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Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris was the final reason the French and Indian war ended, it also helped end the seven year's war. The British won and all French territory on the mainland of North America was lost. -
Proclamation of 1763
King George the Third came up with a proclamtion that banned (colonial settlement west of the Applachain mountains).
The purpose was to regulate the trade in the colonies, the settlement, and land purchases on the western frontier. It soon later promised that British laws and culture were going to be applied in upper Canada.(one of the effects) All in all, it closed off the frontier to colonial expansion. -
Sugar Act
This law was placed on sugar, molasses, and other products shipped too the colonies. The tax would be payed by the merchants that shipped them,(an indirect tax to the colonists) and was going to be used to support the military actions. cause The Sugar act was the reason more protest were starting, and also increase more tension in the colonies. It was only one of the acts of the series that were near coming. effect -
Quartering Act
The British military members lacked shelter, and necessities. The Quatering Act forced colonists to house soldiers, pay for food, and provide any supllies they lack or run out of. Protests uprose because the colonists thought that the Quartering Act violated the Human Bill of Rights. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act proposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies. The money collected from the taxes would be used to pay to defend and protect the frontier by the Applachain mountains. The colonists were angry because they had no say about the taxation put upon them, and "taxation without representation is tyranny!" -
Boston Massacre
On March 5th, 1770 a group of youths and dockworkers- including Crsipus Attucks started trading harsh insults infront of the Custom House.(cause) Violence broke out and shots were fired. 5 men were killed among them were 4 laborers and Crispus Attucks. They had given their lives for freedom.(effect) -
Tea Act
A month after the Boston Massacre, the Townshend Acts were repealed and all the acts except the tax on tea(cause). Parliament kept the tax on tea to show it still had the right to tax the colonists.(purpose) The Boston Party was about to take place because the colonists were unhappy about the Tea Act and weren't going to let it by. -
Boston Tea Party
Protests against the Tea Act took place all over the colonies. (cause)Different colonies opened up the tea and left it to rot on the docks, or blocked tea ships from coming in, but in Boston a group of men dressed themselves up as Native Americans, boarded 3 tea ships in the harbor and destroyed 342 chests of tea. (1st effect) This event led to the Intolerable Acts. ( 2ndeffect) -
Intolerable Acts
Cause-the Boston Tea party.
Event- Parliament passed a law to punish the Boston (Massachusetts) colony for destroying the tea.
They were called the coercive acts, colonists thought they were so bad, they called them the Intolerable Acts. These acts were passed by King George III.
Effect- the first continental congress bans trade and militias were organized. -
First Continental Congress
Elected delagtes from twelve colonies met in Philidelphia at Carpenter's Hall. Representatives attended from all colonies except for Georgia. The Congress voted to cut off colonial trade with Great Britain unless Parliament abolished the Intolerable Acts. -
Lexington and Concord
British troops were sent off to Concord to capture John Hancock and Samuel Adams. Paul Revere rode through Concord at midnight warning the colonists the British troops were coming. John Parker was the colonel of the minutemen "Don't fire unless fired upon. But if they want a war, let it begin here." The effect was that the minutement defended their weapons and these battles led to the start of the revolutionary war -
Second Continental Congress
The representatives met and sent the Olive Branch petition to the King asking for peace. King George refused it and declared the colonies in a state of rebellion. The congress created a continental army and wanted Thomas Jefferson to draft and write a document declaring their independence. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
Isreal Putham led a couple hundred militiamen up Breed's Hill. After four hours they had a built a crude fort. William Howe then ordered his newly arrived troops to launch an immediate attack. The Americans lost to the British because they lacked gun powder. -
Common Sense
Colonists felt that they were divided even between the colonies and that republicanism needed to occur. Thomas Paine wrote "common sense" In it he wrote plainly that they called for independence from Great Britain. -
Declaration of Independence
John Adams persueded the rest of the congress that Thomas Jefferson should be the one to write the document. Congress had voted on July 2nd that they were declaring independence from Great Britain. The fourth of july is what we know as independence day because it wasn't until the fourth that this document was adopted and publicized. The biggest effect of this was that America became free. -
Battle of Brooklyn
This was the frist battle to take place after America declared their independence in July 1776. General Howe's army landed on Long Island, hoping to capture NYC and gain conrol over the Hudson River. The British gained a major victory and Washington's army was defeated. -
The American Crisis
Thomas Paine saw the harsh conditions and low enthusiasm of the soldiers on the retreat. To inspire the people he publsihed the first in a series of pamphlets, The American Crisis. This pamphlet was an on going support for the independent America. -
Battle of Trenton
Washington led his army across the Delaware river, once they arrived on the shore of New Jersey the army marched to Trenton.The weather was so bad their guns were soaked and General Washington ordered his men to use bayonets. Once they arrived the Hessian people were really suprised. They surrendered and Washington didn't lose a single man. After their victory, he captured 868 prisoners and 300 British troops. -
Battle of Saratoga
The Battle of Saratoga was the turning point for the Revolutionary War. burgoynes army finally reached Saratoga Springs on the Hudson river. There were so many militiamen, they easily outnumbered the british troops. Burgoyne ordered for an attack and after a harsh fight, surrendered. The battle has to major effects; It convinces the European nation that the Americans might actually win the war and Benedict Arnold was angry about the lack of recognition and left his army -
Winter at Valley Vorge
Geogre Washington led his army to Valley Forge to make camp for the winter. The cold weather was harsh and there was a shortage in food and clothing. Their forces grew stronger as a volunteer named Fredrich Von Steuben came and trained the men. -
Battle of Yorktown
The Battle of Yorktown was the last major land battle in North America during the American Revolutionary War. 5500 French soldiers allied with the Americans, docked in Rhode Island came to fight the British in New York City. Washington and his ally Rochambeau surrounded Cornwallis and open fired. -
Treaty of Paris (Revolutionary War)
The Treaty of Paris officially ended the war in 1783. The united States became independent. Both the United States and Britain agreed on repaying debts they owed to eachother, They gain the territory easy of the Mississippi, south of Canada, and north of Florida. They recieved the right to fish off Canada's Atlantic coast. Britain also agreed to return all of the enslaved people they captured and the US COngress said that the states should return all the land stolen from the loyalists.
