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Navigation Act
The Navigation Acts were set up by the British and it said that the colonies could only trade with the British -
Molasses Act
A tax on imported goods like molasses sugar and rum -
Fort Necessity
Was a Fort Build by Goerge Washington the French later burned it down -
French and Indian War
The French wanted Britain out of the New World so they started a war that lasted 9 years and the British won it was the first major global conflict the British would kick the French out of the New World but they eventually bought Louisiana from the Spanish later on -
Writs of Assistance
This was a new law set by the Prime Minister to stop smuggling in the New World sparked by the Navigation Acts -
Proclamation of 1763
As the Treaty of France said France finally left the New World British claims expanded to the Ohio River Valley and King Goerge Declared that British colonists were prohibited from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains this kept British control strong and British fur trade strong -
Sugar Act of 1764
This was to search people without consent to find smugglers -
The Stamp Acts 1765
A small tax on all printed materials however angered the colonies a lot because many newspaper companies raised their prices or went out of business because of this. The colonies later revolted -
Declaratory Acts
Parliament repealed some acts that made the colonists made but stated the Parliament had the right to tax the colonies even thought they had zero say in it -
Townshend Acts of 1767
After lifting the Stamp Act Parliament stated that all decisions and taxes were rightful "In all cases" and put taxes on exported goods -
The Boston Massacre 1770
On March 5th, 1770 a group of colonists mostly kids started throwing snowballs at the British Redcoats these snowballs turned into rocks until the Redcoats opened fire leaving 5 dead and more injured. Parliament later repealed the Townshend Acts this day sparked revolution -
The Boston Tea Party
A tea party, with the Sons of Liberty, got drunk (allegedly) and dressed as Native Americans and dumped a bunch of tea in the river -
Intolerable Acts
4 rules made by the British as a final straw for Boston but worst of all any soldier could occupy any colonists house! -
Gage takes over Boston
The British send over 3000 men with general gage to stop Boston fortunately history had its way -
First Continental Congress
After Gage takes over the Americans create the Continental Congress and basically plan how to stop the British -
Quartering Act
An act saying all British soldier has the right to kick out and take a colonists' home at this point the British were trying to piss off the colonies -
Quebec Act
The Quebec Act placed the borders of Canada in the Ohio River Valley traping in the colonies and starving them to death if they wanted to -
Paul Revere rides to Boston
Paul Revere sees the men coming and rides to Boston and famously says "The British are coming." -
Fort Ticonderoga
An American Fort taken by the British in the French and Indian war than during the revolution the British occupied the fort -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
A fight between the British (redcoats) at concord and the colonists had a battle -Colonist VICTORY another battle before that the battle of Lexington didn't go so well for the colonists -British VICTORY -
Battle of Bunker Hill
A very bloody and brutal battle saw the British attempting to capture a hill near Boston (not actually bunker hill) and succeeded making this a British victory but they lost 100 times the men but still captured this territory this was a very early battle and proved that the seemingly unstoppable British army was struggling against a insignificant Militia -
Washington takes Boston
After Gage took Boston Washington did a surprise attack and defeated Gage -
Second Continental Congress
this time the meeting had a lot of leaders from across the colonies and this time they wanted independence after a vote all 13 colonies voted for independence The United States of America was formed using a idea never used before called Democracy now the people could choose who ruled them they finally had a say in government -
hessien solders are signed into the british army
So the king George isnt happy so he signed these really aggressive soldiers from the German Empire to fight -
DOI
On July second Thomas Jefferson wrote a declaration of Independence and it went to effect on July 4th -
olive branch
After the DOI they sent the british a petition saying "we are an independent nation now you cant tax us can we be friends?" and the British said NO