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Bacon's Rebellion
Cause: Governor William Berkeley refused to retaliate Native Americans on settlements
Event/Act: Bacon raised an army to defend the Native's land
Aftermath: Jamestown was burned down -
Great Awakening
Cause: the colonists traveling to the new world
event/act: religious revival that impacted the English colonists
Aftermath: everyone was creating a relationship with God -
French and Indian War
Cause: Settlers moving to North America
Event/Act: Determined who would control North America
Aftermath: Debt, England needed to pay off the damage the war created, so they started to tax the Colonists' goods -
Treaty of Paris
Cause: French and Indian War and France losing
Event/Act: Treaty that ended the French and Indian war. Its signed and France loses all of their land in America and England becomes the ruler
Aftermath: England is in debt so they start taxing goods -
Pontiac's Rebellion
Cause: British colonists expanded their military presence in the Great Lakes area during and after the French and Indian War.
Event: conflict between the British Empire, Pontiac's tribe, and other Natives
Aftermath: Proclamation lines and a bunch of people died -
Proclamation Line
Cause: Pontiac's rebellion
Event/Act: a British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide -
Stamp Act
Cause: French and Indian war, England was in debt
Event/Act: Tax on printed items
Aftermath: Boycotts of English goods and violent Protests -
Quartering Act
Cause: French and Indian war, England was in debt
Event/Act: colonists had to provide shelter and supplies to British soldiers
Aftermath: Protests to British presence -
Townshend Acts
Cause: French and Indian war, England was in debt
Event/Acts: Import taxes on commonly used items (tea, lead, glass, and dyes)
Aftermath: Colonists boycotted once more, the colonial courts refused to issue the writs, and then this led to more protests -
Boston Massacre
Cause: Colonist didn't like having British soldiers in their city
Event/Acts: British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston
Aftermath: 8 soldiers were jailed and tried for murder -
Tea Act
Cause: French and Indian war, England was in debt
Event/Act: Gives British East India Co. tax free imports of tea in America
Aftermath: Colonists boycott British goods in cities like NY and Philadelphia. This act also led to the the Boston Tea Party -
Boston Tea Party
Cause: The Tea Act (Britain repealed all of the other acts except the Tea Act)
Event/Act: The Sons of Liberty went to Boston harbor dressed as Indians and they dumped boxes of tea into the harbor
Aftermath: Intolerable Acts -
Intolerable Acts
Cause: Boston Tea Party
Event/Act: Crown tightens control of Massachusetts (closing Boston ports, passing another Quartering Act, and revoked colonial charter)
Aftermath: Unites all colonies in sympathy for Massachusetts and leads to further support of the rebellion -
First Continental Congress
Cause: The Boston Massacre
Event/ Acts: representatives from 12 of the 13 colonies met up in secret to form a plan to gain independence
Aftermath: America's Independence -
Common Sense
Cause: The Patriot Cause
Event/Act/ Litterateur written by Thomas Paine that argued for American Independence
Aftermath: The American Revolution