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a series of laws that the parliament put on the colonists in the 1600s it made colonists sell all raw materials to England, even though they could get a better price elsewhere in Europe -
Parliament placed a tax on all sugar products. Sugar, Molasses, and Rum. Patrick Henry the House of Burgesses the only and sole exclusive right and power to lay taxes. Sam Adams started the Sons of Liberty, started burning effigies in the streets of Boston met at the Stamp Act Congress, drafted a letter only colonial assemblies could tax colonists. -
The goal was to form a united colonial government but each colony would have to give up some of its powers the colonial assembly was not willing to do so therefore the plan failed
Pit decided to send more trained british troops to fight in noth america his tow goals were 1. To open the ohio river valley 2 conquer french canada -
Mass protests broke out in the colonies and groups like the Sons of Liberty.
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aimed to raise revenue for the British Empire after the French and Indian War and stop the smuggling of sugar and molasses into the American coloniesThe British responded ny starting to build a fort in what is now western Pennsylvania
The French seized the fort and called it Fort Duquesne
The governor of virginia sent a militia to drive out the French
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The Declaratory Act of Parliament has the right to tax and make decisions for British colonies in all cases..
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Townshend Acts were external taxes on imported goods.. Glass, lead, a nd and tea paint By this point in the colonies, any British taxes angered colonist women supported the boycott, encouraged colonistss to wear homemade fabrics and domestic goods women started the Daughters of Liberty.
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When the smoke cleared, 5 lay dead and 3 were injured..Among the dead were Crispus Attuckatuck, a native american part afica as well as an 11-year-old boy named Christopher Seider.
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General Gage takes over Boston
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Permitted the requisition of unoccupied buildings at first to house British troops. Soldiers were now living next door, and sometimes, in Colonist homes
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British officials charge with a capital offenses had to be tried in another colony or England
This loss of self-government was designed make Colonist think before any action against the Crown was made. A royal governor was placed in charge.
Most still saw themselves as loyal British Citizens still. -
To further control the colonists, shortly after the Coercive Acts, Parliament passed the Quebec Act.
June 1774: A government for Canada was created, and extended its territory all the way south to the Ohio River. -
(as called by the Colonist) or Coercive (as called by the British)Coercive Acts, 1774, is also known as the ‘Intolerable Acts’. Intolerable means painful and unbearable
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First Continental Congress
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Paul Revere's Ride
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washinton outpost soon came under attack by the french and the british both sought native american help
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Battles of Lexington and Concord