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The 13 colonies had been left alone.
France was more concerned with trading.
The french also built forts.
In 1750's the colonists moved west over appalachian mountains. -
The treaty of paris ended the French and Indian war.
Britan claimed all land east of mississippi except florida.
Native Americans responded by attacking colonists. -
British did not allow colonists to set west of the appalachians.
The 1st time the colonists had hostility twoards mother england.
The proclamation was issued by King George the third. -
The British Parliment taxed anything that had sugar in it.
Taxed sugar and molasses.
The sugar tax did not affect many. -
Colonists had to provide food and housing for the british soldiers.
This was a cheaper way for the British Government to save money.
The colonists hated it but little could be done. -
Stampact congress organized boycott.
Taxed on every piece of paper used.
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Taxed on household items like tea, silk, glass, paper, and lead.
They Boycotted.
They couldnt take the boycott anymore so they repealed. -
Custom officers could search ships at will.
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The Colonists and the British soldiers got into a fight.
5 colonists were killed.
8 colonists were wounded.
Later, two british soldiers were convicted of manslaughter. -
The British Government taxed tea.
The company monipolized and controlled the prices.
Many people were furious because this was part of their basic needs. -
The colonists were furious with the unreasonable tea prices.
The colonists put 90,000 pounds of tea into the Boston Harbor. -
The port of boston closed down.
Colonists could not hold town meetings.
The First continental Congress meets. -
- Delegates agreed to ban all trade with britan until acts were repealed.
- The first continental congress met in Philidelphia.
- Each colony began training troops.
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- the beginning of the revolutionary war.
- Marched to Concord.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson's poem coined the phrase " Shot heard around the world." about the first shots of the revolution.
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- The other battle that was recognized as being the first battle of the revolutionary war.
- On the bridge outside of concord, british met by hundreds of minutemen, Minutemen forced british to retreat.
- Patriots used hit and run tactics, British retreated back to Boston.
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- The second continental congress met in Philidelphia.
- Established the continental army with George Washinton commandeer. -The olive branch petition declare their loyalty but ask for repeal of the intolerable acts.
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- British won bunker hill.
- "Dont fire till you see the whites of their eyes".
- Common sense increased the public support for American Independence.
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-The British wanted to get to New York and try to separate the New England States but they had to get through Fort Ticonderoga first.
-They made a plan to fire at the Fort with a cannon from the high mountain Sugar Loaf.
-The Americans saw this and evacuated immediatley allowing the British to enter the Fort and get by. -
Common Sense increased public support for American independence.
Thomas Paine was the author of common sense.
Thoms paine published a famous pamphlet that persuaded many colonists that the time had come to declare independence. -
-Thomas Jefferson was chosen to compose the document.
- Thomas Jefferson wrote the decleration in only a few days.
- Ben Franklin, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson all helped prepare the document. -
-There was a suprise attack that included George Washington and the continental army.
- The crossed the frozen Deleware river.
- They defeated 800 hessians. -
-George washington and the continental army have another suprise attack.
- The battle was in New Jersey.
- they had defeated 300 British troops. -
- British wanted to capture new york.
- British attacked washingtons army and infected heavy casualties.
- washington avoided capture.
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-This was considerd the turning point of the war.
-The american victory during 1777 led to the french becoming our ally.
-Burgoyne surrenderd his entire aarmy to the americans. -
-George Washington and the continental army winterd during 1777 to 1778.
- Many of washingtons men died of frosbite.
- Washington lost many men by starvation also. -
-This battle became the major engagment between the british and the american/french forces during the american revolution.
- This gave the americans their victory that ultimatly ends the revolutionary war.
- This battle is the final battle of the revolutionary war. -
- This treaty ends the American revolution between the americans and the british.
- Congress would recommend that the states return any property they had seized from loyalists. -The united states was independent.