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proclomation of 1763
The end of the French and Indian War in 1763 was a cause for great celebration in the colonies, it removed several barriers and opened up new opportunities for the colonists. The French had effectively hemmed in the British settlers and had, from the perspective of the settlers, played the "Indians" against them. -
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Revolutionary war
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Stamp act
The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed. -
Quartering act
This was an act that was passed by the king of Great Britan. Punishing mutiny and allowing better pay for the British soldiers and their quarters. -
Townshed acts
Taxes on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper, and tea were applied with the design of raising £40,000 a year for the administration of the colonies. The result was the resurrection of colonial hostilities created by the Stamp Act. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars. It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts in October 1768 to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed by the Townshend Acts. -
Intolerable Acts
The government spent immense sums of money on troops and equipment in an attempt to subjugate Massachusetts. British merchants had lost huge sums of money on looted, spoiled, and destroyed goods shipped to the colonies. -
Boston Tea party
A group of Massachusets Patriots protested against the American Tea Monopoly. They seized 342 chests and thew them into the harbor. -
First Continental Congress
The first Continental Congress met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia, from September 5, to October 26, 1774. Carpenter's Hall was also the seat of the Pennsylvania Congress. All of the colonies except Georgia sent delegates. -
Lexington and Concord
During the hours of April 19, 1775, British General Gage would send out regiments of British soldiers quartered in Boston. Their destinations were LEXINGTON, where they would capture Colonial leaders Sam Adams and John Hancock, then CONCORD, where they would seize gunpowder. But spies and friends of the Americans leaked word of Gage's plan. Horseback riders, such as Paul Revere, warned the countryside and the Patriots that the British were comeing. -
Declaration of Independance
This paper was sighned by Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franclin, and John Adams. This paper was a former draft of the Colonies intetions, on July 4th in Phlidelphia -
Battle of Saragota
5,895 British and Hessian soldiers under British General Burgoyne all surrendered on thier attack against Patriots after 83% of them were killed. This was a major tuning point in the Revolutionary War. -
Battle of Yorktown
General George Washington, commanding 17,000 French and continetal troops, led seige against british general Lord Charls Cornwallis with 9,000 British troops at at Yorktown, Virginia. This was one of the most importanant battles in the revolutionary war. -
Treaty of paris
This treaty, beween the american colonies and great britan, ended the american revolution and declared the U.S. indepandant.