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Mercatilism was established in 1650 to help increase the self-suffeciency of England in gold and silver. There was a balance of trade that kept nations interested by having an amount of goods that were sold compared to the amount that was bought. For England that meant they there was more gold for them.
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English officials had to enforce new rules since they had a new colonial policy which then became sallutary neglect, which means that raw materials had to continue to board onto land the colonists had to keep on buying English produced goods,.
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The French and British were never on great terms with each other, During 1754, the French had built Fort Duquesne and the British had given 200,000 acres of land to wealthy planters. A group of milititamen were sent by the Virginia governor and they were led by George Washington, who had built Fort Necessity that was 40 miles away from the French's Fort Duquesne. Around May 1754, during war Washington had surrendered and defeated.
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After the French and Indian War, the Proclamation of 1763 was established to ban all of the settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains. The colonists were also not allowed to cross. The proclamation had also defined four new colonies. Two of the colonies were named East and West Florida, and then one off of the continent Grenada. The line had extended to the Atlantic Ocean of Quebec to West Florida.
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A tax that had a special stamped paper for any legal document that colonists have bought. Any colonists that did not follow this new las were tried in court.
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This is an act where you were punished for mutiny and desertion, and wanted better pay for the army and their quarters. Britsh commanders were able to become house soilders in private homes.
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A tax that had a special stamped paper for any legal document that colonists have bought. Any colonists that did not follow this new las were tried in court.
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The Declaratory Act allowed Parliament to make laws to bring the colonies together.
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These were indirect taxes on glass,lead,paint,and paper.
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An altercation between Crispus Attucks and some other dockhands ended with three men dead, one of them being Crispus. Samuel Adams had called this the Boston Massacre because Crispus was defenseless.
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This act allowed companies the right to sell tea to all the colonies without any taxes. Colonial merchants were cut out of tea trade, the company would sell the tea to the consumers for less.
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The Intolerable Acts were a series of other acts such as Boston Port Act, Masschusetts Government Acts, and Quebec Act.
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Approximately 18,000 pounds of tea was dumped into the waters of Boston Harbor.
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About 56 delegates had met in Philidelphia and made a declaration of colonial rights
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Thomas Paine wrote a 50 page pamphlet about overcoming the doubt of separating from Britain and becoming independent.
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About 700 troops had arrived in Lexington and came upon 77 militiamen. After fighting for awhile and searching for Concord for 4 hours the British were going to return to Boston which was 18 miles away. 2,000 militiamen had attacked. The British troops had abandoned their weapons, clothing , and equipment for a faster retreat.
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The Second Continental Congress was mostly endless debates about the colonies' independence.
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American colonists had voted on having independence days before, but became official with a document called the Declaration of Independence on July 4th.
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After years of fighting the British finally surrendered in Yorktown.
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The Treaty of Paris had confirmed U.S. independence and had set boundaries for the new nation. The U.S. had stretched from the Altantic to the Mississippi River, and from Canada to Florida.
