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Promlimation of 1763
This proclamation did not allow colonists to settle west of the Appiachian Mountians. The British goverment feared the conflict between colinists and Native Ameriacanswould lead to another war. They also could not afford to pay British troops to defend the western lands. Colinists were enraged by this proclomation because they felt they had won the right to settle in the ohio river Vally after winning the French and Indian War -
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Road To Revolution
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Quartering Act
It was a cost saveing measure that required the colonies to quarter or house British soilders and provide them with every thing they wanted. Thomas age put most of his troops to New York. -
Townshed Acts
It suspended new Yorks assembly until New Yorkers agreed to provide housing for troops. They thought that goods that entered the colonies would anger the colonists less than the direct taxes of the Stampt Act -
Tea Act and the Bosten Tea party
Protest againts the tea act toom place all over the colonies. The Sons of Liberty organized the Bosten Tea Party. It was a group ofmen disguised as Native Americans got on three ships and threw all the tea overboard -
Intolerable Acts
One of the acts would close the port of Bosten until colonists paid for the destroyed tea. -
The battle of Lexington and Concord
This battle was during the Revalutionary War. It started when one side shot a bullet it was called "The shot heard around the world." From this day nobody still knows who shot that bullet. -
The Olive Branch Potition
Ity was an agreement that would fix the wrongs to right. Many patriots hoped the Declaration of Independance would pass. -
Declaration of Independance
This was a resolution. A commitie that included Benjerman Franklin, Jhon Adams, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston, and Thomas Jefferson all sighned the Decaration of Indipendance as a result of peace torwards the colonies.
