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French & Indian War
a. The cause of the war was both sides wanted to expand their North American colonies
b. France and Britain had colonies in North America, the British wanted settle within the Native Americans and trade with them. The French built forts to protect their trade within the Indians and this caused them to end up in war because they wanted to expand their land
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Proclamation of 1763
a. This document was issued on October 7, 1763 and was issued to establish the new land reserved west of the Appalachian Mountain for the Indians.
b. The effect that this document had on the colonists were the British began to tax the colonists heavily due to be in debt after the war. -
Sugar Act
a. Parliament was the ones responsible for the Sugar Act.
b. The Sugar Act was so England were able to tax the colonists on molasses and sugar and to send smugglers of the goods to court due to England being in debt after the war.
c. The significance of the law was a change in policy to where it was an option to pay taxes on sugar and molasses to the British to where you had to pay taxes for the sugar and molasses because of their debt. -
Stamp Act
a. British Parliament was responsible for the Stamp Act
b. The Stamp Act was established to tax the colonists on each document or paper that was stamped or needed to be, and this was their first of many ways they began to tax the colonists
c. The colonists responded to the Stamp Act by creating the SOns of LIberty which protested against the Stamp agents and they created the Stamp Act Congress to attempt to take the Act away because they determined that the British was abusing their power. -
Quartering Act
a. This law was passed for the colonists were required to house the British soldiers by keeping them in their homes, feeding them, taking care of them and they also had to pay taxes for soldiers that stayed in barracks and other places -
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Stamp Act Congress
a. The representatives from some of the British colonies North America
b. They met in New York City
c. The purpose was to repeal the Stamp Act and drew some ideas towards the Declaration of Independence
d. The result was they were attempting to repeal the Stamp Act and they had general idea of the Declaration of Independence -
Townshend Acts
a. British Parliament passed this law
b. The purpose of this was to tax goods from England on the colonists such as glass, lead, tea, and paper. Due to the heavily taxing, colonists would smuggle goods into their homes. The writs of assistance allowed British agents to come into their house during daytime if they were convicted of smuggling goods
c. The money collected from taxing would be used to pay for debt on the war
d. The colonists weren't happy and wanted this to be repealed -
Boston Massacre
a. 5 colonists were shot and killed when British fired
b. This was a street fight between the British and colonists due to the Townshend Acts
c. It started off as few colonists yelling, calling names to some British soldiers but then grew overtime since the soldiers took no action -
Boston Tea Party
a. The Native Americans were responsible for the Tea Party
b. The Tea Act had led to this because they didn't agree with it and saw it not being fair.
c. (1) The Natives dumped the 92,000 pounds of tea in the Boston Harbor
(2) They took 3 ships in order to dump the tea into the Harbor
d. The British passed the Intolerable Acts after they heard what had happened, this closed off the Harbor for no trading to be done. -
Intolerable Acts
a. The colonists were the main victims of this law
b. The Intolerable Acts were passed after the Boston Tea Party because when they Natives dumped all that tea into the Harbor, England had lost a lot of money when they dumped the tea
c. The colonists were anxious about how to get goods imported or exported since the Harbor was closed off -
Quebec Act
a. The purpose of this law was to replace the Canadian government that led to them having religious freedom at the time of the signing of the Proclamation of 1763
b. The response the colonists gave to this act was that they seen this law as another Intolerable Acts law -
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First Continental Congress
a. 12 of the 13 states attended the meeting but Georgia didn't. Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe attended the meeting
b. The representatives met in Philadelphia
c. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the Intolerable Acts and to defend the rights of the colonists
d. The result of the meeting was they called a boycott of the British goods and to not use military force against them, unless it was necessary -
Battle of Concord & Lexington
a (i.) The British were after hidden weapons and Adams and Hancock were the people who British were after
(ii). Minutemen were the people who fought in this battle
(iii). The Americans showed the British that they had power and surprised them, thinking they weren't that good. The British had to retreat back to Boston but then grew bigger and better to take on the Americans -
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Second Continental Congress
a. 12 of the 13 states were involved, except Georgia and Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison had attended the meeting
b. They met at Philadelphia for the meeting
c. The purpose of the meeting was to create a Continental Army and to write the Declaration of Independence
d. The result of the meeting were the Deceleration of Independence and Olive Branch Petition were written -
Common Sense
a. Thomas Paine wrote the pamphlet
b. The purpose of the pamphlet was to advocate independence from Great Britain
c. The significance of this pamphlet was to convince colonists to support the independence from England and encourage them to -
Declaratory Act
a. The reasoning for this law and what it did was to repeal the Stamp Act officially and to have the same taxing authority for the colonists as they do in Great Britain -
Battle of Bunker Hill
a. The battle took place in Massachusetts
b. At this battle, the British were attempting to keep the colonists under their control and not let them break free
c. The result of this battle was that British had to retreat and even though they won, it gave colonists hope on winning the war -
Declaration of Independence
a. Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence
b. The Declaration was signed on July 4, 1776
c. The significance was to break free from England and no longer be under their control
d. Three main ideas they had were to give the colonists inalienable rights back, to eliminate unfair taxes and laws, and to show that England had violated the social contract
e. The colonists response to this were relievement from the unfair treatment and for the British to no longer abuse their power
