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French and Indian War
The French and Britain fight over land and Indian choose sides. The British won. This lead to the British taxing the colonists and restricting the movement towards west. Then this lead to the discontent of English and British. -
Pontiac's War
This war happened because the Indian were tried of being treated unfair. -
Proclamation of 1763
This stopped the english colonist from expanding west. this made the colonist very mad due to the fact that they just fought a war to settle west. -
Sugar Act
this act put an tax on sugar -
Stamp Act
This act put a tax on legal document, dice, and playing cards. The act made the colonist mad because they were being taxed and Britain wasn't. -
Townshend Act
The act taxes glass, paper, lend, tea, paint. Also it Officers could check ship's cargo without a reason. -
Committee of Correspondence
They wrote letter to colonies -
Troops come to Boston
20,000 British troops come to Boston -
Boston Massacre
A crowd was surrounding a house full of their tax money. British soldiers were surrounding the house to protect the house. The crowd got louder and a British soldier panicked and shot 5 people. -
Tea Act
Let British East Indian Company bypass the merchants and sell directly to the people. This took away American's right to conduct free enterprise. -
Boston Tea Party
Sam Adams and Sons of Liberty pour 342 chest of tea into Boston Harbor -
First Continental Congress
This was made to help Mass in its struggle. They boycotted British goods, Stop exporting goods to Britain, and set up militias -
Intolerable Acts
- shut down Boston ports 2. only Mass have one town meeting. 3. British officers that did crime would be judged in Britain Canada, or Britain. 4. New Quartering act, Br. soldiers have to house in English homes when no other housing available
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Quebec Act
This allowed religious freedom to French Catholics. -
Lexington and Concord
British soldiers try to take minutemen's arsenal, but failed and on the way back some died.
