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The french and indian war began
The French and the British start a war. -
Join or die
Cartoon made to convince people to join together. -
Massucure at fort loudoun
Fight between Native Americans and British. -
Treaty of Paris
States that all land owned by Canada in the colonies is now owned by britan. -
Proclamation line of 1763
States that people of the colonies can not settle pat the appaltion mountains -
Quartering act
States that colonist must house British troops. -
stamp act
States that anything made of paper is now taxed. -
Declaratory act
Stats that the colonist are now represented in parliament. -
Townshend acts
States that items such as tea are now taxed. -
sons of liberty are created
A group of people that protest are created. -
corrosive acts
closed the harbor till tea was paid for, banned town meeting, and made a new quartzing acts. -
Boston massucure
A group of protester shot by british troops when a rock is thrown at them. -
tea act
tea is now taxed -
Bostn tea party
Tea was dumped into the harbor to rebel against Brittan. -
Albany plan of union
Called for colonies represents to make decisions. -
First continental congress meets
Meeting held by leaders of the colonies made decision to not trade with Brittan anymore -
Lexington and concord
Battle between minuet men and the British army -
Battle of breeds hill
Battle fought by the british and the colonies on breeds hill. -
Second continental congress meets
Meeting held by the leaders of the colonies witch decided to break away from Brittan -
continental army is formed
The colonies army is formed -
Tomas pain writes common sense
Pamphlet wrote by Tomas pain that convinced many people that the colonies needed to split from Britain. -
Decoration of independence is issued
This decoration states that the colonies are now separate from Brittan -
Battle of Saratoga
A virtory of the partriots witch made France want to sing the treaty of allinice -
Battle of pirson and trenton
Battle fought by gorge Washington and the British army in new jersey -
Battle of kings moutain
Battle between the overmounting men and the British army. -
British surrender
British give up on winning the war. -
battle of yorktown
Brittan was pushed into a peninsula by the continental army then defeated. -
2nd treaty of paris
Sated that Brittan would now recognize colonies independence