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The Governor of Virginia gives land grant to the Ohio Company
The settlement efforts were complicated by the conflicting land claims of the time -
Seven Yaers War
(1754-1763)
It was an economic war centered around mercantilism or the idea that government would control the economy. It resulted in territorial changes. -
British Victories
british troops captue Ticonderoga, Diquesne, and Louisbourg -
Proclamation Line
Settlement west of the Appalchan was forbidden and reserved for Indians -
Sugar Act
Britian continued harsh taxes. In 1764, they taxed sugar. -
Stamp Act
Britian txed all printed goods. (Stamps, labels, newspapers, ect.) -
Townshend Acts
Britian passed a series of harsh acts includng the quartering act and taxation without representation. This was punishment for the Boston Tea Party. -
Boston Massacre
British troops opened fire on a group of unarmed colonists. % colonists were killed, and six others were injured. -
Tea Act
The act was not intended to raise revenue in the American colonies, and in fact imposed no new taxes. However, it was the fnal straw imposing taxation without representation. -
Boston Tea Party
Colonists diguised as indians threw tons of tea into the ocean as protest of the Tea Act. -
First Contnental Congress
12 out of the 13 colonies(excluding Georgia) sent representatives to Phillidelphia to discuss the intolerable acts. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
The union captures Vcksburg
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Battle of Gettysburg
The larest battle of the American Civil War -
The union captures Atlanta
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Pearl Harbor
a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor -
Battle at Coral sea
was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia -
Invasion of Normandy
It was fought by the Allied forces against Germans -
Attack on Japan
The U.S. dropped two atomic bombs. One on Hiroshima and one on Nagasaki
