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the french and indian war
this war was between the french/native americans and the colinests/english. this war put england in a great debt. -
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events leading up to the american revolution
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proclimation of 1763
this was a law saying colinests could not move west of the app. mountains. english made this law so that they didn't lose any more colinests to the natives. -
quatering act
this was the law forcing colinets to house redcoats. -
the stamp act
this was the first tax on the colinests, it also put a tax on all paper products. -
the bostom mascare
this event started in the early day with a fist fight between a recoat and a colinest. by late day many colinest were raging outside a tax colectors house. the colinest were chanting names at the english soldiers, the guard called for help. troups came the comander said "hold your fire! " but one soldier shot the crowd moved forward. all the soldiers shot at the end 5 people were killed and 6 were injured. this event is called the boston mascare because mascare means muredered without deffense. -
boston teaparty
thisn event was caused because england made a law forcing colinest to buy tea from only one company. this enraged the colinests so they dressed up as natives and snuck on board a british ship and pored 90,000 pounds of tea into the boston harbor. -
first continental congress
deligents got together to discuss problems of the british parliment
