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The French and Indian war
The war in which the British and the American colonist band together to fight the French for the Ohio River Valley. They eventually won which led to the Treaty of Paris in 1763 -
The Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation stated that the colonist were not to pass the imaginary line on the Appalachian mountains to the Ohio River Valley which the colonist had fought for -
The Stamp Act
To recover from the debt they had incurred from the French and Indian war England started to tax the colonist by making it mandatory to put a stamp that was made in London on things that had ink on them -
The sons and daughters of liberty
The sons and daughters of liberty were a group of patriots that formed over the stamp act that ransacked houses of British officials, threatened tax collectors, and tried to rebel from England as much as they could -
Stamp Act Congress
This congress took place October 7-25, 1765. Where delegates came together to discuss what to do about the new taxation -
The Boston Massacre
in "The Boston Massacre" British soldiers opened fire on unarmed civilians, five were killed six were injured and patriots all over the colonies were outraged -
Committees of Correspondence
these were shadow governments led by patriot leaders of the thirteen colonies who shared news around the colonies to oppose the stamp act -
Boston Tea Party
In defiance of the tea act of may 10th, 1773, John Adams and a couple of other patriots in Massachusets dressed up an Indians and through an entire shipment of tea into the sea -
Intolerable Acts
When news about the Boston Tea party reached England they were infuriated, so much so that they made new laws for the colonies that most colonist called intolerable. These laws include closing down Boston's harbor until the damaged tea was paid for, colonist in Massachusetts could not have a town meeting without the permission of a colonial governor, and that all British soldiers accused of murder would be tried for murder in England -
The First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress gathered together 50 delegates from the twelve colonies in which they discussed on what to do about the intolerable acts. They soon came to an agreement to send a letter to the king to rethink his action on to go on a boycott of British goods unless it didn't work in which case they would meet again in may -
The Olive Branch Petition
A document in which the colonist asked the king to stop the fighting but the letter arrived too late as when he got it he had already declared the colonies to be in rebellion.
