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French Indian War
AKA- Seven Years War -
Stamp Act
Required Colonists to pay taxes on any piece of printed paper. -
Townshend Acts
Early 1767 -
Boston Massacre
-Angry men who lost there jobs were rioting at the English
-English erupts fire on the unarmed crowd
-5 People were killed -
Boston Tea Party
Samuel Adams and The Sons of Liberty boared three ships and dumped their tea. -
Tea Act
Taxed tea -
1st Continental Congress
-The committees of correspondence assembled it
-56 total delagates
-Held in Philadelphia
-defended colonists rights (to run individual affairs) -
Lexington & Concord
-Colonists VS. Redcoats
The Colonists win because the redcoats backed down -
2nd Contiental Congress
-Held in Philadelphia
-Had debates because some wanted to join Great Britain again while other wanted independce
-Agreed to recognize colonial militia as the Continental Army
-Continental Army's leader was George Washington -
Thomas Paine
He publishes "Commen Sense"
