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Salutary Neglets
Long standing British policy in the 13 colonies which allowed the colonists to flout, or violate, the laws associated with trade . In 3 different time periods
-1607 to 1696
-1696 to 1763
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Boston Massacre
5 colonists killed by British regulars on March 5, 1770.
October 1768 to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed by townshed acts. -
The Intolerable Acts
On May 10, 1773 the government spent immense sums of money on troops and equipment.
1774 after the French and Indian war government decides to reap greater benifits from the colonists in which eventually led to the Boston Tea Party later in history. -
Battle @ Lexington & Concord
Fought on April 19, 1775 kicked off the Amercian Revolution.
Tensions had been building for years.
On April 18, 1775 hundreds of british troops, marched from Boston to nearby Concord. -
Second Continential Congress
Lexington and Concord had changed when the Boston crowd in 1775.
may 1775 -
Winter at Valley Forge
Fall of 1777 General George Washington's continental army moved south from New Jersey to defend the capital of philadalphia.
Valley Forge was easily defensible. -
Surrender at Yorktown
America declared its independence in 1776, but it took another 5 years to win freedom.
On October 19, 1781 when the British General Charles Cornwallis surrenderd his troops in Yorktown, Virginia. -
Treaty of Paris
1783 negotiated between the United States and Great Britain, ended the Revolutionary war.
Congress named a five-member commision to negotiate a Treaty-John Adams.
