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French&IndianWar
Britsh just finished fighting the french over land. -
Sugar Taxing
Britain started taxing suger. They made laws to control smuggling and it made the colonists angry. Frenville did this because he hoped the lower tax would convince the colonists to pay the taxes instead of smuggling. -
Stamp Act
In 1765 the British Government taxed the colonists without consent. -
Writs of Assistants
The British searched for smuggling goods. They also said if people were smuggling they had to go to court. -
Townshend Acts
They started to not buy products from britain and make them and make everything that they could themselves.The colonists started to not buy products from britain and make them and make everything that they could for themselves. -
Boston Massacre
The colonists through rocks at the red coats and the red coats shot. The colonists thought the Red coats were stealing their jobs and taking them away. -
Boston Tea Party
Colonists disguise themselves as indians and threw the tea off of the british ships. -
coercive acts
the acts taken to get back at the colonist for the tea they distroyed. -
Continental Congress
The colonies were outraged by what the King was doing, they made up a congress to discuss solutions to their problems. (It was the King of England.) -
lexington and concord
first battle of the revolution the shot heard around the world. -
Second Continental Congress
The American Revolution had begun and American soldiers known as (minutemen) had been killed. This was the second time they met and the Second Continental Congress made decisions like an actual government. -
olive branch petition
the acts of the colonist trying to get their freedom -
battle of bunker hill
a battle in boston that killed thousands and wounded many more. The colonist were effecred by the casualtys and the money the spent on the battle. -
Declaration of Independence
Happened because the colonies did not want to be under the British Empire.They no longer had to follow the British laws or religious laws.