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English forced trade with the colonies. selling of raw materials and finished goods could only be done between the colonies and England. -
This was the act of Britain putting a tax on molasses because it started to become a popular product. They did this to get money back from the war. -
Where the first war of the French and Indian war was. -
The french and british both wanted something from the new world and they had a nine year war. The french became friends with the Native Americans and they helped them in the war. Britan won the war and Spain and Britain became the new rulers of North America. -
Parliment lowered the tax price on molasses because they thought it would stop smugglers and the colonists would buy more molasses. Also parliment made a law that officers could seize smuggled goods without going to court. -
Parliment passed a law that made people put stamps on all printed materials. These stamps taxes the people and they were very unhappy. They thought they were being taxed to death. -
Tax on Glas, lead, paint, paper, and tea -
kids were making fun of soilders and it became a huge crowd. Eventually the crowd started throwing snowballs, ice and clam shells. One of the soilders got hit in the head by something that caused him to fall and for his gun to fired which caused the other soilders to fire at the crowd. 5 lay dead and 3 were injured. -
A protest because of the tax on tea that eventially lead to people throwing tea into the harbor. -
the kings attempt to "master" the colonies -
The soilders were allowed to stay anybodys house no matter what. -
a government for Canada was created and extended its territory all the way south to the Ohio River
The colonists were trapped -
Thomas Gage came to Boston to replace thomas hutchenson as the royal governer of massachusetts -
12 out of the 13 colonies me to discuss americas future because of growing british agression -
Paul revere rode to alert the american colony miltia before the battels of lexington and concord. -
the start of the american revolution, The colonists outnumbered and defeated the red coats as a way to earn their independence. -
The colonists captured Fort Ticonderoga giving them the high ground -
This is when the coninential army was established and they elected George Washington as a commander in chief. -
The colonists lost this battle but they proved that they weren't gonna quit. -
A petition is a formal request
The olive branch petition assured the king george III that the colonist wanted peace, and asked to protect their rights
The king rejected the petition, and prepared for war
He hired more than 30,000 German mercenaries called Hessians to fight alongside british troops -
Britain wanted to prove to the americans that they were more supperior, they wanted the americans to know they could tax them. -
Washington arrived in the boston area in july 1775, Shortly after the battle of bunker hill
He tasked general Henry Knox with moving almost 60 cannons 300 miles - FT. Ticonderoga to boston - through the winter of 1775
By spring March, 17th, 1776 Washington thought his troops were ready to fight, and the cannons made it from northern New york. -
The King hired more than 30,000 German mercenaries called Hessians to fight alongside british troops -
July 4th 1776, 56 degelates signed the declaration of independence, john hancock wrote his name so large, so that the king could read his name without glasses