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Freench and idian war begins
This war started when the french continued th encroch on british land in the colonies.this lunched a war between the french and indian on one side and the british on the other -
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Couses of the american revolution
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End of 7 years war
The end of the war came with peace talks in witch Britian claimed canada from France and florida from spain.But britian also gave up the west indian sugar islands to france and louisiana to spain -
Stamp act
The stamp act required all colonists to pay a tax on every piece of printed pape the would ever use.This along with other new acts were mainly to pay for the 7 years war -
Townshed acts
Created by Charles Townshend to collect currancy from the colonies by putting customs duties on imported goods like lead, tea,paper,and paints -
Boston massacre
The Boston masacre occured when and angry mob surranded a brittish guard screaming verbual abuses.He was then joined by 8 more of his colleges who were also assulted with mords and thrown objects.Finally the guards opened fire on the crowd killing 3 and wounding 8 two of whom later died.This was a huge propoganda tool used by the patriots to spur rebellian -
Tea Act
The tea act was an act that aloud the estern india company to sell tea to the colonies at a bargin.But the leaders of the patriots saw this as a way of gaining support for the other less poular acts and taxes which they would not allow -
Boston Tea Party
This was a politiacl protest led by the sons of liberity.The sons of liberity borded estern india tradng company ships and proceaded to dumb crates of tea into the boston harbor -
Intolerable acts
These acts were ment to punish Massachusetts for the events of the boston tea party.3 main effects of the acts were the removalof their self government,Their historiacl rights and the enlargemennt of the quebec borders witch put massachusetts under the control of the french catholic inhabitants -
1st cont congress
Many of the colonies sent delegates.All wanted to show Britian taht there a strong colected gov in the colonies but thats where the simalarites ended. Some wanted resolution with england while others defended colonieal rights -
Battels of lexington and concord
These were the first battles of the american revolution.In lexington the red coats ran into a group on angry militia soliders.The militia as out numbered however and the battle only lasted 15 minutes. The surviving soliders fell back to concord where there fellow patriots awaited prepared for the attack. The red coats waked into the attck and were slaughter.The survivors fell back. This marked the first victory for the patriots and the beginig of the American revolution -
2nd cont congress
Convened and unanimously passed the dec of independance -
The publishing of common sense
Writen by Thomas paine Witch inspired the colonists to fight for independnace by stating his agument aganist British rule and writing it like a sermon with plentty of biblical referances -
Declaration of independance is draffted
The declaration was writen by Thomas Jefferson of virginia and John Adams led those in favor of its adoption