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French and Indian war
This was the first battle of the Revolutionary War. The French and the Indians allied against Britain because they both wanted the Ohio River territory and Native American areas found there.
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Albany Plan of Union
It was made to create a government controlling all thirteen colonies. It elected representatives from all colonies to participate in meetings.
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Writs of Assistance
A written law telling an officer to perform a certain task. Officers in the colonies couldn't search a house without giving a reason. It was a tension leading to the American Revolution. Picture credit: https://malegislature.gov/Content/Images/VirtualTour/Locations/NursesHall/Artifacts/Web/JamesOtisArguing.jpg -
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Townshend Acts
Created by Charles Townshend, they were made to collect revenue from the Colonists. They put custom duties on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea imports. This caused the Boston Tea Party.
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Boston Massacre
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arch 5, 1770
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Tea Act
The Tea Act was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. Its principal overt objective was to reduce the massive surplus of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive. A related objective was to undercut the price of tea smuggled into Britain's North American colonies http://cf067b.medialib.glogster.com/media/6a/6a27063caabd14a1f4e855fa5cd046043cd8a13c0f20adc8ef6280eb32805c71/19576512-jpg.jpg -
Boston Tea Party
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They believed they had no obligation to pay taxes to a Parliament that they were not representative of so they dressed as Indians, broke open over $70,000 worth of tea in boxes, and dumped it overboard.
The British gave the Colonists more direct taxes because of it, leading to the Intolerable Acts.
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Coercive Acts
The British Government's way of responding to the Boston Tea Party, intended to punish the people of Massachusetts. Picture Credit: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Parliament_Stamp_Act1765.jpg/220px-Parliament_Stamp_Act1765.jpg -
Continental Congress
They wanted to show a combined authority to Britain and assemble a set of tasks to do. Each colony except Georgia sent representatives.
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Lexington and Concord
Britain lead a surprise attack on Lexington, planning to kidnap Sam Adams and John Hancock
Word was leaked and the Colonists were warned that the British were coming by sea because of Paul Revere’s lanterns. They were able to fight back.
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The Battle of Bunker Hill
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Concerned with growing unrest in the countryside, British General Thomas Gage, the military governor in Boston, dispatched troops in April 1775 to Concord to seize munitions being stockpiled by the colonial militia. While en route, British soldiers clashed with colonists at Lexington and then fought a pitched battle with even more colonial militia at Concord. -
Olive Branch Petition
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Second Continental Congress
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Declaration of Independence
The Colonists declared their independance from Britain on this day Picture Credit: http://www.founding.com/repository/imgLib/20071018_declaration.jpg
