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french & indian war
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• Treaty of Paris 1763
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Proclamation of 1763
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Sugar Act
-the british taxed almost anything sweet -
Stamp Act
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Quartering Act
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Writs of Assistance
- soldiers had to have a warrent to search places
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Townshend Acts
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Boston Massacre
-few deaths/injuries
-paul revere painted a descripion of what happened -
Tea Act
-taxes on tea -
• Boston Tea Party 1773
-boston sons of liberty dumped tea into the boston harbor -
Intolerable Acts
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1st Continental Congress
-wanted britain to repeal intolerable acts - -
Lexington
-the british attacked minute men first shot of the revoltion
-americans fled
-british contuied to concord -
Concord
-britsh lost against a thousand minute men
-after the battle at lexington
-british retreated -
2nd Continental Congress
-continental army -washington appointed general -
Bunker Hill
-patroits lost bunker to brtish
-do not shoot until you see the whites of their eyes
-low on gunpowder british lost lots of lives -
Ft. Ticonderoga
-a smybol of hope for the people - -
Common Sense
-thomas payne told the people its stupid to be ruled by someone half a world away
-fired people up for revolution
-brought commonsense to the eyes to the people -
Declaration of Independence
-written by thomas jefferson
-able to adapt
-made to control power to keep govrnment under the power of the people -
Battle of New York
-british took control of new york for the rest of the war -washington escaped just in time -
Battle of Trenton
-washigton lead his troops across the delaware river
-no lives lost
-catured trenton -
Battle of Princeton
-cornwallis fought the americans before the battle of yorktown
-washigton won
-cornwallis retreated -
Battle of Saratoga
-turning point in the war
-french and spainish allias of america
-british realized the americans want to really fight -
Winter at Valley Forge
-to 1778 -more men died of hypothermia -
battle of yorktown
-last battle of the war
-cornwallis surrenderd
-traped corinwallis on the coast with french ships in the harbor and washingtons troops on land -
treaty of paris
-british had to acknowladge that america was a free country
-froced to sign it
-cornwallis signed it for all of britain