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French Indian War/7 Years War
-2 Sides (French/Brittish)
-Alliance with Native Trade Route
-Land expansion
-Control of North American Trade Routes
-War ended with $8 million in war debt
-Enforced taxation in America
-Britain blames colonies for war -
Period: to
Pre-Revolution
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Treaty of Paris
-England gains East of Mississippi RIver
-England gives Spain West of Mississippi River -
Proclamation Line of 1763
-Ends Westward expansion
-England forbids settlement in Ohio RIver -
Boston Massacre
-Colonists taunt British soldiers
-Someone yelled fire
-Results in 5, possibly 6 colonist dead
-Sparks revolution -
Intolerable Acts
-Established after Boston Tea Party
-Quartering Act (colonist must house Brittish soldiers)
-Boston Port Bill (closed Boston port until the damages of the Bsoton Tea Party were paid for)
-Colonists rebelled -
1st Continental Congress
-Response to Intolerable Acts
-Boycotts
-Non-importation
-Committees of Correspondence enforced -
Committees of Correspondence
-Inspect custom houses
-Blacklisted people in newspapers
-Goal: avoid mobs
-Almost every colony had a committee -
2nd Continental Congress
-Not all believe in independence
-Reconcile vs Independence
-Washington nominated to lead army -
Lexington and Concord
-King reacts ton militia in Massachusttes
-Goal: seize rebel leaders and fire arms
-Paul Reveres midnight ride (arrested)
-Colonial ambushes
-273 British killed and wounded
-British find nothing -
Olive Branch
-King doesn't meet standards written
-Declares colonies in a state of rebellion
-Colonies bond for the first time