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Colonies before
the 13 colonies have been left alone. Moving west to the Appalachion mountains. But the french were more concerd with trading. The french built forts to keep the english coloniest out. -
conflict in the ohio valley
Virgina sent 21 year old George washington to force the french to leave fort buquesae. It was a small battle and it was the battle that started the war. -
Great Britain and French
World wide war betweem great britian and french.The british succesfully took canada from french. Washington almost died he had four bullet holes in his jacket. -
treaty of paris
Land west of the Missippi river went to Spain. Land east of the missippi river went to Great Britian. This part of the war was costly colonist began to settle by the ohio river valley. But this is where the native americans lived so they attacked the coloinest. -
Proclamation
British did not allow colonist to settle west of the appolachians. They sent troops to protect and prevent crossing of the line. British was angry becuase the colonist did not want to pay for protection. -
Sugering act
The suger act was the british government taxing the use of suger which was heavily used for many differend foods and exsacly tea. -
stamp act
The stamp act was yet another tax passed on the colonists to pay off British debt. This taxed all goods that were written and was applied to everything colonists used. -
Quartering act
It was law passed by british government for coloinst. That allowed the britsh soldiers to stay in there homes for free. this ment they got to eat there food drink there water and other stuff like that. -
repeal the stamp act
The colonist boycott agianst british and were successful. And at this rate the colonist saw a revolution on the way. They saw if they worked together they could defeat the british. -
Declatory Act
The Declatory Act was used to give the colonists to give then freedom from from britsh to boycott the stamp act.was yet another victory for the colonistsit wasnt giving the colonist much freedom but corage. -
Townshend Act
The Townshend Acts were taxations placed upon glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea imported into the colonies. -
Boston Massacre
It was about how the colonist were tauting the british soilders and one fired there gun. And was accused of murder. This only made the colonist sronger. -
Boston Tea Party
The leaders of the the sons of liburty dressed up as natives and poured all the tea in to hte ocean. This was a type of boycott on the taxes for tea. -
Intolerable Acts
These Acts were used to try to regain control of the colonies. After the things that have been happening like bosten tea party. But this only made the colonist rebell even more. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
This was known as the shot heard around the world. It also showed that the colonist could stand up and bet the british.