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In New York twenty-three delegates met to discuss pressing problems in the Ohio River Valley. When they discussed it Ben Franklin worte the Plan of Union of 1697.
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England Built a fort called Fort Necessity,but then the french attacked they had no choice but to surrender. This was a small victory in the French and Indian War.
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General Braddock thought he could suprise the french in an attack. But the French and the Indians turned the tables and wounded almost all of his men.
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When the english built Fort Duquesne it captured by the French. On May 1st the English took control and renamed it Fort Pitt.
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This battle was the English defeated the French. This attack took the French completely by suprise.
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This was a series of wars between England and the French. It happened when England and the French both wanted very prosperous land.
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When word spread that the French were losing Poniac, a Native leader, took action against the English. But unfortunately Poniac did not succed because the British stopped them.
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The British Paraliment placed a tax on sugar, wine, and other important things. Parliament did this because they wanted more money; to pay the debts that were owned after French and Indian War.
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On Septmber 1st parliament the Currency Act. The act prohibited the issue of any new bills and the reissue of existing currency.
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Parliament an act that put a tax on paper goods. his was also to make more money For England.
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This act told the colonists to shelter soliders and provide for them. This act was to address the needs for the soliders.
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The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing stonesand sticks and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry.
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It is important to understand that the Tea Act actually placed no new tax on tea. But instaed of making the colonists happy it just made the colonists more angry.
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After the Boston Tea Party Parliament was so angry they passed the Intolerable Act. The government rushed a series of pieces of legislation through parliament: In Britain they were known as the Coercive Acts but the American colonists labelled them "the Intolerable Acts".
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The first Continental Congress met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia, from September 5, to October 26, 1774. The colonies presented there were united in a determination to show a combined authority to Great Britain, but their aims were not uniform at all.
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This was when the "Brothers of Liberty" dressed like Indians dumped forty-five tons of tea into the Boston Harbor. This was the rebellion against the taxes.
