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Albany Plan of Union
On July 19, 1754 Delegates from many of the northerly colonies gathered along with representatives from the Iroquois Nations in New York to discuss the plan. The Albany Plan's idea was to try and place all the British colonies in North America under one centralized government. It was also trying to gain and alliance with the Iroquois. However it was never used so it ended July 10, 1754. -
Thesis
In the Years leading up to the American Revolution the colonists were forced to bear a heavy burden put on them by the crown. The French and Indian War left England with a great debt and the colonists had to pay to fix it. The war left England in debt and she placed acts and taxes on the colonists in order to regain her wealth which led to the start of the American Revolution. -
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French and Indian War
The French and Indian War started on July 3, 1754 when the French along with Indian allies attacked the British garrison Fort Necessity, in which Colonel George Washington was forced to surrender, and ended Feburary 10 1763 when the Treaty of Paris was signed. The French and Indian War was just America's part of the world wars raging between England, France and Spain. In America tensions had been growing between the French and the British over land disputes along the Ohio Valley. -
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Land disputes between France and Britain had been going on for a while and the war was essentially going on so that France and England could expand there empires. During the war colonists and British soldiers fought together to eventually defeat the French. And although the colonists and the Brittish had enjoyed the victory of winning the war, Britain was left with a heavy debt and the colonists would have to bear the burden. -
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Battle of Quebec
The Battle of Quebec fought on September 13, 1759 was planned by William Pitt as part of his North American Stragety to win the war in North America. As instructed by Pitt British forces under James Wolfe arrived in Quebec at night and climbed a 180ft cliff in order to surprise and attact the enemy in the morning. General Wolfe's army was success and took the city of Quebec. Unfortunatly during the battle Wolfe was shot and killed, but the battle was still a decisive victory for the British. -
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Treaty of Paris
Information gathered from this sourceThe Treaty of Paris was signed on Feburary 10, 1763 ending the French and Indian War. As part of the agreements France was forced to give up all of there lands in North America. Also Britain gained control of Florida by trading it for Cuba with Spain. Also as part of the agreement Britain gained all French territory east of the Mississippi River and Spain gained everything west of it including New Orleans. -
Proclamation of 1763
After the French and Indian War Britain gained many territories that expanded it's empire, including lands past the Appalachian mountain range. Since Britain wanted to maintain a good standing with the local natives they closed off the land beyond those mountains off to western expansion so that the indians could live there in peace. However this deeply angered the colonists who felt that since they had fought and even died for England, they thought that they should be allowed to settle there. -
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This deeply angered the colonists who had fought hard to preserve that land for England and they didn't want her to tell them were they could and could not settle.
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Sugar Act
The Sugar Act placed a three pence tax on goods such as sugar, molassas, and lumber from foreign markets which people were purchasing from since it was cheaper then that which was bought from the British. This act really effected the rum distillers since the key ingredient in it was molasses and sugar. Many colonists were forced to purchase smuggled goods at a cheaper price until they got caught. <a href='http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/sugaract.htm' >Information obtained from this -
Stamp Act
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Quartering Act
As Britain started sending more and more troops into the colonies they eventually ran into the problem of having a place to house them and keep them feed, so Parliament imposed the Quartering Act on March 24, 1765. The act stated that households had to quarter British soldiers who wanted to live with them. This meant providing meals, beding and even doing laundry for them. This made many of the colonists furious because now not only did they have to provide for their own -
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families, but they also had to provide for the British soldiers. Also the colonists had no say as to wether they wanted the troops to live with them or not, if a soldier wanted to live with them then he could. The quartering act eventually ended on March 24, 1767.
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Stamp Act Congress
The Stamp Act congress meet in New York on October 19, 1765 and had delegates from nine of the colonies. The delegates meet and wrote a Decleration of Rights which stated that only the colonies could empose taxes on themselves. The congress was held after people became made that Britain was taxing the colonies without there representation.
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Repeal of The Stamp Act
Information Gathered From:After boycotting British goods and rioting against it the Stamp act was repealed by King George on March 18, 1766. The repeal was a huge victory for the colonies because it proved to them that if they were persistent and joined together to fight a nobel cause, they could achiev victory. The stamp act was a tax on many of the goods and items the colonists purchased adding an extra cost to them. -
The Declatory Act
Information Gathered From:On March 18, 1766 Parliament passerd the Declatory Act which stated that Britain had the power and authority to make laws and pass acts for the colonies. The act was issued on the same day as the repeal of the stamp act was and it was issued by the same man, the master mind behind the French and Indian War, William Pitt. The Declatory Act made official in writing that the colonists were not allowed to govern themselves, and it angered them deeply. -
Towshend Act
Information gathered from:The Townsend Acts were the idea of Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshend who was a member of the British parliament. The acts were designed to gain more revenue for Britian by taxing the colonists on items such as tea, paper, lead, and glass. The tax sparked great unrest amoung the colonists who resorted to violence against British tax collectors. Popular punishment during the time was to tar and feather the person as illistrated by the image. The tax ended on March 5,1770 -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre occurred on the morning of March 5, 1770 (my birthday) in on an alley way in Boston. British soldiers on guard duty were suddenly surrounded by angry colonists carry clubs and throwing snowballs with rocks in them and other items at them, and yelling and cussing at them. On accident one of the soldiers who was scared fired a shot and the other soldiers followed. When the smoke cleared 6 men were dead and a few others lay wounded. The soldiers would eventually go on trial with -
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John Adams as their lawyer and be aquited in court, after a long trail and investigation. Many of the colonists were outraged by the courts decision and tempers would begin to boil amoug the colonists.
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Boston Tea Party
Informational Link:On the night of December 16, 1773 men dressed as indians many of whom were Sons of Liberty stormed the ships stocked with tea docked at Boston Harbor and tossed it into the water. The colonists did this in response to the taxes imposed on the tea and if it was unloaded in Boston the colonists would have to pay taxes on it. The raid wasn't violent and nothing but the tea was harmed it was merely an act of defiance against the taxed cargo. -
Intolerable Acts
Informational Link:The Intolerable Acts were a series of laws that were made up by the British Prime Minister Lord North as a respose to the Boston Tea Party. The Acts were the Impartial Administration of Justice Act, the Massachusetts Bay Regulating Act, the Boston Port Act, the Quartering Act, and the Quebec Act. Many of these new imposed acts were ones that had previously existed and then were unimposed and having them back pushed the colonists even closer toward revolution. -
Quebec Act
Informational Link:The Quebec Act, one of the Intolerable Acts was passed on June 22, 1774, and gave the now English colony of Quebec the right to govern itself and control of the lands west of the Appalachian Mountains and North of the Ohio River. They were also now able to practice Catholicism. This made the colonists mad because Quebec was mostly French and the colonists had fought so hard for that land during the French and Indian war, and now the English were pretty much just giving it back to there enemies. -
First Continental Congress
Informational Link:The First Continental Congress was held in Philadelphia at Carpenters hall from September 5 to October 26, 1774. Delegates from every colony except from Georgia attended. The delegates meet to discuss and try to convince England of the wrongs they had done to them and to try to fix them. The congress unified the colonies and prepared them for the struggle ahead. -
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Battle of Lexington and Concord
British troops were sent from Boston on the night of April 18 in order to seize arms and ammunition stored by the colonists in Concord. When the colonists found out about the soldiers coming from Boston riders Dr.Samuel Prescott, William Dawes, and more famously Paul Revere were sent out to war the local townspeople of there coming. On the morning of April 19 British Regulars meet members of the Lexington Militia under the command of Capt. Joseph Parker on the green. The British Regulars -
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under the command of Major Pitcurn told the militia to disperse so they could pass when a shot rang out from somewhere no one knows, and the Regulars broke out firing on the militia killing some of them. After this skirmish the British continued on toward Concord, but now the militias of other tows were gathering together to join the fight, the two groups meet again at the Old North Bridge in Concord and another skirmish broke out. The British then retreated back to Boston, knowing that a
