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French and Indian war
. the main cause of this war is land
. started in 1754
. George Washington and a small force of Virginia militiamen marched to the Ohio -
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Unit 2 Timeline
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Treaty of paris
. The Treaty was made possible by the British victory over France and Spain
. marked the beginning of an era of British dominance outside Europe
. It ended the Seven Years' War, known as the French and Indian War in the North American -
proclamation of 1763
. stoped british from from going west of the applacations
. stopped tradewith native americans
. british were low on supplies and couldent afford another fight -
sugar act 1764
. Under the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses
. This hurt the British West Indies market in molasses and sugar and the market for rum, which the colonies had been producing in quantity with the cheaper French molasses
. The act also listed more foreign goods to be taxed including sugar, certain wines, coffee, pimiento, cambric and printed calico, and further, regulated the export of lumber and iron -
stamp act 1765
. taxed all paper goods
. got repealed
. The Stamp Act was Parliament's first serious attempt to assert governmental authority over the colonies -
Quarting act 1765
. made it to were soldiers can camp out in coloninists homes
. This act was implemented by General Tomas Gage, the commander in chief of North America
. It was the duty of local legislatures to fund the expenses -
Townshed acts
. The purpose of the Townshend Acts was to raise revenue in the colonies to pay the salaries of governors
. establish the precedent that the British
. The Townshend Acts were met with resistance in the colonies -
Writs of assistance 1767
. In an effort to increase revenues during the latter years of the French & Indian War, the British government began cracking down on American smugglers
. permitted them to search warehouses, homes, and ships on a whim without cause
. Angered by this trampling of their rights, colonial merchants voiced their disapproval -
Boston massacre1770
. 5 people charged with attemped murder
. chrispus acctuks was murdered
. All victims of the Massacre, Crispus Attucks, Samuel Gray, James Caldwell, Samuel Maverick and Patrick Carr -
tea act 1773
. led up to the boston tea party
. taxed all tea
. reballed by the boston tea party -
boston tea party 1773
. dumped tea into boston harbor
. the result was the intolerable acts 1774
. Colonists objected to the Tea Act because they believed that it violated their rights as Englishmen to "No taxation without representation," that is, be taxed only by their own elected representatives and not by a British parliament in which they were not represented. -
intolerable act 1774
. The Quakers petitioned King George to repeal or end the acts, but he said that the colonies must submit to these English laws
. were laws that were really punishments that King George III put on the colonies
. He did this to the Colonists because he wanted to punish them for dumping tea into the harbor at the Boston Tea Party -
1st continental congress 1774
. met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia
. from September 5, to October 26
. All of the colonies except Georgia sent delegates -
lexington and concord 1775
. The battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in the mainland of British North America
. About 700 British Army regulars, under Lieutenant Colonel Francis Smith, were given secret orders to capture and destroy military supplies that were reportedly stored by the Massachusetts militia at Concord
. The combined force, now of about 1,700 men, marched back to Boston under heavy fire in a tactical withdrawal and eventually reac -
Ft. ticondergoa 1775
. Ethan Allen, along with Benedict Arnold, led a portion of his militia across the half-mile width of Lake Champlain to the base of the fort
. As the sun rose the next morning Allen and his men rushed into the fort demanding its surrender
. Taken totally by surprise, the Commander of the garrison meekly surrendered and the strategic fortress was captured without bloodshed -
2nd continental congress 1775
. It succeeded the First Continental Congress
. The second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence
. Many of the same 55 delegates who attended the first meeting were in attendance at the second -
bunker hill 1775
. "dont shoot till you see the white of their eyes"
. The battle is named after the adjacent Bunker Hill
. While the result was a victory for the British, they suffered heavy losses: over 800 wounded and 226 killed, including a notably large number of officers -
common sense 1776
. Common Sense presented the American colonists with an argument for freedom from British rule at a time when the question of seeking independence was still undecided
. written by Thomas Pain
. he structured Common Sense as if it were a sermon -
battle of new york 1776
.In 1776, the British set forth to subdue the colonies. They began the effort by recapturing New York
. First, they drove Washington off Long Island; then, from lower Harlem
. Washington retreated to White Plains, where for the first time, he was able to hold off the British forces -
declaration of independance 1776
. which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states
. thomas jefferson drafted it
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battle of trenton 1776
. after General George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River north of Trenton, New Jersey
. After a brief battle, nearly the entire Hessian force was captured
. The battle significantly boosted the Continental Army's flagging morale, and inspired reenlistments -
battle of princeton 1777
. Seeing Cadwalader’s men coming up Mawhood fell back to the support of his guns and with their discharges of grape shot dispersed the advancing Americans
. General Washington rode up and attempted to rally the survivors of the two brigades, but without success
. Some of the 55th fell back in the other direction, towards Princeton where they joined the 40th
. The two guns that had accompanied Mercer had not retreated and were still in action -
battle of saratoga 1777
. The divide-and-conquer strategy that Burgoyne presented to British ministers in London was to invade America from Canada by advancing down the Hudson Valley to Albany
. General John Burgoyne had lost 86 percent of his expeditionary force
. The American forces at Fort Ticonderoga recognized that once the British mounted artillery on high ground near the fort -
winter at valley forge 1777-1778
. Named for an iron forge on Valley Creek, the area was close enough to the British to keep their raiding and foraging parties out of the interior of Pennsylvania
. Only about 1/3 of them had shoes, and many of their feet were leaving bloody footprints from the marching
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battle of yorktown 1781
. 5,500 French soldiers landed in Rhode Island to assist their American allies in operations against British-controlled New York City
. The French and American armies united north of New York City during the summer of 1781
. With the capture of over 7,000 British soldiers, negotiations between the United States and Great Britain began, resulting in the Treaty of Paris in 1783.
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treaty of paris 1783
. signed on September 3, 1783
. ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain on one side and the United States of America and its allies on the other
. Its territorial provisions were "exceedingly generous" to the United States in terms of enlarged boundaries
