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French and Indian War
French and Britain fought over the American land.
It happened because colonists wanted to move to the west. The french owned the land to the west.
Britain got all of the land east of the Mississippi and Spain got the land west of the Mississippi.
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Boston tea party
This was when the people threw lots and lots of tea into the ocean in protest of the monarchy the government was not happy with this and this was one of the things that helped start the revolution. -
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Sugar Act
It was the attempted theft of sugar or molasses. Two prime movers behind the protests against the Sugar Act were Samuel Adams and James Otis both of Massachusetts. In May 1764 Samuel Adams drafted a report on the Sugar Act for the Massachusetts assembly in which he announced the act was breaking the law of the rights of the colonists as British subjects. -
Currency act
There were so many different kinds of money, that you could only use certain types to buy things. -
Stamp act
Charging the colonies tax for everything that they stamp (or water-mark) to get more money. A few of the objects that were stamped are legal documents, newspapers, and pamphlets. -
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The Quartering Act
Quartering Act is a name given to two or more Acts of British Parliament requiring local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with housing and food. -
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Townshend Act
It was a series of four acts passed by the British Parliament in an attempt to assert what it considered to be its historic right to exert authority over the colonies through suspension of a recalcitrant representative assembly and through strict provisions for the collection of revenue duties. -
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Boston Massacre
The British and Americans had a conflict in Boston that ended in the British firing on a mob and killing 5 colonists.
…. The conflict started by a lone British officer being heckled by a colonist. More and more people joined in the heckling.
….Patriot officers joined the lone British and stood up for him. Many things were thrown at the British.
….The British fired on the Americans. Many colonists used this as propaganda to show that the British were monsters or murderers. -
Tea act
The Tea act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773 and granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies. -
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The Intolerable Acts
….The Intolerable acts was a group of laws passed by the British parliament in order to punish the colonists.
….The colonists were being punished for their disobedience at the Boston tea party.
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First Continental Congress
The first Continental Congress met in Carpenters Hall in Philadelphia from September 5-October 26, 1774. Carpenter's Hall was also the seat of the Pennsylvania Congress. All of the colonies except Georgia sent delegates. These were elected by the people, by the colonial legislatures, or by the committees of correspondence of the respective colonies.