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The English forced trade with the colonies. Selling of raw materails and finshed goods could only be done betwenn the colonies and England -
A Act that added more tax to sugar and rum. -
Fort necessity Was a fort that George Washington had the idea to build it. He did this because they were being attacked and needed a place to go to stay. -
The start of the French and Indians fighting the British for the colonies in america. -
This new tax lowered the tax on molasses imported to the Colonies the idea was that a lower tax:
Would lower the price, and encourage more people to buy Encourage Colonists to stop smuggling. -
A small tax on all printed materials
Newspapers
Wills
Playing cards
Documents -
The Townshed Act was the people rebeling agains the taxs of newspaper,led,paperpaint,tea. -
The colonists threw a club and the red coat and his gun went off and all of them shot and 5 dead and a few inquered. -
a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. -
The Quartering Act- Permitted the requisition of unoccupied building at first, to house British troops -
Quebec Act - june 1774: a government for Canada was created, and extended its territory all the way south to the Ohio River
The colonist were trapped -
The military Governor, Gage, of boston had an order from Parliament to seize weapons and arrest leaders of the Massachusetts militia.
Gage had learned that there was a stockpile of arms and ammunitions 20 miles northeast of Boston in Concord -
Delegates from twelve of Britain's thirteen American colonies met to discuss America's future under growing British aggression. -
He ran around on a houces to worn everone that the british are coming. -
Due to Revere and Dawes warning, 70 minutemen were waiting for the 700 English Redcoats the morning of April 19th 1775
Realizing that they were badly outnumbered, the Minutemen were about to break…..
And unknown shot was fired, and both sides engaged
When the smoke cleared, 8 Minutemen lay dead. Few weapons were found in Lexington -
Cannons captured at Fort Ticonderoga would be used during the successful Siege of Boston the following spring. Because of its location, the fort would also serve as a staging ground for Continental troops before their planned invasion of British-held territory in Canada. -
After seeing this and forming a plan, the British attacked the next day
Redcoats assembled at the foot of Breed’s Hill, with fixed bayonets, and charged the hill
The Militia was low on ammunition, and so Colonel William Prescott gave the order,’ “don't fire until you see the whites of the eyes”.
The British troops were successfully repealed two times by this battle plan -
It was the group of leaders who worked to create the Declaration of Independence. -
It was the Act to stop the stamp act. -
the Boston Tea Party was when the colonies were done with the taxs and threw over tea into the ocean.