated that colonists were not allowed to settle on land west of the Appalachain. The purpose of this was to calm the fear of native americans and prevent further confrintation with them. Many colonists objected and said that it was unfair so most ignored it and settled westward anyway. -
The Sugar act
This was a new tax on the British colonists which effected the trade on sugar and molassus. The British government passed this tax to help raise money to repay the war debt gained in The French and Indian war. The colonists hated this new tax , they felt like the government was restricting their rights. -
The Stamp act
The Stamp act was a tax imposed on the British colonists and it required them to put a stamp on all printed papers and legal documents and that stamp made them pay extra money. The colonists were offended by this tax since the British government imposed this tax on them instead of every colony decide how to tax itself. In contrast to The Sugar act colonists did not or rather could not boycott the paper products. Instead they wrote petitions to the parliment and they harassed officials. -
The Quartering act
This act made people board soldiers in their homes if there was no room for them at the barracks. The purpose of this was to keep a stronghold in the colonies by the British army. It forced colonists to care for British soldiers in their own home , sometimes they would be forced out of bed at night by the military. Of course the colonists were ahgast at this new act seeing the government was restricting their rights again. -
The Stamp act Congress
This meeting was held to protest against British taxation which had angerd the colonists greatly in the past few years. Some of the most important people at that meeting were Timothy Ruggles , James Otis , and John Adams. Them and the representatives from nine of the colonies were there. At that meeting they issued The Declaration of Rights and Grievances which stated that the British parliment did not have a right to tax them. -
The Townshend acts
The Townshend acts were named after Charles Townshend who was the chancellor of the Exchequer. This act was made so the British could still make money but calm the colonists down. This act taxed items such as glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea. The colonists believed that the parliment had no right to tax them and felt like their relationship with England was being abused. In April 1770, the parliment repealed all the townshend taxes except the one on tea. -
The Boston massacre 2
Crispus Attuckus, Samual Grey, and James Caldwell they also wounded 8 others, two of whom died later (Samual Maverick and Patrick Carr). Tough in my opinion calling it a massacre is a bit over the top since so few people in the mob were hurt. At the trail the British soldiers were defended by two famous Americans, John Adams and John Quincy the second. The reason that these men defended the soldiers was because they believed that every man deserved a fair trail. -
The Boston massacre
The presence of British troops was increasingly unwelcome in the city of Boston. Troops had been stationed there since 1768 in order to protect tax officials who were there to enforce parliment taxes. The actual "massacre" happend when a street fight broke out between a colonial mob of about 50 citizens throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks at a sentry. A British officer called in more soldiers who were also attacked, so the soldiers fired at the mob killing 3 people -
The Tea act
The purpose of this law was to ship all unused tea from the East Indian company to the colonies at a bargain price.But this gave the East Indian company a monopoly over the tea trade, killing colonial bisuness. -
The Boston tea party
This tea party was when a group of Massachusetts patriots siezed 342 chests of tea and dumped them into the harbor to protest the monopoly of The East India tea company given by the parliment. The group responsible for The Boston tea party were known as The son's of liberty. The British response to this was the Intolerable acts which ended self government in Massachusetts. -
The Intolerable acts
The Intolerable acts were passed to punish the colonists responsible for The Boston tea party. Another name for these acts were the coercive acts and 4 laws were apart of them. Some key points of theses acts were the boston port act, the massachusetts government, the administration of justice act, and the quartering act. -
The First Continental Congress
This meeting was held to show England that the colonists had some authority in governing the colonies and all of the colonies except Georgia sent delagates to it. From the delagates there were 56 people at that meeting.The two things that all of the delagates agreed to do there was 1. consider options for economic boycott and 2. petition king George the third. Some of the key people who attended were John Adams, Samual Adams, George Washington, and Patrick Henry. -
Lexington and Concord
This battle was fought when British troops were on their way to Concord on secret orders given to destroy military supplies that were stored there but the American army already knew they were coming weeks before. The first shots were fired as the sun was rising in Lexington. The British militia was outnumberd so the regulars took over and went to Concord to search for the supplies. At the North Bridge in Concord, about 500 minutemen deafeated 3 companies of the king's men. -
Lexington and Concord 2
So the British troops fell back after the battle. More British men came soon after and inflicted damage as they marched towards Boston with American troops close behind. The minutemen were well prepared militia men. -
The Second Continental Congress
In this meeting on May 10, 1775 the congress voted to create a continental army out of the militia and they appointed congressmen George Washington as the commanding general. On July 8 they extended the olive branch petition to the king of England as a final attempt at avoiding war. Before the olive branch petition there was the declaration of causes which rationalized and nessitized the colonies taking up arms to the British army.The congress was like a national government. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
At the beginning of this battle the colonial army started to build defenses around Bunker Hill and Breeds Hill. But they actually biult thier defenses on an earthern rebout on Breeds Hill. The commander of the colonial troops was a man named William Prescott and the commander of the British troops was a general named Thomas Gager. The British stratagy for this battle was recieving enforcements until they were 6000 strong so they could drive the colonial army out. -
Battle of Bunker Hill 2
They chose this strategy to show the colonists what they're up against. The battle began when the British found out that the colonial army was at Bunker Hill so they mounted their attack. After two more assaults on the colonial army, the colonial army struck back and caused many British casualties. The British won overall but at the cost of 800 wounded and 226 killed.
