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Ft. Necessity
In the sprin of 1754, Deinwiddie made Washington a lieutenant colonel and sent him back to the Ohio county with a militia-a group of civilians trained to fight in emergencies-of 150 men. The militia had instrutions to build a fort where the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers meet to form the Ohio River-the site of present-day Pittsburgh. -
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French and Indian War
- French And British
- They got mad when the British settlers started moving on the French and Indians land.
- British. Frances Land.
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Albany Plan of Union
They wanted to find a way for the colonies to defeat themselves against the French . They also hoped to persuade the Iroquois to take their side against the French. An elected legislature would govern these colonies and would have the power to collect taxes,raise troops, and regulate trade. Not a single colonial assembly approved the plan. None of colonies were willing to give up any. -
Washington's Defeat at Ft. Duquense
France Builds Ft. Duquense. The attack on Fort Duquesne was part of a large-scale British expedition with 6,000 troops led by General John Forbes to drive the French out of the contested Ohio Country (the upper Ohio River Valley) and clear the way for an invasion of Canada. Forbes ordered Major James Grant of the 1st Highland Regiment to reconnoiter the area with 850 men. When Grant proceeded to attack the French position, his force was outmanouevred, surrounded, and largely destroyed by the Fre -
Treaty of Paris
France was permitted to keep some of its sugar-production islands in the West Indies, but it was forced to give Canada and cost of its land east of the Mississippi River to Great Britain. From Spain, France's ally, Great Britain gained Flordia. In return, Spain received French lands west of the Mississippi River-the Louisiana Territory-as well as the port of New Orleans. The Treaty of Paris marked the end of France as a power in North America. -
Proclamation of 1763
The Royal Proclamation by King George III on October 7, 1763 prompted the organization and control of the newly acquired French Territory in North America at the conclusion of the Seven Years’ War, or as American colonists would make it the French&Indian War. Affected the status of native peoples throughout the United States. -
Sugar Act
It was passed by the British Parliament in April 1764 to raise funds. The Sugar Act also enforced stricter laws especially on its ports making the smuggling of molasses risky. This caused economic hardship at New England ports. The British West Indies had no problems with colonial exports in terms of undivided access. There was an overflowing supply of molasses as compared to the demand. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed. -
Quartering Act
Act requiring colonists to lodge and feed British soldiers
British Parliament met and finally passed a Quartering Act for the Americans. The act stated that troops could only be quartered in barracks and if there wasn't enough space in barracks then they were to be quartered in public houses and inns -
Committe Of Correspondence
The Committees of Correspondence were the American colonies’ means for maintaining communication lines in the years before the Revolutionary War. In 1764, Boston formed the earliest Committee of Correspondence to encourage opposition to Britain’s stiffening of customs enforcement and prohibition of American paper money. The following year, New York formed a similar committee to keep the other colonies notified of its actions in resisting the Stamp Act. In 1773, the Virginia House of Burgesses pr -
Declaratory Act
Declaratory Act, was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the sugar act. Parliament repealed the Stamp Act because boycotts were hurting British trade and used the declaration to justify the repeal and save face. The declaration stated that the Parliament's authority was the same in America as in Britain and asserted Parliament's authority to pass laws that were binding on the American colonies. -
Townshend Act
The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed, beginning in 1767, by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. The acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the programme. Historians vary slightly in which acts they include under the heading "Townshend Acts", but five laws are often mentioned: the Revenue Act of 1767, the Indemnity Act, the Commissioners of Customs Act, the Vice Admiralty Court Act, and the Ne -
Tea Act
The Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, would launch the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston. The act was not intended to raise revenue in the American colonies, and in fact imposed no new taxes. It was designed to prop up the East India Company which was floundering financially and burdened with eighteen million pounds of unsold tea. This tea was to be shipped directly to the colonies, and sold at a bargain price. The Townshend Duties were still in place, however, and -
Boston Tea Party
This famed act of American colonial defiance served as a protest against taxation. Seeking to boost the troubled East India Company, British Parliament adjusted import duties with the passage of the Tea Act in 1773. While consignees in Charleston, New York, and Philadelphia rejected tea shipments, merchants in Boston refused to concede to Patriot pressure. On the night of December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea. -
Coercive Acts
The Intolerable Acts was the American Patriots' name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. In Great Britain, these laws were referred to as the Coercive Acts.
The acts took away Massachusetts self-government and historic rights, triggering outrage and resistance in the Thirteen Colonies. They were key developme -
First Continental Congress
In response to the Intolerable Acts, 56 delegates from 12 colonies met at Carpenter’s Hall in Philadelphia to discuss a unified position and Parliament’s assertion that it could control the colonies. Georgia was the only colony that refused to send a delegate. John Adams drafted the Declaration of Rights which countered that America need not respect decisions by Parliament that involved domestic affairs within America. Furthermore, the delegates agreed to resume the boycott on British goods unt -
Quebec Act
Quebec Act, 1774. Quebec Act, 1774, passed by the British Parliament to institute a permanent administration in Canada replacing the temporary government created at the time of the Proclamation of 1763. It gave the French Canadians complete religious freedom and restored the French form of civil law. -
Battle of Lexington & Concord
3 American colonies and the British authorities, particularly in Massachusetts. On the night of April 18, 1775, hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord in order to seize an arms cache. Paul Revere and other riders sounded the alarm, and colonial militiamen began mobilizing to intercept the Redcoat column. A confrontation on the Lexington town green started off the fighting, and soon the British were hastily retreating under intense fire. Many more battles followed, and i -
Second Continental Congress
the Continental Congress met for the second time in Philadelphia. Unlike the circumstances during which the first Congress was held, the American Revolution had begun and American soldiers, known as “minutemen” had been killed. he delegates to the Second Continental Congress chose John Hancock, a wealthy Massachusetts merchant and chief financial contributor to the Sons of Liberty, as president. While Georgia refused to send a delegate to the First Continental Congress. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
The American forces learned that the British were planning on taking over the hills around Boston in order to gain a tactical advantage. As a result of this information, the Americans secretly moved their troops onto Bunker and Breeds Hill, two unoccupied hills just outside of Boston in Charlestown, Massachusetts. They built up fortifications during the night and prepared for battle.
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Signing of the Declaration of Independence
Congress asked Thomas Jefferson and others to write adeclaration of independence. They needed a document todeclare why the colonies had to become independent ofBritain. In this document, Jefferson wrote what manyAmericans believed about their rights. Jefferson wrote thatpeople have the right to live, the right to be free, and theright to seek happiness. The Declaration explains why thecolonies should break away from Britain. It says that peoplehave rights that cannot be taken away, lists
