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French and Indian War
This war lasted 7 years and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. At the beginning of the war, the French had a population of roughly 60,000 settlers compared to 2 million in the British colonies. The reason for this war was because England and France wanted control of the Ohio River Valley. evidence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_and_Indian_War and https://historyofmassachusetts.org/why-did-french-indian-war-take-place/ -
Relation between The Battle of Chancellorsville and The French and Indian War
The relation between these two battles were that they were both outnumbered by the other people they were going against.
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Proclamation of 1763
This war created a boundary known as the Proclamation line separating the British colonies on the Atlantic coast from the American Indian lands west of the Appalachian Mountains. evidence: https://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/1763-proclamation-of -
Relation between the Proclamation of 1763 and The Berlin Wall
These 2 events relate to each other because the proclamation of 1763 had a line prohibiting the colonists to go beyond the Appalachian Mountains and the Berlin wall was a wall built prohibiting people to go beyond it.
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Sugar Act
The Sugar Act happened to gain more money for the British. This act reduced the rate of tax on molasses from 6 pence to 3 pence per gallon. It also listed more foreign goods to be taxed including sugar, certain wines, coffee, pimiento, cambric and printed calico and regulated the export of lumber and iron. evidence: https://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/sugaract.html -
Stamp Act
This was an act of the parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp.
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Quartering Act
This is a name given to two or more acts of British Parliament requiring local governments of the American colonies to provide the British Soldiers with housing and food.
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Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a deadly riot that occurred on March 5, 1770 on King Street in Boston. It started as a street brawl between American colonists and a lone British soldier but then it quickly escalated to a chaotic bloody slaughter.
evidence: https://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/boston-massacre -
Tea Act
The Tea act’s main purpose was not to raise revenue from the colonies but to bail out the floundering East India Company a key actor in the British economy because the colonists had never accepted the constitutionality of the duty on tea so the Tea Act rekindled their opposition to it.
evidence: https://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/tea-act -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773 at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston Massachusetts. The American colonists were frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing taxation without representation so they dumped 342 chests of tea imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.
Evidence: https://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/boston-tea-party -
Coercive Acts
Passed in response to the Boston Tea Party the Coercive Acts sought to punish Massachusetts as a warning to other colonies. Tensions escalated over the Coercive Acts and the American Revolutionary War broke out the following year.
evidence: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-ushistory/chapter/the-tea-party-and-the-coercive-acts-1770-1774/ -
First Continental Congress
In response to the British Parliament’s enactment of the Coercive Acts in the American colonies the first session of the Continental Congress convenes at Carpenter’s Hall in Philadelphia. 56 delegates from all the colonies except Georgia drafted a declaration of rights and grievances and elected Virginian Peyton Randolph as the first president of Congress.
evidence: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-continental-congress-convenes -
relation to shots heard around the world to the assassination of archduke franz ferdinand
the relation between these two events was because the shots in both events both ended in devastating events.
evidence: https://www.doe.in.gov/sites/default/files/standards/guide.pdf -
Shots Heard Around the World
Early the next morning on the 19th of April the British reached Lexington where approximately 70 minutemen had gathered on the village green when someone suddenly fired a shot. It was uncertain which side and a melee ensued. When the brief clash ended eight Americans lay dead and at least an equal amount were injured while one redcoat was wounded.
evidence: https://www.history.com/news/what-was-the-shot-heard-round-the-world -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Congress managed the colonial war effort financing the war with borrowed funds and without the support of taxes.States were asked to contribute men, supplies, and funds.
evidence: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-ushistory/chapter/the-second-continental-congress/ -
Townshend Act
The Townshend Acts were a series of measures passed by the British Parliament in 1767 that taxed goods imported to the American colonies. It was named after Charles Townshend the British chancellor of the Exchequer who imposed duties on British china, glass, lead, paint, paper and tea imported to the colonies.
evidence: https://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/townshend-acts -
Relation between common sense and the emancipation proclamation
the common sense ensured independence which is basically freedom and the Emancipation Proclamation ensured all slaves free.
evidence: https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured-documents/emancipation-proclamation -
Common Sense
This is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775 to 1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. Writing in clear and persuasive prose Paine marshaled moral and political arguments to encourage common people in the Colonies to fight for egalitarian government.
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Declaration of Independence
The Declaration explained why the Thirteen Colonies at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain regarded themselves as thirteen independent sovereign states no longer under British rule. With the Declaration these new states took a collective first step toward forming the United States of America. The declaration was signed by representatives from New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, etc.
evidence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence