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The sugar act
In 1974 everything got taxed like foreign refined sugar, and increased taxes on coffee,indigo and also certain kinds of wine. the taxes started to affect people and merchants the were close. The colonists wanted to say in how much they were taxed. -
the french indian war
There was a fight between great Britain and 2 its enemies most of the war was in Canada. The war lasted between 1754 threw 1763 (9 years). The british won threw war and also the british got to keep Canada. -
The Stamp Act
Every newspaper,pamphlet, Other public or legal documents had to have a stamp on it. The british government -
The Stamp Act congress
In March 1776 the Great Britain also started taxing things, They also passed the declaratory act. -
Townshend Act
1767 it was named for charles townshend, this new law could give them the right to tax things like paper, lead and other manufacture things. Eventually it stopped and the only thing they taxed was on tea. -
The boston massacre
On march 5,1770 shooting of five americans,an African-American man named Crispus attacks, and he was killed. The boston massacre deepens america. -
The boston Tea Party
People of americans were mad that they taxed the tea,they started calling themselves sons of liberty, 3 british ships came and there was tea on them so they just dumped it in a lake. -
The first continental congress
All of the 13 colonies had a meeting with each other, 56 delegates out of 12 colonies the reason why they met up to talk about the tolerance that is happening between everybody.They didn't want great britain to know that they were all meeting up to see each other. -
The battles of lexington and concord
April 9, 1775 that is when the americans first started shooting british troops ,had occupied Boston and were marching on Concord as they passed through Lexington. The americans had to withdraw from it. By the times the british got there the americans were waiting there with force. The british were forced to retreat. -
The second continental congress
They met with each other in 1775 right when the war started everything between started to get bad, the continental congress came up the continental army named the George Washington as the commander in chief. -
George Washington named commander and cheif
He was the first president of the united state, he also fought in the french and indian war and he was the commanding officer in the revolutionary war. He served 2 years as the president but after that he settled down with his wife Martha Washington. -
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Thamos Paines "common sence" published
he was a Patriot and American soldier and the only thing that he wanted to do was write he wrote pamphlets they also included common sense and also the crisis. -
The british evacuate Boston
It was the opening point of the revolutionary war, england became of the continental army. They surrounded Boston Massachusetts to prevent of the british army. After 11 months george Washington made the British to withdraw by sea. -
Richard Henry Lee puposes independence
When the british war began in 1776 a few of the North British colonists openly gave independence from great Britain. -
declaeration of iindependence gets adopted
All of the 13 americans and get their independence from great Britain. Thomas jefferson wrote it and effected by the continental congress. -
Decaleration of independence sighned
John Hancock, John Adams, and Samuel Adams. Great Britain's response was to continue the war.
