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Great Awakening
The great awakening was the widespread movement of the church meetings and sermons. The church leaders deeply feared the religion was declining and people had lost commitment. During this event the church and people gathered in open fields to hear the minesters sermons. Colonists responded by going to the meeting of the church. The British haveing there own minister, Goerge Whitefield -
French and Indian War
This was importent because it was a difference difference for Britins and Frances trade. The Britins wanted territory in North America to take advantage of the valuble fur for there trade. In result the colonists started a war for the territory. This conflit ended because the British won the war -
Proclamation
This banned colonial settlement west of the Appalation mountions. Native Americans were attaking colonists because they were trying to take there land. They got angry because they knew it was there land. -
Sugar Act
This was important because it helped pay for the military. The war had costed the parlement alot of its money. Parlament put taxes on the colonists on sugar,hence the sugar act. In response the colonists boycotted, which started in Massachussets. They boycotted which cost New York alot of money so New York stopped the taxation -
Stamp Act
The Stamp act made the colonists get a stamp for all papers. So colonists for the Sons of Liberty. They used forms of violence to scare the non-colonists. Parlament repealed the stamp act in March 1766. -
Townshend Acts
Placed duties onon imported glass,lead,paper,and tea. Colonists used boycottes and colonial legislaters which circulated a letter protesting the acts and sons of liberty attaked homes of tax collecters. -
Boston Massacre
Soldiers were sent to Boston. Colonists were killed in the massacare. This happend because of the townshend act.There were people gaurding a safe house when someone yelled fire and then things got worse. -
Boston Tea Party
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Tea Act
The colonists apposed the act. Most of the Townshend acts were appealed but that on tea was retained. This was the taxation on tea which in cluded coffee. -
Boston Tea Party
This was a taxation for the war. During this event people dumped tea into the boston harbor to show rebelion. Because of this the city had to close down the harbor until the tax was paid for the lost tea. -
Intolerable Acts
This is laws used to describelaws passed. The Boston tea party, this caused the city to loose so much money for no reason. So Boston had to make more taxes and raise them higher to keep from staying in debt. -
Battle of Lexington/Concord
This was to destroy the enemy Militia weapons. So this started a war between them. The war was fought back and 273 people on the british side died. About 700 British Army regulars, under lieutenant coloniel Francis Smith, were given secret orders to capture and destroy military supplies that were stored by the Massachusetts militia at Concord. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
During this event some enemy intelligence was found that the British generals were planning to send troops out from the city to occupy the unoccupied hills surrounding the city. In return to this intelligence, 1,200 colonial troops under the command to stealthily occupied Bunker Hill. -
Comman Sense
This was published to challange British authority. Paine used speak to the common people of america and was the first work to openly ask for independence from Great Britain. -
Declaration of Independance
This is one of the most cherished signs of liberty.Jefferson expressed the convictions in the minds and hearts of the American people. But the thought of independet freedom was thought by Jhon Locke. -
Battle of Saratoga
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Battle of Yorktown
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Treaty of Paris
