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Assignment 1 : Events Leading Up To and During The American Revolutionary War
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Stamp Act
- Stamps were put on newspapers, diplomas, and letters
- Colonist forced the British to repeal, but they forced more acts
- The British never imposed taxes on America, which led the colonist to protest become violent
- They threw snowballs at eachother, which started the Boston Tea Party
- Parliment repealed the Stamp Act
- George Greenville passed the Act
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Boston Massacre
- Historians still don't know if the BRitish soilders opended fire for no reason or aced in self-defense
- It was important because the British parliments ill-will toward the colonist
- Paul Revere thought nine British soilders were in the war fighting,but there was only eight
- It wasn't really a massacre
- Only five people really died
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Boston Tea Party
- Colonists believed that tax place on tea was to high
- Protest was conducted by the political group known as the Sons of Liberty
- Colonists arriverd dressed up as Indians protesting the prices
- They rushed a East India Tea Company grabbing all the crates, and throwing them overboard
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Coercive Act
- Colonist had no part, or say in the taxes
- The colonist were pissed because they wanted to remain free, but British wanted to be incontrol
- The French, and British wanted to own more land, but the British didn't like that
- The British didn't want the colonist to have more land ,because it would lead to more expensive wars
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The Start of The Revolutionary War
- Included the tirteen American colonies and the British
- 40 billion were involved in the rebeillion
- War lasted about eight years
- Paul Revere rode around yellin "The British are coming !"
- It was Americas first civil war
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Declerartion of Independence was established
- George Washington was Commander in Chief
- Thomas Jefferson offered congressional resolution that led ti the establishment of this document
- It did not include the rights of African Americnas, Native Americans, or Women
- Was created to lesson the power of the federal government
- Resentment against the British acts turned into a rebellion
- It resembles the idea of life, liberty and, e pursuit of happiness
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Battle of Saratoga
- Americans beat the Brtish & that's what gave the French a Chance to win their revolution
- Burgpoyne surrendered to the American forces, making it a turning point in war
- He lost 86% of his force that proudly marched in to New York from Canada
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Battle of The South
- American troops in Pennsylvania and New Jersey opened a rebellion against the proper authorites (mutiny)
- Anthony Wayne said thier contract expired so they sent people to meet the mutineers to offer them by joining the red coats
- The virginians would cut off Benedict Arnoolds leg and burry it for military honors, than hand the rest of him
- Daniel Morgan had his soilders form three lines at the Battle of Cowpens
- He had an advantage over them because he used the landscape before Tarlenton
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End of War
- In April of 1783 the treaty of Paris offically ended the war
- Several territories were exchanged to make a more efficient peace around the country
- At the end , the American Colonists controlled all of the thirteen standing colonies
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A Harvest of Victory
- George Washington abandon his plan because the British threatened to take Yorktown back if he did
- The French and American troops did redoubts nine and ten at night
- British loyalsists were exiled from America
- Le Marquis and Lafayette led the French Revolution after the Revolutionary War
- Independence wasn't completed until America had its own constitution
