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the lost colony
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day 9 french and indian war
The French & Indian War Society strives to promote understanding, awareness and appreciation of the French & Indian War in the Lake George and Lake Champlain regions. -
The Road to Revolution
the British Parliament responded by attempting to punish Massachusetts by passing a series of laws which the American called the Intolerable Acts. -
13 colonies
The Thirteen Colonies were a group of British colonies on the east coast of North America founded in the 17th and 18th centuries that declared independence in 1776 and formed the United States. -
sugar act
A. 5 April 1764
B. it was to defend the colonies, they should pay for the debt, and so the people of the American colonies were to pay a tax on the sugar they imported
C. The Act was abolished due the economic pressure the protested had on British economy. -
stamp act
A. March 22, 1765
B. It was put in place to pay off the debt the Great Britain owed from the French and Indian War. At this point in time, England did have political control over the colonies, but colonists were starting to rebel.
C.1.the Pot Set to Boiling
2.placed stiff excise taxes on all kinds of printed matter.
3.duties were intended to be relatively painless to pay and cheap to collect.
D.yes it repealed to British -
Sons of Liberty
A. The group agitated for colonial resistance and helped prevent enforcement of the Stamp Act.
B.Samuel Adams
C.The Sons of Liberty was a secret organization of American Patriots which originated in the Thirteen Colonies during the American Revolution. -
The Boston Massacre
A.March 5, 1770
B.the Boston Massacre, also known as the Incident on King Street, was a street.A heavy British military presence in Boston led to a tense situation that boiled over into incitement of brawls between soldiers and civilians and eventually led to troops discharging their muskets after being attacked by a rioting crowd. Three civilians were killed at the scene of the shooting, eleven were injured, and two died after the incident.
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Boston Tea Party
A.December 16, 1773
B.To protest the tea tax, citizens boarded ships in boston harbor to throw the tea overboard. The british guarding the ships did not stop them .The problem was the tide was out, so the tea sat there in clumps
C. Samuel Adams -
Quartering Act
First of all, you have to understand what exactly the Quartering Act of 1765 It wasn't 1764. was. The British needed money to pay for the quartering and provisioning of troops, and colonial assemblies did not find it necessary to provide for them since it was a peace time. Anyway, it required that British troops be housed in colonial barracks or public houses, and if the amount of troops outnumbered these, they would be house. -
“No Taxation without Representation”
No taxation without representationexpresses the colonial's desire to have representation in the British parliament prior to the American Revolution. Several of the key grievances listed by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence called out the fact that the American colonies were not directly represented in parliament, but were still managed without their consent. It was not necessarily an objection to taxation in itself they recognized the need for government. -
Coercive Acts
A.the intolerable acts
B.December 1773.
C. The Intolerable or Coercive Acts were passed by Parliament in 1774 in response to the Boston Tea Party. These acts closed the port of Boston until the tea had been paid for and "order" restored. The government of Massachusetts was altered, making almost all posts appointments of the King, -
Boston Port Act
A.The Boston Port Act, also known as the Intolerable Acts was significant because it angered the Colonist and was a key role in starting the Revolution. After the Boston Tea Party Parliament wanted to punish the colonist, and they did so by closing the Boston harbor, allowed British officials to be tried in England and quartered British officials in all towns and some peoples home. Because the Boston Harbor was closed people couldn't export and import things into Boston. -
Edenton Tea Party
A.The American colonies were not buying and using British tea.
They were bringing in their own tea from suppliers in the Virgin Islands and others and selling it in the colonies for much cheaper than the British tea.The East India Company, a British company that had control of the tea trade in the colonies.
B.Its purpose was to continue to rally the colonials especially those in Boston against the British Imperial government. Ironically, the Tea Act against which the Sons of Liberty. -
April 18, 1775 The shot heartd around the world
the British were coming for the colonies for the colonist guns. The colonies tried to state them. Someone shot. It stated the war. -
April 19 1775 battle of concord and Lexington
the fist battle fought in the american revolution. who won? the americans -
Sept 19, 1777 battle of saratoga
this battle was important because it show the french that the Americans could actually win the revolution against the British. -
battle of your town
last battle fought in the Americans revolution.the Americans won,which resulting in winning the revolution. -
November 1777 article of confederition
