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Recovering From War
After war Britain was in Dept. Believed they had to defend colonist.
Which made it colonist fault and
left up to pay debt. -
Acts Of Union
The Acts of Union are passed by the Parliament of England and Parliament of Scotland to ratify the Treaty of Union. The Kingdom of Great Britain comes into being on 1 May 1707. -
Treaty Of Uninon
is agreed, on 22 July, between representatives of the parliament of England and the parliament of Scotland. -
KIng George Dies
dies and is succeeded by his son King George II. -
" The French And Indian War"
The French And Indian War:
This war was fought between the colonies British America and New France.
Both sides supported by military units.
The war was fought along the frontiers between New France and British Colonies.
War began over a dispute over control of the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahel Rivers. -
Brittish Taxation Increases
More unfair taxation imposed to “American Colonist “
March 22nd ,1765
In Georgia the Stamp Act was imposed to help cover cost for keeping approximately 10,000 troops in colonies that provided protection to the eastern states near the Appalachian Mountains. For safe keeping a stamp was stamped to all documents. -
Intolerable Acts
The government spent immense sums of money on troops and equipment in an attempt to subjugate Massachusetts. British merchants had lost huge sums of money on looted, spoiled, and destroyed goods shipped to the colonies. The revenue generated by the Townshend duties, in 1770, amounted to less than £21,000. On March 5, 1770, Parliament repealed the duties, except for the one on tea. That same day, the Boston massacre set a course that would lead the Royal Governor to evacuate the occupying army fr -
Declaration Of Independence 1776
By issuing the Declaration of Independence, adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, the 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain. The Declaration summarized the colonists’ motivations for seeking their independence. By declaring themselves an independent nation, the American colonists were able to conclude an official alliance with the government of France and obtain French assistance in the war against Great Britain. -
The War For Independence
By issuing the Declaration of Independence, adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, the 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain. The Declaration summarized the colonists’ motivations for seeking their independence. By declaring themselves an independent nation, the American colonists were able to conclude an official alliance with the government of France and obtain French assistance in the war against Great Britain. -
War and peace, 1776-1783
Benjamin Franklin rejected informal peace overtures from Great Britain for a settlement that would provide the thirteen states with some measure of autonomy within the British empire. Franklin insisted on British recognition of American independence and refused to consider a peace separate from France, America’s staunch ally. Franklin did agree to negotiations with the British for an end to the war. Joined by peace commissioners John Adams and John Jay, Franklin engaged the British in formal neg
