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French and Indian war
Britain and France never had liked eachother, so in the new world is was no different. the natives joined the french because of theree good relations with the fur trade.But in september of 1759 Britain took a decisive turn in the war. -
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American revolution
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john locke's social contract
Locke maintained that people have natural rights to life, liberty, and property. -
Treaty of paris
this treaty makred the ending ofthe seven year war between Britan and France. as well as France losing claim of canada, and having to give over louisiana to spain. -
Proclamation of 1763
A proclimation line along the appilachians which colonist were not aloud to cross. But over time colonist ignored it and proceeded to colonize the west. -
surgar act and colonist response
Britain lost so much money in the french and indian war it needed a way to gain it back, so they taxed colonist on sugar. tension began to brew between Britain and massachusetts. resulting colonist to break the law and smuggle sugar. -
Writ of assistance
it allowed british custom officials to search any colonial ship or building suspected to be smuggling goods. -
Stamp act and colonist response
this act imposed taxes on all written documents. but in may of 1776 the colonist united to defy the law. -
sons of liberty is formed and sammuel adams
A resistance group formed to organize the protest of the stamp act. with the leader ship of sammuel adams the protests continued and eventually colonist boycotted most of british goods. -
Declatory act
it repealed the stamp act and lessened the amount of money required for the sugar act. -
Townshend act and colonist response
act the taxed imported good into the colonies from britain, such as lead, glass, paint, and paper. in response colonist boycotted british goods. -
Boston massacare
colonist were taunting british soilders, shots were fired and eventually 5 colonnist were killed or mortally injured. -
tea act
Britain gives the east inia company special concessions in the tea buisness and shuts out colonial tea merchants -
Boston tea party
a large group of boston rebels dressed like natice americans snuck on british tea ships and eventually dumping 18 thousand pounds of the east india company's tea into the boston harbor. -
intolerable acts
king george out of anger passed these three acts.
- Shutting down the boston harbor.
-quartering act or letting british soilders live in colonial houses.
-Genral Thomas Gage was appointed the new governor of massachusetts. -
first continental congress meeting
In response to Britain’s actions, the committees correspondence assembled
the First Continental Congress. In September 1774, 56 delegates met in
Philadelphia and drew up a declaration of colonial rights. They defended the
colonies’ right to run their own affairs and stated that, if the British used force
against the colonies, the colonies should fight back. -
minutemen
civilian soilders who pledged to be ready to fight the british at any given minute -
continental army
the name given to the malitia by the second continetal congress to give the colonial forces a more professional name. -
midnight riders
riders who would ride horses late at night to warn all of the minutre men that the british are coming. -
battle of lexington
Eight minutemen were killed and ten more were
wounded, but only one British soldier was injured. The Battle of Lexington, the
first battle of the Revolutionary War, lasted only 15 minutes. -
Battle of concord
British soldiers lined up to march back
to Boston, but the march quickly became a slaughter. Between 3,000 and 4,000
minutemen had assembled by now, and they fired on the marching troops from
behind stone walls and trees. -
Battle of bunker hill
The colonists held their fire until the last minute and then began to mow down the advancing redcoats before finally retreating. By the time the smoke cleared, the colonists had lost 450 men, while the British had suffered over 1,000 casualties. The misnamed Battle of Bunker Hill would prove to be the deadliest battle of the war. -
olive brach petition
On July 8, Congress sent the king the so-called Olive Branch Petition, urging a return to “the former harmony” between Britain and the colonies. King George flatly rejected the petition. -
second continental congress
In May of 1775, colonial leaders
called the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia to debate their next
move. the Congress agreed to recognize the colonial militia as the Continental Army and
appointed George Washington as its commander. -
publication of common sense
Paine attacked King George and the monarchy. Paine, a recent immigrant, argued that responsibility for British tyranny lay with “the royal brute of Britain.” Paine explained that his own revolt against the king had begun with Lexington and Concord -
loyalist and patriots
Loyalists were those who opposed independence and remained loyal to the British king. and Patriots the supporters of independence -
declaration of independence
While talks on this fateful motion were under way, the Congress appointed a committee to prepare a formal Declaration of Independence. Virginia lawyerThomas Jefferson
was chosen to prepare the final draft by early summer of 1776. -
washingtons christmas night suprise
Washington risked everything on one bold
stroke set for Christmas night, 1776. In the face of a fierce storm, he led 2,400 men in small rowboats across the ice-choked Delaware River. They then marched to their objective Trenton, New Jersey -
red coats push washington across the delaware river
As part of a plan to stop the rebellion by isolating New England, the British quickly attempted to seize New York City.By late fall, the British had pushed Washington’s army across the Delaware
River into Pennsylvania. -
saratoga
Burgoyne wanted to meet a second army at albany to surround the patriots but he didn’t realize that his fellow British officers were preoccupied with holding Philadelphia and weren’t coming to meet him. American troops finally sur- rounded Burgoyne at
Saratoga, where he surrendered on October 17, 1777 -
Valley forge
Continental Army desperately low on
food and supplies fought to stay alive at winter camp in
Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. More than 2,000 soldiers died,
yet the survivors didn’t desert. -
French American alliance
he surrender at Saratoga turned out to be one of the most important events of the war. Although the French had secretly aided the Patriots since early 1776, the Saratoga victory bolstered France’s belief that the Americans could win the war. As a result, the French signed an alliance with the Americans in February 1778 and openly joined them in their fight. -
British victories in the south
At the end of 1778, a British expedition easily took Savannah, Georgia. In their greatest victory of the war, the British under Generals Henry Clinton and Charles Cornwallis captured
Charles Town, South Carolina, in May 1780. -
Friedrich von Steuben and Marquis de Lafayette
riedrich von Steuben, a Prussian captain and talented drill-
master, helped to train the Continental Army. Other for-
eign military leaders, such as the Marquis de Lafayette also arrived to offer their help.Lafayette lobbied France for French reinforcements in 1779,and led a command in Virginia in the last years of the war. -
British surrender at yorktown
By late September, about 17,000 French and American troops surrounded the British on the Yorktown peninsula and began bombarding them day and night. Less than a month later, on October 19, 1781, Cornwallis finally surrendered. -
Treaty of Paris
In September 1783, the delegates signed the
Treaty of Paris, which confirmed U.S. inde-
pendence and set the boundaries of the new nation. The United States now stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River and from Canada to the Florida border.
