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French and Indian War
A) The cause of the war was land.
B) English colonists want to expand west-french & indian resist
C) The british won, it caused the proclamation. The treaty of paris ended the French and indian war -
Proclamation of 1763
A) Reserved the land west of the Appalachian Mountains for Indians.
B) It caused england to increase taxes on the colonists, to help pay for was debt. -
Sugar Act
A) Parliament was responsible for the Sugar Act.
B) They sent smugglers to the british court, and began taxing on sugar and molasses. They were taxed to bring in more molasses & sugar.
C) It was important because it was the first tax on sugar & molasses.
D) It was repealed, the colonists was very angry about this. -
Stamp Act
A) The british parliament was responsible for the stamp act.
B) it was the official government required on documents.
C) The sons of liberty- they protested british agents, it delayed the stamp act policies. the house of burgesses was apart of the colonists being taxed. -
Quartering Act
A) The quartering act required colonists to provided food, drink, and living space to the british soldiers. Anybody in the colony could have british soldiers living with me. -
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Stamp Act Congress
A) The representatives from the nine colonies, were involved.
B) They met in New York City
C) They met because the nine representatives but aside their differences, for a mutual cause. While working together they came up with the declaration of independence. -
Declaratory Act
A) The declaratory act was when parliament repeated the stamp act, and declared it has rights to rule and tax on the colonies. This act was passed because british parliament wanted to have power over the colonies. "No tax, without representation" -
Townshend Acts
A) Charles Townshend was responsible for this act, he named this act after himself.
B) It was a tax on goods, such as lead, paper, glass, tea, & paper. The writs of assistance was custom officers could search any house for smuggled goods.
C) The money was used to buy more tea, around the time for the boston massacre.
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Boston Massacre
A) It was an incident, where british soldiers shot out into a crowd killing 5 people.
B) Crispus Attucks was an african american, who was killed in the boston massacre.
C) The boston massacre led to the townshends act, were colonists were beginning to be taxed on goods.
D) it started from just them throwing snowballs, between british soldiers and an mob. -
Boston Tea Party
A) Samuel Adams, the sons of liberty protested on the boston tea party.
B) This event led up to the boston tea party.
C) the sons of liberty protested because they wanted to show parliament how they felt about the boston tea party
-So they dressed up as native americans and dumped out all of the tea into the boston harbor
D) Their reaction was that, they shut down the boston harbor, all the tea was payed for. and this led towards the intolerable acts. -
Quebec Act
A) The Quebec Act was a law that was passed by british parliament to permanent administration in canada. which gave the people religious freedom.
B) The colonists also was upset with this law, because it was kind of in terms with the intolerable acts. -
Intolerable Act
A) The colonists were mainly affected by this act.
B) there were four laws that were passed because they thought the laws were unfair laws. a law that was created in order to punish the colonists.
C) they didn;t like this act at all, because it was a law created to punish them . -
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First Continental Congress
A) All of the thirteen colonies attended this event, the four founding fathers were: Patrick Henry, George Washington, John Adams & John Jay.
B) The First Continental Congress met in philadelphia
C) they met to discuss the intolerable acts, and how the colonists were being to be taxed .
D) They just decide to sit around a wait, and have another meeting soon after. this led to a boycott. -
Battle Of Lexington & Concord
A) was the first military engagement of the american revolution. Also know as the shot around the world.
1) The british were after guns, better guns that they didn't have.
2) The minutemen, which were men who were ready to fight at any minute fought against an angry militia.
3) A lot of the men were killed, but while that happened, they did get a victory. -
Battle Of Bunker Hill
A) The battle of Bunker hill was fought in boston
B) The British won this war, and provided them with some kind of boost.
C) The british defeated the americans.
D) It was very upsetting to them, even though they won. Lots of families lost their loved ones. -
Common Sense
A) Thomas Paine was the author.
B) he wrote it, arguing over the independence of the british.
C) it kind of made all the people come together and have an common agreement -
Declaration Of Independence
A) Thomas Jefferson Is the author
B) July 4, 1776
C) It was important because it was all about freedom, life liberty and the pursuit of happiness
D) All men are equal, and they way we think about our government
E) The colonists were for it, it stated that they had more freedom and all men were created equal
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Second Continental Army
A) John Adams, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock and a few others were involved.
B) They also meet in philadelphia pennsylvania
C) They wanted to see what the reactions were and help out with colonial effort.
D) This led up to the Declaration of Independence & the Virginia declaration of rights.
