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French and Indian war
English colonists run out of land they want to move west a war happens the war costed a lot of money thy had to pay for supplies soldiers and weapons the effect was the British make new taxes that colonists had to pay in order to payoff war debt -
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Taxes and Repression
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Sugar act
under the molasses act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses -
stamp act
the new tax was imposed on all american colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used -
quartering act
were two british laws passed by the parliament of great Britain 1765 and 1774 that were designed to force local colonial governments to provide provisions and housing to british soldiers stationed in the 13 colonies -
town shed acts
series of four acts passed by the british parliament in an attempt to assert what considered to be its historic right to exert authority over the colonies through suspension of a recalcitrant representative assembly -
Boston massacre
the boston massacre was incident in which british army soldiers shot and killed people while under attack by a mob the incident was heavily publicized by leading patriots such as paul revere and samuel adams to encourage rebellion -
committee of correspondence
colonial opposition against British policy and established a political union among the Thirteen Colonies. -
tea act
the British Parliament passes the Tea Act, a bill designed to save the faltering East India Company from bankruptcy by greatly lowering the tea tax it paid to the British government and, thus, granting it a de facto monopoly on the American tea trade -
boston tea part
a group of colonists protest thirteen years of increasing British oppression, by attacking merchant ships in Boston Harbor. In retaliation, the British close the port, and inflict even harsher penalties. -
intolerable acts
were harsh laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774. They were meant to punish the American colonists for the Boston Tea Party and other protests. -
first continental address
, delegates from each of the 13 colonies except for Georgia (which was fighting a Native-American uprising and was dependent on the British for military supplies) met in Philadelphia as the First Continental Congress to organize colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts. -
second continental address
The Second Congress managed the Colonial war effort and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence -
lexington and concord
First Revolutionary Battle at Lexington and Concord. In April 1775, when British troops are sent to confiscate colonial weapons, they run into an untrained and angry militia. This ragtag army defeats 700 British soldiers and the surprise victory bolsters their confidence for the war ahead. -
common sense
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies -
declaration of independence
July 4, 1776, the 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain. The Declaration summarized the colonists’ motivations for seeking independence. By declaring themselves an independent nation, the American colonists were able to confirm an official alliance with the Government of France and obtain French assistance in the war against Great Britain