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The French and indian war starts
(exact date unknown)French and british fight a war with their indian allies. The winner will control the Forks of the Ohio. It began of a dispute over who gets to control the forks. -
The Albany Congress
The Albany Congress, also known as the the Conference of Albany; was a meeting of represenatives of the seven out of thirteen colonies that were sent by the legislatures to discuss better relationships with the native indian tribes and better defensive measures against the french threat. -
The French and indian war ends
(exact date unknown)The French and indian war ends in British victory. It is divided in three parts. the British, French and Spanish.Two treaties ended the war. The primary treaty was the 1763 treaty of Paris with the Austrian/Prussian segment was the treaty of Hubertusburg. -
The Proclamation of 1763
The proclamation of 1763 was issued by King George 3. In which it forbade settlersfrom settling past the Appalachian Mountains. It was to stabalize the relations with the native americans. -
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The Sugar Act
The Sugar Act, also known as the American Revenue Act or the American Duties Act started on April 5th 1764. It was a revenue raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain the act stated;"It is expidient that new provision and regulations should be established for improving the revenue of this kingdom. -
The Currency Act
The Currency Act is one of the several acts of the Parliament of Great Britain. It regulated paper money issued by the colonies of North America. it was sought to protect british merchants and creditors from being paid depreciated colonial currency. -
The Stamp Act
The Stamp Act required that many printed materials in the colonies be made on stamp paper. These materials were legal documents, magazines, and newspapers and many more types of paper used throughout the colonies. -
The Quartering Act
The Quartering act was a name given to atleast two acts in the British Parliament in the 18th century. It enacted colonists to provide food for British solders in the area. -
Patrick Henry's speech
Patrick Henry was born on May 29 1736. He was a attorney, planter, and politician. He was known as an orator during the movement of independence. He was remembered for his famous "Give me Liberty or Give me Death!" Speech. He led the opposition to the stamp act and is a founding father. -
The Virginia Stamp Act
The Virginia Stamp Act, A.K.A Virginia Resolves, was a series of resolutions passed down by the British Parliament to pay some debt from wars including The French and indian war. Patrick Henry made one of his speeches to the Virginia House of Burgesses to encourage the passage of resolutions. -
The Stamp Act Congress
The Stamp Act Congress A.K.A The First Congress of the American Colonies was a meeting consisting the representatives from some of the British colonies in America. It was the first meeting of representatives from some of the colonies to devise an unified protest against the nw British taxation. -
The Declatory Act
The American Colonies Act, commonly known as, The Declatory Act was an act of the Parliament of Great Britian. The Parliament repealed the Stamp Act beacause boycotts were hurting the British trades and they also used the Declaration to justify the repeal and save face -
The Townshend Revenue Act
The Townshend Revenue Act were a series of acts passedstarting in 1767 by the Parliament of Great Britain. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the program. The purpose was to raise the revenue to pay the taxes of governers and judges so they would ramain loyal to Great Britain. -
The Boston Non-Importation Agreement
On this date., 60 merchants signed the Boston Non-Importation Agreement in opposition of the parliament attempt to levy taxes on the american colonies. In a town meeting, merchants and traders in boston decided to boycott goods until the taxes on them were repealed soon tradesmen and craftsmen joined the effort. -
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre, A.K.A The Incident on King Street, was an incident where British army soldiers klled 5 people and injured 6 others. They shot 3 people and two injured people died of their wounds. -
The Tea Act
The tea act is one of the many parliaments of Great Britain. It was made to reduce the surplus of tea that financially troubling the British East India Company. It was also made to undercut the price of suggled tea going to the 13 colonies. -
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party, also known as The Destruction of the Tea in Boston, was a protest by the Sons of Liberty. They disguised themselves as indians and destroyed a whole shipment of tea. The whole thing was a risistance movement against the Tea act. -
The Boston Port Act
The Boston Port Act was an act in responce to the Boston Tea Party. -
Battle of Point Pleasent
The battle of Point Pleasant,A.K.A the battle of Kanawha. It was fought between virginia and shawnee and mingo tribes. The indians uder control of the Shawnee cheif Cornstalk. They attaked the virginia malitia under Colonel Andrew Lewis. Cornstalk retreated. After the battle, they signed a treaty to stop the war. -
Galloway's plan rejected
Joseph Galloway was a delegate that wated to keep the 13 colonies in the british empire. He suggested to create an american colonial Parliament but his plan was rejected by the congress, and was narrowly defeated in a vote 6-5. -
The Ride of Paul Revere
Paul was an american silver smith, early industrialist and patriot. He is most famous for warning the colonial militia the approach of the british before te battles of Concord and Lexington. In 1800, he was the first american to roll copper into sheets to use as sheathing for naval vessels -
George Wshington named commander in cheif
George Washington was chosen to lead the army against the French . He was chosen because of his bravery. He was a daring leader like tried to cross the Delaware River to suprise the Hessians. He wins all of his battles using suprise. -
The Battle of Bunker Hill
The Battle of Bunker Hill, also known as the battle of Breeds Hill, was fought on Breeds Hill. The French and British suffered tremendous loss, over 800 wounded and 226 troops killed, with a large number of officers. The result was a victory for the British though. They lost one third of their forces in that battle.
