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french and indian war
The Treaty of Paris ended the and indian war, france and great britain fought for 9 years, the french lost so France ceded all of its North American possessions east of the Mississippi River to Britain. -
stamp act
was imposed to provide increased revenues to meet the costs of the British Empire. the enraged colonist did not like the stamp act and will throw riots -
Boston Massacre
Boston massacre was when a small group of the British army was threatened by a mob and opened fire and killed 5 people. The soldiers where charged with murder -
Boston tea party
people boarded ships at anchor and dumped some £10,000 worth of tea into the harbor, -
Patrick Henry’s “Give me liberty or give me death” speech
Convinced that war with Great Britain was inevitable, Virginian Patrick Henry defended strong resolutions for making the Virginia militia to go to war against britain -
battle of bunker hill
Some 2,300 British troops eventually cleared the hill of the Americans, but at the cost of more than 40 percent of the assault force the americans came out winning -
Decleration of independence
After the Congress recommended that colonies form their own governments. They got what they asked for and thats their independence -
washinton crosses delaware
Having been forced to abandon New York City and across New Jersey by the British, George Washington and the Continental Army came back on Christmas night by crossing the ice-strewn Delaware River and hit at dawn -
France and the United States form an alliance
France began preparing fleets and armies to enter the fight but did not formally declare war on Britain until June 1778. this happened because they made alliance with the US -
Treaty of Paris ends the war
After the British defeat at Yorktown, the land battles in America largely died out.,but the fighting continued at sea, mostlt between the British and America’s European
