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French and Indian War
The French trade allied w/the Algonquian and Huron.
The English allied with the Iroquois League.
France and Britain struggled for control of N. America
in the late 1600's.
The French and Indian War started in 1754.
The turning point came when the British captured
Quebec in 1759.
It gave Canada to Britain. France received lands
east of the Mississippi River.
British more power, colonists not heard. -
Proclamation of 1763
Most colonial settlements had been made along the Atlantic coast.
Colonial settlers, or pioneers, began to move west after the war.
Indians led by Chief Pontiac rebelled against new British settlements in 1763. To avoid conflict, King George III issued the Proclamation of 1763, which banned settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.Colonists wanted to spread out and settle new places -
Sugar Act
Great Britain had to pay for the French and Indian War and for keeping troops in North America to protect the colonists. Parliament passed the Sugar Act in 1764 to tax colonists to make them help pay costs. Parliament’s actions upset many colonists. Why? Because they had no say in the matter! Colonists believed there should be no taxes without representation in Parliament. Samuel Adams, a colonial leader, set up the Committees of Correspondence to protest. -
Stamp Act of 1765
An act of the British Parliament in 1765 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. Colonial opposition led to the act's repeal in 1766 and helped encourage the revolutionary movement against the Crown. -
Townshend Acts
Taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea. Writs of assistance (permission to search and trespass) used to enforce. Colonists boycotted British goods. Sons of Liberty attacked customs houses. British troops sent in 1768. -
The Boston Massacre
A crowd gathered in Boston after a British soldier struck a colonist on March 5, 1770. Copy**That evening a group of about 30, described by John Adams as "a motley rabble of saucy boys, negroes and molattoes, Irish teagues and outlandish jack tarrs," began taunting the guard at the custom house with snowballs, sticks and insults. Seven other redcoats came to the lone soldier's rescue, and Crispus Attucks (African American who supposedly started the fight) was one of five men killed with shots. -
Tea Act
Colonial merchants smuggled tea to avoid paying the British
tea tax. Parliament passed the Tea Act in 1773 to allow the British
East India Company to sell cheap tea to the colonists. -
Boston Tea Party
Colonial merchants and smugglers were opposed to this. They started loosing a lot of money and customers because they couldn’t compete with the British’s cheap tea. On December 16, 1773, colonists disguised as Indians attacked British tea ships and threw the tea overboard. -
Intolerable Acts
•This was to punish the Colonist's “tea party”. Boston Harbor was closed. Massachusetts's charter was canceled. Royal officials accused of crimes would be sent to Great Britain for trial.General Thomas Gage (British) was made the new governor of Massachusetts. -
1st Continental Congress
1775 First Continental Congress: a meeting in Philadelphia
of delegates from all colonies except Georgia. Delegates halted trade with Britain and alerted the colonial militia (volunteer army) to prepare for war. Drafted Declaration of Rights that included the right to “life, liberty, and property.” Colonists who chose to fight for independence from Britain became known as Patriots.Those Colonists who sided with Great Britain were called Loyalists or Tories.