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French and Indian War
The French and Indian War started in the year 1754 and ended in 1763. This war took place between the French and the British who were fighting over the Ohio River Valley. The British wanted the land to control trade because there were three rivers for boats to carry the goods for trade and there was fur to trade. When the British went to the Ohio River Valley they found the French already building forts and taking over the land.Conflict later errupted with the British also built forts there. -
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This angered the British and they later built forts to cover land. The war finally started, and the French were winning the war in the beginning. This caused Native Americans along the Ohio River Valley to side with the French. Later, William Pitt became a leader of Parliament and made changes to help the British suceed in capturing the French forts andQuebec. After the conquering of Quebec, the French captial, the British won the war and gained control over the Ohio River Valley. The -
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British now have a major negative affect. This affect was that they are now hugely in debt from the war. They will later try and find ways to get out of this debt. This is what the French and Indian War was about. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris was a solution to the French and Indian War. The treaty was signed by the French and the Britan to stop the war and to make deals with the land the colonies both wanted. From the Treaty of Paris Britan recieved all French colonies on the mainland of North America, the Ohio River Valley,and Quebec. As for the French, they decided to give Spain their Lousiana territory west of the Mississippi River and their port of New Orleans .In conclusion, the Treaty of Paris had Britan -
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of Paris helped Britan double in size and left France in a struggle for power. -
Pontiac's War
Pontiac's war or Pontiac's Rebellion was a war between the Native Americans and the Britan.The war began under the Ottawa chief, Pontiac, who led the Native Americans to the British fort in Detroit to attack. The reason this war started was that the Native Americans who lived in former French territory could no longer defend themselves and their land against the British forces after the French and Indian War. In order to get their land back from the British, the Native Americans decided -
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to go to war with the British. Due to the leadership of Pontiac, the war was named after him. During the war,nearly eight British forts were destroyed and hundereds of colonists were captured or killed. This then convinced the British government to make the Royal Proclamation of 1763. This treaty created a barrier between the colonists and the Native Americans to prevent further wars. This later angered the colonists, and would lead to protests against the British government. -
Proclamation of 1763
The proclamation of 1763 was a law made by King George the third to help end Pontiac's War. This law said that no colonists were allowed to settle west of a line drawn along the Applachain Mountains. The Proclamation of 1763 also banned private citizens to buy land and make agreements with Native Americans. The British government finally passed the Proclamation of 1763 in hopes of preventing further wars with the neighboring Native American tribes. The British government also hoped to -
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accomplish making new governments for their newly gained land, and to keep colonists closer to the coast for easier taxation purposes. The Proclamation of 1763 angered many colonists who thought that these new laws were against their rights as a citizen. The colonists reacted by ignoring these laws while others took these as annoying and threats. In conclusion, this is what the Proclamation of 1763 was. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act is one of the many laws in Britan that taxed colonists without the colonists' word. The Sugar Act increased taxes on products such as indigo, sugar, wines, and other imported goods .This law also banned French wines and foreign rums from coming into the colonies. The Sugar Act made colonists pay a three cent tax on imported products and banned people to smuggle in goods. The whole purpose of this law is to make money for the colonies for two things. These two things were to -
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to stop the taxing. In conclusion, the Sugar Act was a law that the the British government tried to enforce to help make more money for the colonies. -
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force colonists to sell their goods to Britan instead of foreign countries, and to have money to help provide security from the Native Americans and other neighboring enemies. To this, the colonists acted in anger. For example, many colonists started boycotts or refusing to buy British goods. The colonists later got others to follow them in hopes of the government to lower taxing. On the other hand, some colonists whose business was hurting from the taxing began to beg -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was a law that the British Parliament enforced to put a tax on all paper documents in the British colonies. The Stamp Act put stamps on products such as wills, playing cards, ship's papers, licences, newspapers, and other publications. The person who would buy one of these products would have to pay extra now for the stamp added onto the product. This law was passed to help pay the costs of the ten thousand troops defending the colonies along the Applachain Mountains. -
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the Stamp Act. Some of these protests were also used during the Sugar Act, and there is mainly no difference between their anger from the Sugar Act and the Stamp Act. The colonists " fought back" to the British government by creating the Stamp Act Congress. This congress consisted of delegates from other colonies, and in this congress they declared that freeborn English colonists could not be taxed without their notification of their colonial legislatures. To this, Parliament later canceled the -
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The British government thought that the colonists would be happy of their generosity to support their protection. The gvernment turned out to be wrong, and many of the colonists thought that the Stamp Act was against their rights as a British colonist. The government still went on with the law, but the colonists decided to protest. Some of these protests were boycotting British goods, stamp distrubutors destroyed stamps, and the Massachusetts legislature called for a general congress to refuse -
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Quartering Act
The Quartering Act began when Lieutenant General Thomas Gage suggested that the colonists help pay for housing and food for the troops protecting the colonies. The British governmet didn't want to spend anymore money then they could, so they decided to make the colonists care for the troops.The Quartering act became the law and colonists had to house the troops in their own houses and barracks. The colonists were also required to supply the troops with food, money, and transportation. -
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These requirements angered many of the colonists and this caused them to refuse to house the troops. When the troops would eventually arrive, they could not leave their ship because the colonists would not house them. When news traveled through the towns, many other colonists refused to house the troops as well. Due to these protests, the British government canceled the Quartering Act on March 24, 1767. -
Stamp Act Congress
The Stamp Act Congress was a meeting held in New York to make a unified protest against the taxing by the British government. The key leaders that led the Stamp Act Congress to success were Patrick Henry, John Dickinson, James Otis Jr., and Timothy Ruggles. These key people can be found from nine of the thirteen colonies that were represented in the Stamp Act Congress. The Stamp Act Congress later met their goal with the creation of the Declaration of Rights and Grievances. -
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This declaration stated that there shouldn't be any taxes on the colonists without their representative in on it. The Declaration of Rights and Grievances now helped more colonists realize that these taxes are in violation of their rights because they are not being made by their representative. Finally, in 1776 the Stamp Act was repealed by the British Parliament. -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts was another tax on British products passed by Parliament. The Townshend Acts are named after Charles Townshend who was a British Chancellor of the Treasurer. The purpose of these laws were to raise money to pay the colonial governors, judges, custom officers, and the British Army in America. To help support this, the Townshend Acts put new taxes on items like glass, lead, paints, paper, tea, -
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high- quality paper, wines, and other imported products. Due to the taxing of the imported goods, the colonists reacted just like they reacted to the Stamp Act and the Sugar Act. For example, in due to all three of these taxes the colonists became angry and declared that these taxes were against their rights as a citizen. To the Townshend Acts, the colonists reacted by boycotting the British goods. The governor of Massachusetts wrote a Circular Letter that described the measures they were going -
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to take to stop the Townshend Acts. This letter later led to non- importation disagreements which caused colonial imports from Britain to reduce to only half. Due to the loss of money, the British Parliament canceled the Townshend Acts in 1770, but they decided to leave the tax on tea. -
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a protest led by patriots who did not like the taxing without their representation and the Quartering Act.The Boston Massacre happened because the colonists were angered at the government for putting harsh laws and unfair taxes on them. Some of these taxes were the Sugar Act, the Stamp Act, and the Townshend Acts. The colonists responded to these taxes by boycotting British goods, making petitions, and by creating congresses to make the taxes be canceled. These protests -
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because of the famous picture by Paul Revere. In conclusion, this is why the Bosotn Massacre occured and what happened. -
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worked, but the British government still put more laws and taxes on the colonists. Even the Boston Tea Party was not enough to make the government stop taxing imported goods and making harsh laws. The colonists decided that enough was enough. and they went on the street where British troops were at. The Boston Massacre began with about fifty colonists started throwing snowballs, sticks, and stones at British troops. The troops' general called in more soldiers to help them, and they began to fire -
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their guns. As a result, the Boston Massacre caused five colonists to die and six colonists to be injured. Even though the Boston Massacre is called a massacre, I don't think it is fair to call it this. For example, a massacre is the unnecessary killing of many people. The Boston Massacre was the killing of five people, and the colonists had a good reason to do it. That reason was for the government to stop taxing them and giving them harsh laws they have to follow. This is why I don't think -
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it is fair to call it the Boston Massacre. After the Boston Massacre, a town meeting was called that demanded the British troops and captain to go on trial for murder. John Adams was the famous American who actually defended these soldiers on trial. Even though John Adams was anti- British, he believed that in a free country every person on trial deserved a lawyer and a fair trial. As a result, only two British soldiers were found guilty of murder. Today we still remember the Boston Massacre -
Tea Act
The Tea Act was a law that was gave a tax break to the East India Tea Company. The two purposes the Tea Act was made
to change the minds of competing tea consumers to drag attention to tea consumers that the price of tea is going down. The whole reason the British government mad the Tea Act was to help the struggling East India Tea Company. The Tea Act helped the East India Tea Company because the law made the company a monopoly. A monopoly is a company that owns all or nearly all businesses -
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in a particular industry. This helps the East India Tea Company because they are now in charge of the competing tea businesses. In conclusion, this is what the Tea Act resulted to. -
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a protest of the colonists for the taxing of tea. The colonists decided to throw the tea into the harbor because the British Parliament kept a tax on tea. This tax was hurting many merchants because the law made the East India Tea Company the monopoly and it was hard for the colonists to smuggle tea.This caused many colonists to become angry, and they decided to throw three hundred forty- two (ninety thousand pounds) of tea into the harbor. The group responsible for -
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the Boston Tea Party was the group of fifty men lead by Samuel Adams called the Sons of Liberty. The Boston Tea Party angered the British and they created the Intolerable Acts. This law was a very strict law of five that was their punishment for the Boston Tea Party. -
The Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were passed by the British government for a punishment to Massachusetts and Boston for their protest called the Boston Tea Party. The Intolerable Acts were also called the Restraining Acts and the Coercive Acts. In the Intolerable Acts, there were five laws apart of the Intolerable Acts. These five laws were the harshest laws ever passed by the British Parliament. One law closed the port of Boston and caused the colony and America a huge amount of money. The closing of the -
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Quebec. This was made to be an insult to the colonists who were given the same rights as the Catholics are given now. In conclusion, this is what the Intolerable Acts did to colonies in Boston and Masachusetts. -
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port of Boston didn't even allow hay to go into the colonies for the starving cattle. Another part of the Intolerable Acts was the Quartering Act which made the colonists house the British soldiers, even though they already protested once before to this law. The third part of the law gave power to all trials to go to Great Britain and be heard under a judge. One other key point of the Intolerable Acts is that one part of the law granted civil government and religious freedom to Catholics in -
The First Coninental Congress
The first Continental Congress was a very important role in history because it was the first time that nearly all colonies united with each other. The reason this congress was held was to protest against the Intolerable Acts. During this meeting twelve out of the thirteen colonies were represented, and fifty- five people were there. Coming to decisions was difficult because the leaders were used to discussing in independent environments at their homes. This caused issues with trust and comfort. -
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Lee. These people helped the first Continental Congress become a success and helped the Intolerable Acts come closer to an end. This is what the first Continental Congress was and why it is important in history. -
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Luckily, the colonists were able to agree on two things. One of the two agreements was to resume the boycott on British products until the Intolerable Acts were canceled. The other agreement was that the colonists had a right to defend themselves if the governor of Massachusetts attempted to rule by force. Some of the people who were responsible for these agreements and were important to the first Continental Congress are Samuel Adams, John Adams, Patrick Henry, and Richard Henry -
Lexington and Concord
The battle of Lexington and Concord began the American Revolutionary War. It all started when the British military headed to Concord because General Gage wanted to capture the colonial leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock. To Gage's surprise, the Americans had spies that went around the town and warned them that the British were coming. Among these spies were Paul Revere, William Dawes, and Dr. Samuel Prescott. When two hundred British soldiers arrived in Lexington, they found only seventy -
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some British soldiers were keeping watch. They fired shots at each other and it later ended. Later, the rest of the British who were raiding the colonist's town started going back to Boston. During this, almost two thousand minutemen were following the British. The minutemen decided to hide behind trees, stone walls, houses, and sheds. This scared the British who were abandoning their weapons and supplies to retreat to Boston. The British met even more rebels where there was more battling. -
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minutemen waiting on the Lexington Green. There was a lot of shouting which caused the confusion of the order that the British general said to the rebel colonists. His order to the colonial rebels was to lay down their weapons. The rebels ignored the general’s order, and the first shot was fired. To this day, no one knows which side shot the first shot. The battle then came to an end with eight militiamen killed and nine wounded. On the other hand, the British only had one soldier wounded. -
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Most of the soldiers on the rebel’s side were minutemen. A minuteman is a colonial militia volunteer who was ready to fight at a minute's notice. After the battle at Lexington, the British army continued their march to Concord to capture arms and ammunition. By the time of seven thirty in the morning, the British army arrived in Concord. During their march in Concord, they searched for weapons and destroyed everything in their path. The minutemen later ran over to Concord’s North Bridge where -
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Proposition. This shocked the British general, Thomas Gage, who was sent back to England in shame. This is what happened during the Battles of Lexington and Concord. -
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The rebels were in good shape and could get capture the British, but their commander ordered them to stop. The British were then allowed to go to their naval soldiers in Charlestown Neck. The aftermath to the British was somewhat hard on them. This is true because the British lost seventy- three people, one hundred seventy- four people were wounded, and twenty- six people were missing. As a result to the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the British Parliament passed a law called the Conciliator -
The Second Continental Congress
The Battles of Lexington and Concord had made the colonies even worse. The British were now attempting to arrest patriot leaders and kill minutemen. Finally, a second Continental Congress was formed, but there was a different problem to solve. This problem was how they can have the colonists meet the threat of the British. One June 14, 1775 the congress decided to make their own continental army. They also put George Washington as the chief commander. Even though the colonists made their own arm -
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Congress did to help the colonies against the British Parliament. -
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like the British, they were not getting independence. The Second Continental Congress decided to make the Olive Branch Petition. The Olive Branch Petition was a direct claim to King George the third that pleaded with him to try to make peaceful resolution to the British and their loyalty to the crown. King George the third rejected the petition and declared the colonists in a state of rebellion. The British authority was getting out of hand, so the congress took over as the national government. -
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Since they were now taking over, the second Continental Congress wanted to make a stronger statement to the British government. This stronger statement was named the Declaration of Causes. The Declaration of Causes was a document that explained why the colonists had taken sides in the Revolutionary War. This declaration also held out the possibility of independence if the colonists' rights were not given back. Finally, in May Lord North offered the colonists a deal. This deal was that the -
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colonists would pay their share of taxes, and the government would not impose taxes beyond duties for imported goods. The second Continental Congress agreed with this, and it helped the problems with the government and the colonists come closer to being resolved. The Congress actually ended up serving the role as their part- time government. The Second Continental Congress would help with more problems in the future, and would get the colonists closer to independence. This is what the second -
Battle of Bunker Hill
The battle of Bunker Hill was a battle between the British and the Americans. It all started when the colonists wanted to build their defenses on top of Bunker Hill, but they decided to build their forts on top of Breed's Hill instead. The Americans were led by Colonel William Prescott, and the British were led by General William Howe. On June 17, 1775 over two thousand British soldiers began marching to the top of Breed's Hill as their strategy to win. The British chose this strategy because -
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a third time. This time, hand-to-hand fighting was involved and the British won the Battle of Bunker Hill. This was a very costly victory for the British because one thousand fifty-four out of two thousand three hundred British soldiers were killed. In conclusion, this is what the Battle of Bunker Hill was. -
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they believed that the Americans would retreat at the thought of a head-on attack. The British were wrong, and when they were only fifteen paces away the Americans unleashed their shots at the British. Many of the British soldiers were killed, but the rest retreated back down the hill. The British troops ran up Breed's Hill a second time, and they ended up the same way as their first climb up the hill. By the third wave, the Americans were low on ammunition when the British went up Breed's Hill
