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French and Indian War 1754-1763
The 13 colonies had been left alone.
France was more concerned with trading.
The french also built forts.
In 1750's the colonists moved west over appalachian mountains. -
Treaty of Paris
The treaty of paris ended the French and Indian war.
Britan claimed all land east of mississippi except florida.
Native Americans responded by attacking colonists. -
Proclamation of 1763
British did not allow colonists to set west of the appalachians.
The 1st time the colonists had hostility twoards mother england.
The proclamation was issued by King George the third. -
Sugar Act
The British Parliment taxed anything that had sugar in it.
Taxed sugar and molasses.
The sugar tax did not affect many. -
Quartering Act
Colonists had to provide food and housing for the british soldiers.
This was a cheaper way for the British Government to save money.
The colonists hated it but little could be done. -
Stamp Act
Stampact congress organized boycott.
Taxed on every piece of paper used.
They eventually repealed. -
Town Shend Acts
Taxed on household items like tea, silk, glass, paper, and lead.
They Boycotted.
They couldnt take the boycott anymore so they repealed. -
Writs of Assistance
Custom officers could search ships at will. -
Boston Massacre
The Colonists and the British soldiers got into a fight.
5 colonists were killed.
8 colonists were wounded.
Later, two british soldiers were convicted of manslaughter. -
Tea Act
The British Government taxed tea.
The company monipolized and controlled the prices.
Many people were furious because this was part of their basic needs. -
Boston Tea Party
The colonists were furious with the unreasonable tea prices.
The colonists put 90,000 pounds of tea into the Boston Harbor. -
Intolerable Acts
The port of boston closed down.
Colonists could not hold town meetings.
The First continental Congress meets. -
First Continental Congress
- Delegates agreed to ban all trade with britan until acts were repealed.
- The first continental congress met in Philidelphia.
- Each colony began training troops.
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Lexington
- the beginning of the revolutionary war.
- Marched to Concord.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson's poem coined the phrase " Shot heard around the world." about the first shots of the revolution.
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Concord
- The other battle that was recognized as being the first battle of the revolutionary war.
- On the bridge outside of concord, british met by hundreds of minutemen, Minutemen forced british to retreat.
- Patriots used hit and run tactics, British retreated back to Boston.
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Second Continental Congress
- The second continental congress met in Philidelphia.
- Established the continental army with George Washinton commandeer. -The olive branch petition declare their loyalty but ask for repeal of the intolerable acts.
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Bunker Hill
- British won bunker hill.
- "Dont fire till you see the whites of their eyes".
- Common sense increased the public support for American Independence.
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Fort Ticonderoga
-The British wanted to get to New York and try to separate the New England States but they had to get through Fort Ticonderoga first.
-They made a plan to fire at the Fort with a cannon from the high mountain Sugar Loaf.
-The Americans saw this and evacuated immediatley allowing the British to enter the Fort and get by. -
Common Sense
Common Sense increased public support for American independence.
Thomas Paine was the author of common sense.
Thoms paine published a famous pamphlet that persuaded many colonists that the time had come to declare independence. -
Declaration of Independence
-Thomas Jefferson was chosen to compose the document.
- Thomas Jefferson wrote the decleration in only a few days.
- Ben Franklin, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson all helped prepare the document. -
The battle of trenton
-There was a suprise attack that included George Washington and the continental army.
- The crossed the frozen Deleware river.
- They defeated 800 hessians. -
The battle of Princeton
-George washington and the continental army have another suprise attack.
- The battle was in New Jersey.
- they had defeated 300 British troops. -
The battle of Long island New York
- British wanted to capture new york.
- British attacked washingtons army and infected heavy casualties.
- washington avoided capture.
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Saratoga
-This was considerd the turning point of the war.
-The american victory during 1777 led to the french becoming our ally.
-Burgoyne surrenderd his entire aarmy to the americans. -
Valley Forge
-George Washington and the continental army winterd during 1777 to 1778.
- Many of washingtons men died of frosbite.
- Washington lost many men by starvation also. -
Yorktown
-This battle became the major engagment between the british and the american/french forces during the american revolution.
- This gave the americans their victory that ultimatly ends the revolutionary war.
- This battle is the final battle of the revolutionary war. -
Treaty of Paris
- This treaty ends the American revolution between the americans and the british.
- Congress would recommend that the states return any property they had seized from loyalists. -The united states was independent.