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This Act set up a law that made colonists sell their materials to England. Their law also made it so that they had to buy England-finished products. -
An act creating a tax on all sugar, molasses, and rum imported goods. -
George Washington, after driving out the French from Fort Duquesne, set up his own for and called it Fort Necessity -
cut the duty on foreign molasses from 6 to 3 pence per gallon, retained a high duty on foreign refined sugar, and prohibited the importation of all foreign rum -
an act of the British Parliament in 1765 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. Colonial opposition led to the act's repeal in 1766 and helped encourage the revolutionary movement against the Crown. -
The French and Indian War was a war where the British fought both them and came out victorious but were in some serious debt. -
To help pay the expenses involved in governing the American colonies, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts, which initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. -
The Boston Massacre was when there was a sentry that was having snow thrown at him, he called reinforcements and the mob started throwing ice, then rocks, then one sentry stumbled and his gun went off, then the other sentries fired. 5 lay dead, 3 lay injured. -
Permitted the requisition of unoccupied buildings at first, to house British troops -
The Intolerable Acts include the Administration of Justice, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Boston Port Bill, and The Quartering Act. -
A government for Canada was created and extended its territory all the way south to the Ohio River. -
an order from Parliament to seize weapons and arrest leaders of the Massachusetts militia. -
In September 1774, 55 delegates gathered together at Philidelphia to create a political body. These delegates named this political body the Continental Congress. -
Dr. Warren alerted Paul Revere and William Dawes, who were the Sons of Liberty members.
Revere and Dawes rode to Lexington, a town east of Concord, spreading the news-” The British are coming!!” -
A random shot rang out from an unknown area. When the smoke cleared, 8 minutemen lay dead. Few weapons were found in Lexington. -
Benedict Arnold raised a 400 man Militia to seize Fort Ticonderoga in NY, near Lake Champlain
This was the key location, but it also had a stockpile of military supplies. -
70 colonists faced off against 700 Redcoats fought through 2 waves and lost on the 3rd wave due to a lack of gunpowder. -
the final effort of the Second Continental Congress to persuade King George III of England to respond to the concerns of the American Colonists and to settle their differences amicably. -
The Declaratory Act, passed by Parliament on the same day the Stamp Act was repealed, stated that Parliament could make laws binding the American colonies. -
Washington fights with his troops in a bloodbath of a battle and wins back Boston. -
King George III hired Hessians to fight for him, he hired nearly 8,000. -
The Colonist leaders got together to sign the Declaration of Independence. -
The Boston Tea Party was a revolt against the Tax on tea and throwing the tea into the ocean as a protest. -
A group of leaders who worked to create the Declaration of Independence.