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French and Indian War
Link text - England won
- It was a war between the colonies, France and England.
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Sugar Act
Link text - Taxes on Sugar by the British
- Bad for the colonies because it was an everyday item used by the colonists.
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Stamp Act
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Townshed Act
Link text - British taxed all good imported to the colonies
- Took money from colonies to pay for the French and Indian war
- Colonies Boycotted and rioted -
Boston Massacre
Link text - A confrontation between the British soldiers and the colonists that ended in violence
- 5 colonist were killed
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Boston Tea Party
Link text - The sons of liberty came together and dumped crates of Boston Tea in the harbor dressed as Native Americans
- 342 crates of tea worth around 1 million dollars today was dumped into the Boston Harbor -
Intolerable Acts
Link text - Closed the Boston Harbor
- The British closed the Boston Harbor after the events of the Boston Tea Party
- Made the Sons of liberty start to write the Declaration of Rights -
Lexington and Concord
Link text - First military engagements of the Revolutionary War
- Battle between colonist minutemen and the British -
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Battle of Saratoga
Link text - Was a crucial victory for the patriots during the American Revolution
- Turning point for the Patriots and the revolutionary war -
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Valley Forge
Link text - Place where Washington and his men stayed for 6 months during the winter
- Many people died from lack of food and hypothermia -
Common Sense
- a 17 page pamphlet written to encourage the colonists to break away from the Crown
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Battle of Yorktown
- Battle that ended the war
- British were outnumbered 2:1
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Treaty of Paris
Link text - Ended the revolutionary war
- U.S. now seen as an independent nation
