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french & indian war started
the french and indian war pretty much wiped out the french in america and gian both spain and britain much more land, but even though britain now had more land they were not aloud to cross the appilation mountins because of conflics with natives. -
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french and indian war
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trety of paris
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french and indian war end
french is kicked out of america and spain & britain share land along the mississippi. -
proclomation of 1763
stated colonies could not settle west of appalachian mountians, this land was to stay the natives. angered colonist ignored this law. -
sugar act
placed tax on sugar, molasses, and other products shipped to colonies. -
stamp act
required all legal and commmercial documents to carry an official stamp, showing tax had been paid. -
townshend act
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writs of assisstance
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boston massacre
the boston massacre was used as a huge propaganda against the british. -
quartering act
this act forced commeners to house soldiers, they also did this to keep people from crossing the appilation moutians. -
tea act/ boston tea party
the act granted the british east india company tea a monopoly on tea sales in the colonies. the tea act was the final take the colonies had to do something. some of the son of liberty people got togather dressed up like indians and raided a british tea ship, they dumped all the tea and cargo they could off bored. -
intolerable acts
thethe king british had spent large sums of money on the french and indian war. therefore afterwards the king placed imense taxes of the colonies. he taxed the tea, papper, and any goods that came to the colonies from britain. -
1st continental congress
the 1st continental congress met in carpenters hall, the colonies prestented that they were untited to show a combined authority to great britan. -
battles of lexington
the british suffored exstenivey. the ameriacan's considered it an encouraging star to the war. -
2nd continental congress
it was agreed that they would form a conitntal army, so they could stand against the british army. -
bunker hill
the british drove the american's from the charlston pennisula. this was at the time consdered a heavy loss. -
Ft. ticonderoga
whoever controlled ticonderoga controlled a continent. this battle was considered america's 1st major win. -
declaration of independence
Thomas Jeferson drafted this most famous and charished symbol of liberty. Jeferson summerized the philospher's ideas in "the self-evident truths" and wrote a list of grievenses against the king in order to justify before breaking the ties between the colonies and the mother country. -
commen sense published
thomas paine's pamphlet challenged the authority of the british goverment and royal monarchy, it openly asked for independence from great britain from, to the people. -
battle of trenton
this battle was a resounding physical and very moral victory for washington and the american's. -
battle of new york
in an effort to reacaptuer New york the british 1st drove washington off long island, then from lower harmlem. Washinton retreated to white plains where he was able to hold off the british. they eventully outmonervered him and forced him to retreat to new jersey. -
battle of prineton
the americans escaped cornwallis's encirculing move, at princeton new jersery. -
battle of saratoga
this was a major tuning point for they war. the americans not only won but the french and spain had become allies with the americans in this battle. -
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winter at vallt forge
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battle at yorktown
out number more than 2-to-1 general cornwallis and his army faut for 3 days until finaly surrendering to general washington. cornwallis was a pretty high general so his surrender was signified as britian's surrender. yorktown was officaly the last battle of the independence war. -
treaty of paris 1783
stated that america now owened all land east of mississippi river and they had to give back all land taken from the loyalist.
