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navigation act
laws passed by England so they could control colonial trade. the act made coloniast trade with other countries -
treaty of paris of 1763
the document that ended the war between Britain and France over the Ohio river valley.this tready ended french power in north america and expanded british power -
proclamation of 1763
the french had left the Ohio river valley but the Indians where not happy. They later on attacked the British who were on their way to their families and homes. -
What was the stamp act of 1765
The British thought they were not getting enough money form the French and Indian war so they started taxing things like wills, diplomas, newspapers, Contracts, letters, and playing cards -
The colonies protest the stamp act
the people started putting "No taxation without representation" on their newspapers and formed a secret society to oppose the British -
What are the quartering acts of 1765
The British wanted to make sure that the secret society did not meet so they sent over 10,000 soldiers over to the colonies and made the colonial house them -
what are they wrist of assistance
colonist would smuggle stuff so that they did not have to pay the taxes so the British had a act to where they could search peoples houses for the smuggled goods. -
British repeal stamp act in 1766, but pass Declaratory act
The British see how the colonist react to the stamp act. So they repeal the act 1 year later but pass the Declaratory act in 1766. -
colonist protest the townshend act or 1767
The colonist protested this townshend act because they believed that they should not have to pay tax -
what was the townshend act of 1767
the king started to tax the people before they got there stuff so when the colonist found out they got angry again. -
Boston-March 5 1770
When the soldiers got there the people started saying stuff like "fire i dare you" and then one of the soldiers was hit and the head and shot -
Boston-March 5 1770
a single British soldier was protecting a British costume location and a mob came up to him and started yelling so the guard. -
The Boston Massacre or the incident on Kings street
when the soldier fired the rest of the soldiers also fired killing one person on the spot -
The Boston Massacre or the incident on Kings street
later on about 4 other people who were injured died and the British soldiers were put on trial for murder but was not sent to jail because the colonist were attacking them. -
First continental congress
Voting to ban all trade until intolerable acts were repealed -
The First continental congress meeting
All the colonies except for Georgia meet in Philadelphia in 1774. They voted to ban any trade with Britain until the Intolerable acts were repealed. -
Start of the revolutionary war-Lexington
the minutemen where warned about the British coming and they where ready in the field. 70 men waited for the British while about 200 or 100 British where coming to them. -
second continental congress
They sent a petition to the king -
oliver branch congress
the colonist tried to reason with the king so that there would not be a war but the king rejected their offer and sent 30,000 German mercenaries and more British soldiers -
Boston in 1770
in 1788 soldiers were ordered to protect and support crown-appointed colonial officials attempting to enforce unpopular British government laws and texes
