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George Washington
He was the general in the war. and later became presedant. -
French and Indian war
A battle for land between the French and the British. Most of the Indians worked with the French. The British won the war. -
Sugar act
Sugar Act. a law passed by the British Parliament in 1764 raising duties on foreign refined sugar imported by the colonies so as to give British sugar growers in the West Indies a monopoly on the colonial market. -
Townshend Act
The Townshend act was a series of taxs that was unfair. They taxed glass, paint and a lot of more things. -
Boston Massacre
Boston Massacre. noun American History. a riot in Boston (March 5, 1770) arising from the resentment of Boston colonists toward British troops quartered in the city, in which the troops fired on the mob and killed several persons. -
Boston Tea party
a raid on three British ships in Boston Harbor (December 16, 1773) in which Boston colonists, disguised as Indians, threw the contents of several hundred chests of tea into the harbor as a protest against British taxes on tea and against the monopoly granted the East India Company. -
Intorlerbale acts
A series of British measures designed for the Massachusetts colonists after the Boston tea party. one thing that they had to do was pay for the tea they destroyed. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
The first battle of the revolutionary war. The british troops went to the colonies to seize the colonists military supplies. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War.
