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The French and Indian War
War broke out in 1755 between the French and the British. British were fighting because the British wanted to take control of the land in North America. The British needed farmland to support the settlers. When the British said that they wanted farmland that made the Native Americans angry because the land belonged to them. The French were winning the early victories. Ultimately the British won the war. A negative effect on the British was that they had to defend all that land. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris was signed on February by Britain and France. This treaty ended the French and Indian War and decided who controlled what land. The positive outcome for the British is that they won. An effect was that France left and let the British have their North American territories like the Louisiana territory, and all French territories east of the Mississippi River. -
Pontiac War
The Pontiac War was started in 1763 by a confederation of Native American tribes. The leader of this confederation was Pontiac, an Ottawa nation leader. This war was fought to gain or take over land that had been taken by the British. During this battle over 2000 colonists died. Colonists were banned from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains. -
Proclaimation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 forbade settlers from settling across a line that was drawn along the Appellation Mountains. The purpose of this law was to keep people from passing a line. The colonists didn’t like the fact that they couldn’t go past the Appalachian Mountains. -
The Sugar Act
The Sugar Act was known as the American Revenue Act. The British passed this law because they wanted to make money off of the colonists. This law placed a tax on sugar, wine, and molasses. They stopped smuggling so this made people angry. The colonists were very upset. The colonists petitioned and protested the Sugar Act. -
The Stamp Act
The Stamp Act imposes a direct tax by the British parliament on the colonists forcing them to buy stamps. The stamps had to be placed on newspaper, wills, licenses, and other documents. The Colonists didn’t like that they were not asked if they wanted to pass this act. The colonists knew it was an attempted to raise money from the colonies. The colonists petitioned and protested the Stamp Act. -
The Stamp Act Congress
The reason the Stamp acts of Congress were held was because it was a way of securing relief. Peyton Randolph was one of the main leaders who held these congresses. There were 10,000 colonists that were represented from nine colonies. The Declaration of rights is fourteen acts the colonists didn’t want taxation unless they had representation. -
The Townshed acts
The law was named after Charles Townshend who was in charge of the British treasury. The Townshend Acts put up a system to enforce the duties on imports. The British could no longer tax things from inside the colony they could only tax what was imported. The colonists were angry so they protested it and the tax was taken away. The only tax that was left was tea. -
Boston Massacre
The events that led to the Boston Massacre are British taxation, the Stamp Act, the Sugar Act, and in 1767 the Townshend Acts. These acts hurt the colonists by taxing goods. Yes, I do think this name is appropriate because the colonists were fed up. I don’t think the British should have fired back at the people who were not armed. Future American president John Adams defended the British solders when they were put on trial. He thought in a free country every person that was accused of a crime co -
The Tea Act
The purpose of the Tea Act is to prop up the sales of the tea from the East India Company. The colonists refused to buy the tea so the East India Company lowered the price of the tea and shipped it to the colonies and not to England first. By lowering the prices it was going to help the East India Company. A monopoly is a total control of a market for certain products. -
The Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were passed because of the Boston Tea Party the British were very angry at the colonists actions. There are four laws. Boston closed the harbor, and no more self-government, and they strengthened the Quartering Act. Another name for the Intolerable Acts is the Coercive Acts. -
The Boston Tea Party
The citizens of Boston raided ships from the East India Company that were carrying tea. They poured 342 cases of tea. The colonists group called the Sons of Liberty did this because they made a monopoly on tea. The British were upset about this so they passed four laws called the Intolerable Acts. These laws were extremely harsh and the colonists were upset about it. -
The Quartering Act
The Quartering Act was an act passed to make colonists take care of the British Army. If a British solder knocked at your door you were to let them sleep at your house and take care of them by giving them food and supplies. The colonists were upset about this act because the British were violating their rights. -
The First Continential Congress
This First Continental congress met in Philadelphia for the first time. This meeting was held to seek independence from Brittan and to end the Intolerable Acts. Twelve colonies were represented the only colony that wasn’t represented was Georgia. There were 44 people. The colony agreed to boycott British goods and to train a militia. Two people who attended were Gorge Washington, and Gorge Addams -
The Second Continental Congress
In 1775, the Continental Congress started the United States Army on June 14, was created by Gorge Washington. The colonists wanted peace between the British and the American colonies. They passed two resolutions. The first resolution was called the Olive Branch Petition. The colonists said to King Gorge that they were loyal to him and they wanted to stop the fighting. The second resolution was the Declaration of Causes. The colonists would rather die free than slaves to Britain. This was partly -
Lexington And Concord
The British army was going to collect dangerous weapons stored by the colonial militia which was called the minutemen. A minuteman is a citizen soldier that is ready to fight at any time. At Lexington, 77 minuteman were waiting for the British. When they were told to leave by the British but they said no and argued. Nobody knows who shot first, but it was the shot called the “shot heard around the world.” At Concord the British sent 700 troops to seize arms from the colonists. As the British we -
Battle of bunker hill
The colonists were going to originally build their defences on Bunker Hill, but put their defenses on Breed's Hill so they could overlook the city and see the British coming. Israel Putnam led the Americans to their early victories than when George Washington arrived he took charge. William Howie led the British which failed two times before he won because the Americans ran out of ammunition so the colonists had to retreat. William Howie tried running his Army straight up breeds hill but the -
Battle of Bunker hill
Americans had them trapped the first two times he tried. The Americans had Boston surrounded not by trained solders but farmers and worker. Nobody knew if they could hold off a trained British Army. The first and second time the British tried to attack straight up Breed's Hill but the British solders fell dead.The third time the Americans ran out of ammunition so they retreated. The British won control of Canada and the Americans retreated because of hunger and disease,
