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Ryan Lashuk
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Ben Franklin's "Join or Die"
Ben Franklin's "Join or Die" poster was a poster of a chopped up snake with the abreviations for most of the colonies on it and it was a message to the colonists that meant they can not work everything out or be their own country if they do not work together just like a chopped up snake wouldn't work. -
The French and Indian War
The final Colonial War was the French and Indian War, which is the name given to the American theater of a massive conflict involving Austria, England, France, Great Britain, Prussia, and Sweden called the Seven Years War. -
The Quartering Act
The Quartering Act was an act passed by British Parliament to ensure that British soldiers would be properly billeted and fed during their times of service in the North American Colonies. In fact, Parliament passed two separate Quartering Acts, one in 1765 and another in 1774, and both became serious bones of contention among the Colonists. In fact, the Quartering Act was found so offensive that specific references were made to it in the Declaration of Independence and the American Constitution. -
The Intolerable Acts
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The Stamp Act
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Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars on March 5, 1770. It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts in October 1768 to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed by the Townshend Acts. -
The Boston Tea Party
The patriots dressed as Mohawk Indians then they climbed up on British ships and dumped British goods in the Boston Harbor. -
Meeting of the First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from twelve British North American colonies that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. It was called in response to the passage of the Coercive Acts (also known as Intolerable Acts by the Colonial Americans) by the British Parliament. The Intolerable Acts had punished Boston for the Boston Tea Party. -
The Battles of Lexington and Concord
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The Formation of the Continental Army
All thirteen colonies agreed that they could not fight against the official British army with only militias and the Minutemen so they decided to make their own professional army. -
Meeting of the Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting on May 10, 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. It succeeded the First Continental Congress, which met between September 5, 1774 and October 26, 1774, also in Philadelphia. The second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence -
The Olive Branch Petition
The colonists sent the British Parliament a Olive Branch petition which means they offered peace with the British but the British rejected it. -
Thomas Paine "Common Sense"
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Signing of the Declaration of Independence
The signing of the Declarstion of Independence was when the colonists signed a declaration for independence against the British. -
The Articles of Confederation
Articles of Confederation, first U.S. constitution (1781–89), which served as a bridge between the initial government by the Continental Congress of the Revolutionary period and the federal government provided under the U.S. Constitution of 1787. Because the experience of overbearing British central authority was vivid in colonial minds, the drafters of the Articles deliberately established a confederation of sovereign states. -
Treaty of Paris 1783
The Treaty of Paris ended the Revolutionary War between Great Britain and the United States, recognized American independence and established borders for the new nation.
