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French and Indian War
The French & Indian War started in 1754 and ended in 1763 between the french and Britain.Most of the indians choose sides but most of them favored the french due of the British taking there land.The French and British were at war because they wanted the same land,the Ohio river Valley.The French already claimed the Ohio River Valley but the British expanded into the Ohio River Valley.This caused conflicts with the native americans,they were being pushed out and their land and it was being taken. -
The French and Indian War (continued)
The French won early victories and appeared to be winning the war. But then there war a turning point in the war where the British started to win the war and ultimately won the war. There was a drastic effect for the British winning. They had to raise taxes and were in debt. -
Pontiac's War
Pontiac was an Indian leader who started a rebellion because of British settling in the region. Pontiac's War was actually a rebellion were his tribe destroyed at least two-thousand backcountry settlers. They fought near Detroit and affected the colonies by killing a lot of their men and forts. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris of 1763 was a document formally ending the French and Indian war. Since the British won they had dominance outside of Europe and gained almost all of North America.The French went back to Eroupe and most of the Indians were moved out. -
Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 was a law set by the British that did't let settlers go past a line drawn across the Appalachian mountains. They made the law so the Native Americans wouldn't go to war because the British were in debt. Even though it was a law, the colonists went past it and most paid the price. -
The Sugar Act
The Sugar Act was a tax on sugar and other products for British settlers. They made the law because of their debt from the French and Indian War. The British settlers were angry so they boycotted the products that were taxed and protested the act. -
The Stamp Act
The Stamp Act requires that you have to have a stamp on legal or public documents like newspapers and wedding certificates. They passed this act for money to protect themselves in case of possible wars. The colonists protested, boycotted and signed petitions so they would repeal the act. Colonists paid extra tax for food idems but, The Stamp Act made it hard to pay for documents. The way they fought back was that they made a Stamp Act Congress. -
The Quartering Act
The Quartering act was a law that states that you would have to open your home to british soldiers. They did this so they wouldn't have to spend more money for the soldiers. The Colonists were required to cook,house and transport them as the soldiers please. The Colonists were angry but it was for protection against the french. The Colonists started to refuse the law and the requirments. -
The Stamp Act Congress
The Stamp Act congress was the first congress of the American colonies. This was held because the colonies needed a way to rebel against Britain. Nine of the thirteen colonies were represented. The nine people who were thier also known as the "sons of liberty" were the key people in this congress. They wrote a document called the Declaration of Rights and Grievances wich says that British can't tax or rais taxes without their consent. -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts were a set of acts that Charles Townshend proposed. The Townshend Acts was to raise the taxes in the colonies to pay the salaries. Items like lead, paint, paper, glass, and tea. Colonists were outraged with the acts so they boycot and rioted. All besides the tea act was repealed. -
The Boston Massacre
What started the Boston Massacre was that a british soldier and a young patriot were arguing and attracted more people. Young colonists started to throw snowballs at the soldier. To settle the crowd the soldier fired into the crowd and killed three men and wounded eight others. In my opinion it wasn't a massacre because only three died, for it to be a massacre there should be more than ten. John Adams and Josiah Quincy II defended the British officers because they deserved a fair trial. -
The Boston Massacre (continued)
The famous painting of the event of the "The Bloody Massacre" was made by a key person in the revolution, Paul Revere. -
The Tea Act
This act was made to raise revenue in the colonies. It was meant to help the East India Company because they wern't selling as much tea as they were suppose to sell so they would have a monoploly or, a control of a service or trade. -
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was an event of destroying amounts of tea destibuted by the East Indian Company. The Cause of it was from the taxes on the tea so the Sons of liberty Diguised themselves as Mohawk Indians. They destroyed them by throwing ninety-two thousand pounds of tea in the bay. The British reacted by making the Intolerable Acts of 1774. -
The Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable acts were made to and took Massachusetts of self-government and historic rights. Another name for the Intolerable Acts was the Patriot name for a series of punitive laws. There were acually four laws. -
The First Continental Congress
The reason of the first continental congress was to communicate about the intolerable acts and a reselution with England. Twelve of the thirteen colonies were represented, all but Georgia. Fivety-two people attended the meeting. They agreed to boycott British goods and to have another meeting wich would be the Second Continental Congress. Some faamous people attended the First Continental Congress like George Washington and Richard Henry Lee. -
Lexington and Concord (continued)
The British had lost two hundredtwo hundred seventy-three men while the americans had only lost ninety-five. -
Lexington and Concord
British were marching to Concord because they heard that gunpowder was being stockpiled there.British retreated toward Boston, waves of Colonial militia ambushed them. Shooting from behind fences and trees. The militias inflicted over 125 casualties and British officers. A minuteman is someone who part of a militia but is ready to fight in a minutes notice. At Concord American forces inflicted fourteen deaths on a British troop. They shot from behind stone walls, trees, barns and houses. -
The Second Continental Congress
On the day of the second congress they agreed to seperate completely break away from britain and to put the colonies in a state of defence. They made a olive branch pettition wich was an attempt to avoid a full-blown war between the colonies and Britain. They also made a Declaration of Causes wich says that they are ready for war. The congress ended up playing a big role in the revolution by making and signing the Declaration of Independance and by establishing the Revolutionary war. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
The Colonists built defences on top of Breed’s Hill, overlooking Boston. They originally had been ordered to construct their defences on top of Bunker Hill but Breed's hill was closer to Boston so they used it. Colonel William Prescott led the Americans to Bunker Hill and Thomas Gage led the British there.The British strategy to win was to join forces with British already at the battle and then march north up the Hudson River Valley. -
The Battle of Bunker Hill (continued)
They chose this strategy so they could isolate New England and the rest of the colonies. The Americans lost the battle by retreating because of loss of ammunition. They had to fight hand to hand combat and got outnumbered so they were forced to retreat. it was a costly battle in a way because the cost of the battle made the british realize that the war is going to be costly.
