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Columbus sailed to the Americas to find a passage way to India and China. Europe was able to colonize the new world because of this "discovery" -
Jamestown was settle in my settler from Britain in Virginia . They gained resources and made lots of money, it was the first successful settlement in the new world. -
The pilgrims landed on in the New World to settle, on the Mayflower after many people died on the ship on the trip over. -
The French, Native Americans and British had conflict due to land and territory. The British won and gained lots of land in the New World. -
Benjamin Franklin came up with a slogan " Join or Die". Which helped the British win the war. -
Ended the French, Indian, and British 7 year war and British gained 2x the amount of territory. 7 men signed the treaty. -
A proclamation(law) made by the British kind that the settlers in the colonies can't settle past the mountains. Settlers rebelled because the king has been ignoring them -
A tax on the British colonies for all the paper that they used. -
A law that the British soilders in the colonies would be housed and provided with goods. -
Taxes on glass, paint, paper and tea. -
A street fight in Boston were colonist threw snowball and sticks at the British troops and they opened fire and killed many colonist. -
The tea act was passed May 10, 1773 by Parliament which granted the India Company a monopoly on tea sales -
It was a political protest because of taxes on tea, so the protesters threw pounds of tea into the Boston Harbor. -
Four laws that were passed by Parliament to punish the Massachusetts colony -
The continental congress was a boycott were the delegates from all the colonies would have a secret meeting against the British crown permission. -
The second continental congress was to vote for freedom against the British. -
They were fought in Middlesex, County Massachuts in the towns of Lexington and Concord. -
They were fought in Middlesex, County Massachuts in the towns of Lexington and Concord. -
The Olive Branch Petition was a letter sent to the King by the colonist begging him to have mercy on them and that they just wanted peace. -
A 47 page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine which engaged the colonist that the didn't need Great Britain's supprot at that the should fight for independence -
A armed uprising in Massachusetts because of debt and trades. -
States had to vote to ratify the Constitution and the significance is when the did ratify it made America what is today -
A violent protest on a whiskey tax. The signficance was that this was first test of authority in the new country. President George Washington was the one to deal with it. -
The War of 1812 or the American war of 1812 was fought against the was fought in Britain it was America and indigenous allies vs Great Britain it lasted 2 years and 8 months. The war ended in the Treaty of Ghent and no body won. But it made peace with Great Britain.