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French and Indian War
The Fighting of this war was began in May of 1754 and ended in 1763. This war was the cause of the 7 year war. George Washington who was 22 at the time led this was.On the first day they defeated a renaissance party in southwest Pennsylvania, 10 French soldiers were killed and 21 were captured. The British won the war. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-blood-of-the-french-and-indian-war -
Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 was a law that was passed so that the Colonists would not go over the Appalachian Mountains and cause more conflicts with the natives. This made some colonists very upset because they just won the Seven years war which the land was the whole purpose of them fighting. http://www.history.com/news/remembering-the-proclamation-of-1763 -
Sugar Act
Lord Grenville was responsible for this act being passed. England began to tax the colonists because they were trying to come out of debt from the French and Indian war. This was a tax on molasses and sugar. www.HISTORY.org -
Stamp Act
The British parliament passed the Stamp act. The act was passed to tax the colonists on all printed paper, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, and playing cards. The sons of liberty began to protest on this and this act made the colonists furios. http://www.history.org/history/teaching/tchcrsta.cfm -
Quartering Act
This law was passed to make the colonists house British soldiers that were posted throughout the colonies and this caused the colonies more money. -
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Stamp Act Congress
James Otis was the one who suggested the Stamp act congress, they met in New York to protest against the Stamp act, eventually after meeting for about a month the Stamp act was repealed.http://www.ushistory.org/us/10a.asp -
Declaratory Act
The Declaratory act was passed to repeal the Stamp act. It stated that the British Parliament's taxing was similar to those of America https://www.britannica.com/event/Declaratory-Act-Great-Britain-1766 -
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Townshend acts
Chancellor of the Exchequer was the one who was responsible for this act which placed taxes on tea, paper, glass, etc.The tax money would be used to pay the salaries of the colonial government. The writs of assistance was a law written to state that British soldiers could check inside any home or ship. The colonists reactions were to boycott. They were very unhappy with the situation. http://www.ushistory.org/us/9d.asp -
Boston Massacre
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Boston Tea Party
Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty were responsible for the Boston Tea Party. The Townshend acts had just been repealed except for the tax on tea so therefore this made the sons of liberty dump 90,000 lbs of tea into the Boston Harbor. The result of this was the Coercive acts of 1774. http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/boston-tea-party -
Intolerable Acts
The people who were mainly affected by the laws was the colonists.The law was a cruel punishment to people for the Boston tea party and for people who protested. They would basically drown people in tea as a punishment. They took it to the first continental congress who discussed what the outcome would be. http://americainclass.org/sources/makingrevolution/crisis/text7/text7.htm -
Quebec Act
This gave French Canadians to have religious freedom, that was passed by the British parliament. This made the colonists mad because the French were getting rights while the colonists were getting rights taken from them. http://ushistoryscene.com/article/quebec-act/ -
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First Continental Congress
All of the 13 colonies went to the meeting except for Georgia. George Washington, Patrick Henry, John Adams, and John Jay were at the meeting. They met in Philadelphia in the Carpenters hall. The purpose of the meeting was to talk about how they were going to deal with the British and the Intolerable acts. This led to Lexington and Concord. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-continental-congress-convenes -
Battle of Concord & Lexington
Many things led to this battle including multiple acts that were passed which eventually led to the first continental congress and then this. The British were after the colonies and the new world. They knew they were losing control over the colonies so they went to battle. The untrained militia are the colonial force that fought. For the colonists they had 49 casualties and the British had 73, Surprisingly the colonists won this battle. https://www.bostonteapartyship.com/lexington-and-concord -
Second Continental Congress
All the 13 colonies were there except Georgia, also George Washington, John Adams, Ben Franklin, and John Hancock were there. They met back up in Philadelphia, the purpose of this meeting was to talk about the outcome of Lexington and Concord. The Declaration of Independence and Articles of Confederation were written at this meeting. http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/the-continental-congress -
Battle of Bunker Hill
This battle took place in Massachusetts. The British beat the Colonists but this battle gave the colonists a confidence boosts. The colonists response was to recover and come back fighting.
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Common Sense
Thomas Paine was the author, the purpose of him writing common sense was to make colonists understand the evil things the British were doing and he was trying to persuade them to fight on the right side. The significance of this was that maybe if he wouldn't have published this some people may have been scared and joined the British and we would all be speaking another language.https://www.enotes.com/homework-help/explain-signifance-common-sense-pamphlet-109299 -
Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, it was signed on July 4th 1776. The significance of this was to explain everything the British did that wasn't right and to claim America's Independence from Britain. The colonials were happy with this and eventually ended up leading to the American Revolutionary war.
