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French And Indian War
North America, Treaty of Paris, British won started because england and france wanted control over the ohio river valley -
Albany Plan of Union
New york, Plan to unify government for the 13 colonies,
Senior leader Benjamin Franklin -
Proclamation of 1763
Prohibiting settlement beyond the appalachian mountains,
Colonists who settled their were returned to go to the east,
Taxes -
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Pontiac's Rebellion
Great Lakes Region
Indians concede British
Prohibited colonists to settle in the region -
Currency Act
Law passed by British Parliament because of legal and issue of paper money,
British law banned minting of coins ,
Prohibited extension of paper bills , -
Quartering Act
Colonies to house british soliders in barracks
Colonist hated this act because they took away from colonial government -
Colonist Formed Sons of Liberty
Secret revolutionary organization
Formated in Boston
Boston Tea Party was a protest to them -
Stamp Act
Act regulating stamp duty (required everyone to pay taxes),
Passed by british parliment ,
Colonist attacked tax takers and did riots and also boycotted -
Sugar Act
British america and the British west indies,
A law that decreased people from buying sugar or anything with molasses in it ,
First taxed on the american colonies emposied by the british parliament, -
Declaratory Act
Taxing authority was the same in america as in great britain,
Caused by the colonist fighting about the last two taxes british issued,
Act proclaimed they could do whatever they wanted to the colonist -
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Townshend Act
British american colonists named the acts after Charles Townshend,
New taxes on imported paper, paint, lead, glass, tea, wood, water, food, & houses -
Boston Massacre
5 deaths 6 injuried
Private Hugh Montgomery was the first to fire
This lasted a week, it was suppose to help unite colonies against britain -
Tea Act
Allowed them to ship tea straight to colonies without going to england
Shipping it made it cheaper -
Boston Tea Party
Dumped 342 chest of tea
colonist mad at britain for imposing “taxation w/o representation”
Imported by British East India Company into the harbor” -
Intolerable Acts
Laws meant to punish colonists for defiance of the protest
Passed by British Parliament
Wanted the laws to be used as a example of the colonies -
1st Continental Congress
Meeting with 12 of the 13 British Colonies that became the U.S
Peyton Randolph
Boycott British goods -
Quebec Act
Gave French Canadians complete religious freedom
Known as British North America act
Repealed 1791 -
Patricks Henry’s “Give me liberty or give me death” speech
Aruging for Virgina shaunld involve their military in the fight against British in the American Revolutionary War -
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Common Sense by Thomas Paine
Encouraged people in colonies to fight for egalitarian government
This helped people to supporting others who favored declaring independence from Great Britain
Advocating independence from GB to people in the 13 colonies -
Battles at Lexington and Concord
British army set out from Boston to capture rebel leaders
Destroy the american store of weapons and ammunition in concord -
Second Continental Congress
A meeting of delegates from the 13 colonies in america which united the America Revolutionary war
Philadelphia
Agreed that a continental army would be created -
Battle of Bunker Hill
British defeated americans in Massachusetts
British plan was to hide behind log walls