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French and Indian War
This was a war including the French, British, and Native Americans; it occurred because both sides wanted control of the Ohio River Valley. "The paths to glory lead but to the grave"
- Thomas Gray -
Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 was basically a peace treaty between the British and Native Americans. The document stated that the British would not settle on lands west of the Appalachian Mountains. "....hereby to publish and declare to all our loving Subjects, that we have.....granted our Letters Patent, under our Great Seal of Great Britain, to erect, within the Countries and Islands ceded and confirmed to Us by the said Treaty, Four distinct and separate Governments....." -
Stamp Act
It was the second tax passed, it taxed anything paper: licenses, newspapers,deeds, etc. "AN ACT for granting and applying certain stamp duties, and other duties, in the British colonies and plantations in America, towards further defraying the expenses of defending, protecting, and securing the same...." -
Quartering Act
This act allowed British soldiers to basically invade the colonists houses and they were required by law to accommodate them.
"AN ACT to amend and render more effectual, in his Majesty's dominions in America, an act passed in this present session of parliament, intituled, An act for punishing mutiny and desertion, and for the better payment of the army and their quarters." - British Parliment -
Sons of Liberty Formed
Samuel Adams established it to protect taxes.
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Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a protest between colonists and the British Troops; it resulted in the deaths of 5 colonists. “Our country is in danger, but not to be despaired of......On you depend the fortunes of America. You are to decide the important question, on which rest the happiness and liberty of millions yet unborn. Act worthy of yourselves.”
- Joseph Warren -
Tea Act
The Intolerable Act was dwindling, except there was tax on tea; hence theTea Act which taxed tea. This tax led to the Boston Tea Party. "An act to allow a drawback of the duties of customs on the exportation of tea to any of his Majesty's colonies or plantations in America; to increase the deposit on bohea tea to be sold at the India Company's sales; and to impower the commissioners of the treasury to grant licences to the East India Company to export tea duty-free.'
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Boston Tea Party
The Boston tea Party occured because of the Tea Tax. Colonists got on a ships in Boston Harbor and dumped thousands of dollars worth of tea in the ocean. " was not the act of a lawless mob, but a principled protest and the only remaining option
the people had to defend their Constitutional rights.”
- Samuel Adams -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Act were a series of acts that raised taxes, example: Quartering Act. Along with this, the act prohibited trade on Boston Harbor; which henedered the colonsits from receiving a majority of goods they needed. "An act to discontinue......the landing and discharging, lading or shipping, of goods, wares, and merchandise, at the town, and within the harbour, of Boston, in the province of Massachuset's Bay, in North America. " - Boston Port Act, of Intolerable Act -
1st Continental Congress
It was formed to listen to the concerns of the colonies against British rule. " Give me liberty or give me death!... I am not a Virginian, but an American!" - Patrick Henry -
Lexington & Concord
This was the first war to spark the American Revolution. "Shot heard round the world"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
2nd Continental Congress
This was New England's attempt to send aid to all colonies. “British parliament had no right to exercise authority over us"
- Thomas Jefferson, in referrence to the 2nd Continental Congress -
Common Sense Published
This was a pamphlet wriiten by Thomas Paine in favor of America's independce; it was vrey influnetial during the American Revolution. “A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.”
- Thomas Paine -
Declaration of Independence
This was the article in which the colonies delcared independence from Britain. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal..." - Thomas Jefferson
