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The French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was when the French and Native Americans fought the American Colonists and the British over the land the colonists were taking from the Native Americans. This put Britan into war debt, which was one of the resons the Parlement and King George the Third felt they could tax the colonists(which, as we all know angered the colonists),because after all, it was the colonist's land they were fighting over. -
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Events Leading UpTo The American Revoltution
The events leading up to The American Revevalutio were laws, acts (taxes), and events that angered the american colonitsts, and caused them to revolt against thier mothe country, Great Britan. -
End Of the French And Indian War
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Proclamation Of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 prvented colonists from settleing west of the Appalachian Mountians. This would make it easyer for the British troops to protect the colonists, though the colonists felt that they should be able to settle where ever they wanted,native americans or no native americans. -
The Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was a tax on all paper. The act (tax) ment that all paper had to have an official stamp, which the colonists had to pay for. This angered colonists because they all used paper for something, whether for playing cards or letters and envelopes. Fortunetly the act was soon repealed. -
The Quartering Act
The Quartering act forced colonists to house British soliders. Even worse, the unluky host had to pay for food, and whatever else the soliders needed, even if it ment a whole family sleeping in one room, or going hungry for a night. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre occured when a angry group of colonists gathered in front of a tax house. The single guard called for help, and 7 soliders under Captain Thomas Preston arrived. The colonists started yelling, throwing snowballs, rocks, and ice at the Redcoats. Captain Preston told his men not to shoot, but one fired, and the mob surged foreward. The other men panicked and started shooting.Five colonists were killed and six were wounded, in the event that we now know as the Boston Massacre. -
The Boston Tea Party
The BostonTea Party was when the patriots rebeled against the new British tax on tea. This tax only allowed colonists to buy tea from the British tea company East India The colonists did not like being forced to buy the tea, so the night of December 16,1773 some colonists dressed up as native americans,climbed abord the ships carrying tea, and dumped all the tea in Boston Harbor. -
The First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was when leaders from 12 of the 13 colonies (all the colonies but Georgia sent a representitive) met to disscuss problems. Although they agreed to fight the intolerable acts, which was a group of laws that were ment to punish Boston for the Boston Tea Party, what was most important was that the colonies were finaly working together.
