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French and Indian War
The french and indian war started in 1754 and ended in 1763.
They were fighting for control of much of North America.
The french were winning the war in the beggining.
Eventually the Indians won the war.
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Treaty Of Paris 1763
The treaty of paris is the agreement Great Britain and its 13 former colonies in North America, (now known as the United States of America).
A very positive outcome for the british was that they gained more territory.
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Pontiac's War
Pontiac's war is a war fought between many native american tribes.
They were fighting because many were dissatisfied with the British postwar policies after the French and Indian War.
The war is named after the Ottawa leader Pontiac.
British soldiers were on full alert and after several long months he gave up. -
Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 was an attempt to prevent the colonists from going west and passed the Appalachian Mountains.
The purpose of the proclamation was to organize Great Britain's new North American empire.
Colonists became angry with the Proclamation of 1763 because many already had land in the area West of the Appalachians. -
Sugar Act
The sugar act is an act that placed a tax of three cents on sugar that was bought by the American colonists.
Britain had a great amount of debt. In order to raise money they decided to tax the colonists.
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Stamp Act
It required that most printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London.
They passed this act as a tax to raise revenue for government operations.
It did not work colonial merchants avoided the tax by smuggling or, more often boycotting.
There was a big difference from the way the colonist reacted to the stamp act than the sugar act.
The colonists fought The Stamp Act by boycotting the Bristish that made them loose their jobs in the colonies. -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies.
The purpose was to allow Britain to keep a standing army in the colonies without having to pay too much.
It required the colonist to keep soldiers in thier homes.
The colonists reacted by protesting, threatening to kill the king, killing some of the soldiers, refusing to house the soldiers, ect. -
Stamp Act Congress
The Stamp Act Congress was a meeting in New York City consisting of delegates from 9 of the 13 colonies that discussed and acted upon the recently passed Stamp Act.
John Adams and James Otis led this. 9 of the 13 colonies were reprsented. The decleration of rights and grievances was a document that declared that taxes imposed on British colonists without their formal consent were unconstitutional. -
Townsend Acts
The acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the program.
The reason they were making all these taxes was to repay thier debt.
The act placed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea.
The colonist reacted to this by saying stuff like it violated their rights as British Citizens.
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Boston Massacre
The colonists taunted the British. They clubbed them and threw rocks and snowballs, provoking the british to open fire. 5 colonists were killed, including Crispus Attucks, the leader of the mob and a runaway slave. It really isnt fair to call it a masacre because the colonist put this upon themselves. John Adams defended the soldiers. He defended them because he believed everyone had a fair chance. Paul Revere made an engraving of the Boston Massacre. -
Tea Act
The Tea Acts purpose was to save the East India Company from bankruptcy by lowering the tax on tea they paid to the British government. This was meant to help the East India Company. -
The Boston Tea Party
The Sons of Liberty, dressed as Indians, threw 342 chests of tea into the Harbor as a protest or boycott of tea carrying a tax the Americans had not authorized. They were angry because they had to pay taxes to help pay for war and pay for future costs of stationing at forts. -
The Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were five laws passed to strip Masachusetts of its self governmen which created outrage in the Thirteen Colonies. Another name for the Acts were the Coercive Acts. Some points were that people were forced to house British soldiers, Boston Port was closed untill the East India Company repaid for their tea, and the colony of Canada was made larger. -
The First Continental Congress
It was a meeting to discuss the Intolerable Acts. 12 colonies had representatives. 54 people attended the meeting. They agreed to boycott British goods and have a council of safety for every colony. Some key people were George Washington, Patrick Henry, John Jay, John Adams, and Samuel Adams. -
Lexington and Concord
The soldiers wanted to arrest John Hancock and Sam Adams, they also wanted to get military. 700 British soldiers were sent to capture and destroy militia supplies stored in Mass. A minuteman is a militia who is ready to fight in a minutes notice. In Concord shortly after midnight church bells rang alerting minutemen of British soldiers. At about 7:30 the minute men retreated and the British arrived to destroy weapons and eat breakfast. -
Second Continental Congress
They voted to create a Continental army out of militia around Boston and voted George Washington as leader. The Olive Branch Petition signified an attempt at a full out war between the colonies and Great Britain. The Declaration of Causes explained why the colonies went to war with Britain. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
The colonist intened on building their denfences on the high ground of Breed's Hill, but they built them on Bunker Hill. William Prescott lead the Americans in the battle, and Thomas Gage lead the British. The british's strategy to win the war was to march up North to the British Valley, and join forces with the other British Allies. They did this to see if the Americans would surrender, but they didn't so the British attacked William's Milita and won the battle.
