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Revolutionary War

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    French and Indian War

  • Beginning of F/I War

  • Peace Treaty

  • Proclamation of 1763

    Prohibited colonists from settling westward

  • Sugar Act

    Tax on sugar and other luxuries

  • Quartering Act

    Colonists had to provide food and living quarters for British troops

  • Stamp Act

    Required stamps placed on most printed paper in the colonies

  • Protesting the Stamp Act

    House of Burgesses, Stamp Act Congress, Boycotts

  • Declaratory Act

    Repealed Stamp Act - Parliament had rights to tax and make laws for colonies

  • The Townshend Acts

    Taxes on imports / Prohibited sumggling / Suspended assembly

  • Against Townshend Acts

    No taxation without representation / Boycotts

  • Repeal Townshend Acts

    Tax on tea

  • Boston Massacre

  • The Gaspee

    Colonists burned the ship

  • Tea Act

    Helped British East Indian Company

  • Boston Tea Party

    Dumped tea

  • Coercive Acts

    Strong restriction on colonies

  • Quebec Act

    Organized Canadian lands from France

  • The First Continental Congress

    Protest / no desire for independence
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    Revolutionary War

  • The Second Continental Congress

    Deivision between indepence and negotiation

  • Start of the War

    Lexington and Concord

  • Bunker Hill

    First major battle

  • The Declaration of Independence

    By Thomas Jefferson

  • Turning Point at Saratoga

    Gained French alliance

  • Battle of Yorktown

    Last major battle

  • Treaty of Paris

    Peace Treaty