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Revolution and New Nation
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French and Indian War
War fought between Great Brittan and it's 2 enimes, the French and the Indians of North America. Most of the battles was in Canada. American colonists, including George Washington, fought with the British in this war, which lasted from 1754 till 1763. The British won the war and won the right to keep Canada and several possedions in the New World or Nation. -
Sugar Act
1764 Act that put a 3 cent tax on foreign refined sugar and increased taxes on coffee, indigo, and certian kinds of wine. It banned importantion of rum and French wines. These taxes affected only a cretain part of the population, but the affected merchants were very vocal. Besides, the taxes affected were raised without the consent of the colonists. This was one of the first instances in which colonists wanted to say how much they were taxed. -
Townshend Act
Series of 1767 laws namde for Charles Townshen, British Chanceller of the Treasurer, HTese laws placed new taxes on paper, glass, lead, tea, and paints. Colonial reaction to these taxes was the same as to the Sugar Act and Stamp Act and Britain eventually repealed all the taxes except the one on tea. In response to the sometimes violent protests by the American colonists, Great Britain sent more troops to the colonies. -
Boston Tea Party
Angry and frustration at new tax on tea, American colonists calling themselves the Sons of Liberty and disguised as Mohawk Native Americans boarded three British ships, the Dartmouth, the Eleanor and the Beaver, and dumped 342 whole crates of tea into the Boston harbor on December 16, 1773. Similar incidents occured in Maryland, New York and New Jersey in the next few months, and tea was eventually boycotte throughout the colonies. -
Intolerable Acts
Series of laws sponsred by British Pirme Minister Lord North and enacted in 1774 in responseto the Boston Tea Oarty. These are the 5 laws: 1) Impartial Admeinstration of Justice Act 2) Qubec Act 3) Quactering Act 4) Massachusetts Bay Regulating Act 5) Boston Port Act. These acts were the harshest so far of all Acts passed by parliment. The closing of Boston's port alone would cost the colony and the American colonies a ton of money. The Regulating Act was aimed curtailing revolutionary activitie -
Finished part of the Intolerable Acts
activities. The Quartering Act angered colonists who didn't want soldiers (especially Redcoats) in their houses. And the Quebec Act was a direct insult to Americans, who had been denied the same sorts of rights that the Quebec residents now got.Rather than keep the colonists down, the Intolerable Acts stirred the revolutionary spirit to a fever pitch.