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The Revolution
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Treaty of Paris
Was signed by British, Fance, and Spain. Together with the treaty of Hubertusburg, it ended the Seven Years War. -
Proclamation Line
Its stated that the colonists where not allowed to travel and settle beyond the Appalachian Mountains. Most of the colonists ignored this proclamation. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act greatly reduced the taxes on sugar, and also added more British troops to enforce trade laws. -
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Stamp - Intolerable Acts
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Stamp Act
The Stamp Act adds a tax to printed offical documents in the colonies. Those documents needed the stamp to prove the tax was paid. -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act made it so the colonists had to provide shelter and supplies for British soldiers if asked. -
Townshend
Puts taxs on paper, glass, paint, lead, and tea. All revenue from the taxs go to England. -
Boston Massacare
Colonists gather and taunt British Soldiers
An alteration takes place and a British Soldier fires -
Boston Tea Party
Reaction to tea act
Sons of Liberty climb aboard British tea ship and dump the modern equivalent of 4 million dollars of tea into Boston Harbor -
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Intolerable Acts
The five acts included in the Intolerable Acts where the Boston Port Act, Administration of Justice Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Quartering Act of 1774, and Quebec Act. All of which where responsis to the Boston Tea Party. They took away Massachusetts ability to self-govern, and closed Boston's Port till the tea was paid for. -
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1st Continental Gongress
12 of the 13 colonies send representative to the congress and discuss the Intolerable acts -
Lexington and Concord
First battle between British and the 13 colonies. After the battle 20,000 patriots surround the city of Boston -
Common Sense/ Crisis
Goerge Washington has the Crisis read to his soilders to boost the moral of the army.