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Salutary Neglect
The Salutary Neglect was an unoffiial of the British Government to rule the Colonies and keep them obidient. It was not enforced and the Colonies invented the self- government and found out that they had the power to resist against Britain. That knowledge was one step for the Revolutunary War. -
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Mercantilism
The Theory of mercantilism was made by Britain to control the trade in the colonies. Britain managed what the colonies spent their money on, who they traded with, what they produced and they put so called duties on imports and exports. -
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Mercantilism
The Theory of mercantilism was made by Britain to control the trade in the colonies. Britain managed what the colonies spent their money on, who they traded with, what they produced and they put so called duties on imports and exports. -
French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was a War mainly between Britain and France, where the Indians fought with r=the French and the Colonists with Britain. There were also other European counties involved. At the End of the war France lost all of its american territory and the Colonists were forced to pay the issues of the war, what they felt very unfair about. -
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Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 forbid the Colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains. Of couse that made the colonists angry and they continued to settle where they wanted to. It was another step forward to the American Revolution because they Recognized the weakness of Britain. -
The Stamp Act of 1765
The stamp act of 1765 was a tax that the colonists had to pay on every written paper they used. The money Britain gained with it was used to proted the border. -
The Quartering Act
The Quatering Act of 1765 commanded for colonists to give British troops a bed to sleep. The law did not want the colonists to give the soldiesrs their own bed, but thez didn't like to be forced to give the soldiers a bed to sleep, they prefered to be asked. -
The Stamp Act congress of 1765
The Stamp act congress of 1765 was the first congress of the colonies represented by 27 representants. The congress was held in New York. It was to discuss the colonists rights and the taxes. -
The Declatory act of 1766
The declatarory act of 1766 was a declatarion by the British empire that repealed the Stamp Act. -
The Townshends Acts
The Townshed Acts put duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea, wich was imported to the colonies. The colonists viewed that as an act of abuse of power and the colonists agreed to limit the import from Great Britain. The duty on tea lead to the Boston massacre. -
Boston Massacre
At the Boston Massacre 5 Colonists wer killed by British soldiers. It was a result of tensions between the British soldiers, who arrived in 1768 and the colonists, who were angry about the taxes and the way Britain ruled over them. -
The tea act of 1773
The tea act of 1773 was an act that put taxes on tea, not to raise revenue in the Colonies, but to flourish the East India Trading company. -
The Boston tea party
The Boston Tea Party was a protest of colinists disguised as Native Americans agaist the tax on tea. They destroied a whole shipload if tea. -
First Continental Congress
The first continental congress was a meeting of representatives of all states exept Georgia. They wanted to show Great Britain, that they were united. They also wanted to find a resolution with England. -
The intolerable acts
The intolerable acts were laws made by Britain to punish the Colonists after the Boston Tea Party. The Acts took the colonists self- government and several rights. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the result of tensions between the British and the colonists. Britisg troops marched from Boston to Concort to use am arms cache. The colonist attacked them and the Revolutionary War started. -
Second continental congress
The second continental congress was a meeting of all 13 colonies in Philadephia. It was held just after the American Revolutionary War had begun. They dicussed the war effort and moved torwards independence. -
The declaration of Independence
The declaration of Independence is the document that declares America indepenent if Great Britain. It explains equality of all men and protects the human rights. It was created by the Continental Congress. -
Common Sense
The Common sense is a book written by Thomas Paine that questions the authority of the British Government and the British monarchy. It was the first document that asked for the American Independence. -
End of the American Revolutionary war
The american revolutionary war end, when the British surrender at Yorktown in Virginia. The Americans are Independent now. -
Treary of Paris
The Treaty of Paris ended the American Revolutionary war between the colonists and Great Britain. It carified the boundaries and the Independence of Great Britain.
