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at first the colonists accepted the navigation acts, it gave them a place to sell their raw materials; later on, they realized that they wanted to sell their materials to other places than England, so they started to smuggle their materials and ovoid taxes. -
a British law passed in 1733 that taxed molasses, rum, and sugar imported into the north american colonies from non Britain countries -
in spring 1754, George Washington and other ordinary citizens were sent out by the Virginia governor to drive out the French, when they marched to fort Duquesne Washington made his own fort not to far away, he named it fort necessity. -
in 1756 George Washington was given a virginia militia to fight against the French for the Ohio valley and they won the valley in 1763 because the French surrendered -
in 1764 the French excepted the sugar act since it gave them a place to sell their raw materials, but after a while they realized that the government was taxing their materials, so they weren't getting their full payment, and this led to them smuggling materials straight to buyers so the government couldn't tax their materials -
in 1765 the British Parliament made the stamp act Which made it so people have to put stamps on anything like documents newspaper ad even playing cards, and this was bad because anyone selling anything had to pay for the stamps and it was like a tax Which decreased their total money gained. -
they took away the Townshend acts and only taxed the tea -
after the French and Indian war the colonies were a lot of money, and they saw it as the government spent money to protect the citizens so they're going to pay for it; so they put tax on glass, led, paint, paper, and tea -
March 5th 1770, it was snowing and kids were having a snowball fight, there was a red coat standing guard. to be funny somebody decided to throw a snowball at the red coat, and eventually they ran out of snowballs and the snowballs turned into rocks and oyster shells. now their was a group of redcoats, the were getting things thrown at them and eventually one of the guards fell and his rifle went off Which triggered the redcoats to start firing -
fifty-five delegate gathered together to create a political body -
General Thomas Gage had ordered Parliament to seize weapons and arrest leaders of the Massachusetts militia. -
Permitted the requisition of unoccupied buildings at first, to house British troops. -
British officials charged with a capital offenses had to be tried in another colony or England -
the punishment for the colonist because of the Boston tea party -
A government for Canada was created, and extended its territory all the way south to the Ohio River. -
Paul Revere was a member of the sons of liberty along with William Dawes and they were alerted by Dr. Warren that there were troops marching out of the city, so they went and spread the news, "the British are coming!" -
There were 70 minutemen waiting to go against the British troops. a random shot was fired and both sides engaged. when the smoke cleared, 8 minutemen were dead. Finding no weapons, the 120 marched back to the rendezvous point of the North Bridge. It was at the North Bridge that Colonist engaged in Guerrilla Warfare, chasing the British all the way back to Boston, By the time the redcoats reached Boston, 174 wounded and 73 dead, 18 Colonist wounded. -
it was a fort in NY near lake Champlain Which was a good location but it also had a lot of military supplies, Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen decide to team up to take this fort Which they did by coming at night and use the bait and switch tactic -
In 1774 the Continental Congress agreed to meet again if the British did not address their complaints. In fact, as the battles at Lexington and Concord in 1775 showed, the dispute between the British and the Colonies had worsened -
the militia decided to build a fort on both bunker hill and breed's hill, Which were across the harbor from Boston. when the British saw this they made a plan the next day to get the redcoats from at the bottom of the hill with bayonets on their guns and charge the hill. the militia didn't have much ammo, so Colonel William Prescott gave the order not to shoot until you see the whites of their eyes. the militia successfully repealed the british 2 times but on the 3rd the british took the hill -
since Washington had to fight the British he figured he'd try and get king George III to sign The Olive Branch Petition, Which assured King George III that the colonist wanted peace, and asked to protect their rights -
St. Leger ran into Benedict Arnold at Fort Stanwix … he lost -
after a whole summer of training, Washington finally decided at night to get on the mountains surrounding boston. he shot a warning shot and once the British realized that the cannons couldn't get to the militia they surrendered -
king george III needed an army to fight for him so he hired the hessian soldiers -
Thomas Jefferson signed the declaration of independence Which would give the colonist rights, a list of grievances against the crown and Parliament and also possibly get a new nation