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The French and Indian War
The French and Indian war started on January 1st, 1754 and ended 1763. They were arguing with each other because they BOTH wanted most land of North America. The French appeared to be winning in the early Battles, but soon the British took charge and won the battle, causing the French to give up most of their land. To pass that land the Treaty of Paris gave Britain control of Canada and some areas east of the Mississippi River.The British may have seem like they won the War, but they did not win -
Treat of Paris
The Treaty of Paris was an agreement between the British, France and Spain with the help of the Portugal agreement. That ended the Seven Years’ War. The British got more than double the size of their land when they won the battle. The French lost a lot of men, and materials for their colony. The French ended up losing their most precious land. -
Pontiac's War
In 1773, August there was a Rebellion. It was fought because the British, mainly fur trappers and traders, were on the land where the Indians lived .It affected the colonies big time. The Colonies couldn't get things anymore. No colonists could settle there. -
Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 closed off the Western frontier to the colonists. It says that no one could cross over to there. It was supposed to calm down the Indians, who thought that the Colonists were going to steal their land. The Colonists did not like the idea. They were mad that they could cross over the land that they helped get. -
The sugar Act
The sugar act was a law that put taxes on everything important. The British did this, because they needed the money, because they were in debt. It made the Colonists angry. They didn’t only want to sell their goods to the British. It would mean they won’t sell as much. The Colonists started to boycott, which is not buying British goods. They all were against the Sugar Act (law). -
The Stamp Act
The Stamp act (law) was a new law saying that all American Colonists are required to pay a tax on every single paper they used. They needed the money to help protect the American frontier by the Appalachian Mountains. The Colonists thought that England was going to raise money in the Colonies without the Colonial Legislatures approval. But in this Act the Colonists eventually reasoned. Not like with the Sugar Act. Once they reasoned , there was no fighting back. -
The Quarting Act
The Quartering Act told the Colonists that they had to house the British soldiers in barracks that they had to provide, but if they were too small the Colonists had to take them in their home and take care of them. Give them a place to sleep, food, everything. The Colonists did not like the fact that soldiers were being forced into their houses. They did not like it at all. They thought that they should have at least asked them what they think. -
The Stamp Act Congress
The Colonists wanted to place actions behind their own words. The kings were there. Members of six of the nine delegations signed papers talking about the tax. Every Colony but one represented. The Declaration and Rights of Grievances said that Parliament did NOT! Have the right to impose the tax, because he did not address the Colonies. -
The Townshend Acts
The Acts were named after Charles Townshend, who was the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the program. It was to raise revenue in all the Colonies to end up an independent ruler, to punish the province of New York for not complying with the 1765, quartering act. Most of the taxes were repealed, or to be canceled, Except for the Tea. It cost the Colonies to form a Boston Tea Party. -
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murder. He defended him because he believed that since it was free country, everyone deserved a fair Trial. -
Boston Massacre
What lead to the Boston Massacre was with a confrontation. Also was the Townshend Acts. A group of British regulars arrived in Boston. The people there reacted to the British regulars as invaders. The people from Boston attacked the British by name calling, spitting and fighting. The British, now troops, attacked them and was called for Trial. John Adams defended Captain Preston, who was the soldier who led the attack in Boston after they attacked first. Caption was on Trial and assigned for -
Tea Act
It was made to bring up the East India Company which was floundering financially and was burdened with 18 million pounds of unsold tea. A helped a tea sale in the American colonies.a monopoly on tea sales to the East India Company. In other words, American colonists could buy no tea unless it came from that company. -
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party happened when the British ship’s crews were stalled in Boston finding trouble. That is what led to the Boston Tea Party. 80 whole and 34 half chests were dumped into the Boston Harbor (92,000 pounds of tea). The group, led by Samuel Adams, who was John Adams brother, was responsible for the Boston Tea Party. The group was called “Sons of Liberty”. The British did not like it! It was wasting their Tea, which they needed to pay off the debt. -
The Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were 4 laws that were a punishment of the American Colonies. They were made by King George the 3rd and Parliament. Another name for the Intolerable acts was “Coercive acts”. It made the Colonists have limitations! They couldn’t do everything they could. Which caused more laws (or Acts). -
The First Continental Congress
The meeting was held because it was for response to the passage of the Intolerable Acts. Only 12 Colonists were there. Georgia did not attend. 56 members appointed by the Legislatures were at this meeting. They met to consider the options, including an economic boycott or the British trade; the rights and grievances; and petitioned King George III for redress of those grievances. -
Lexington and Concord
Tension has been building between residents of the 13 colonies and the British authorities, but mainly Massachusetts. When 1000 British reinforcements came to Lexington, it forced the colonists to pull away the attack. Hundreds of British troops came into Concord from Boston in order to seize an arms cache. Minutemen were apart of teams selected by the American colonial militia. Many battles followed after, but in the end the colonists won, formally, their independence. -
The Second Continental Congress
On June 14, 1775, the Congress appointed George Washington as the Commander- in-chief- of the army. The Olive Branch Petition was an attempt to avoid a full-blown war between the 13 Colonies. The Declaration of Causes was a document talked about in the Second Continental Congress to explain why the 13 colonies had taken up arms in what had become the American Revolutionary War. -
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Battle of Bunker Hill
The American colonists were intending on building their defenses on Bunker Hill, but actually built their defenses on Breed’s Hill. Colonel William Prescott was who led the Americans. General William Howe was who led the British. The British had a strategy, and it was to attack and get all two hills which would give them a great advantage. When the Americans found out that the British were planning on taking both hills, they move onto Bunker and Breeds Hill.
