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Bacon's Rebellion
Cause: Frontier Settlers want to take Natives Land(West).
Event/Act: A rebellion led by Nathaniel Bacon against Governor William Berkeley. They burn down Jamestown.
Aftermath: Rebellion dies after death of Nathaniel Bacon. -
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Great Awakening
Cause: Secular Rationalism and Stale Passion for Religion.
Event/Act: A religious revival in which impacted the American Colonies.
Aftermath: Colonists started to become more religious and getting more involved in religious acts and activities. -
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French and Indian War
Cause: French move into Ohio River Valley and kick British out.
Event/Act: A war to decide who would own the New World. Goal of war is to take land, money, and glory.
Aftermath: Treaty of Paris and Proclamation Line of 1763 -
Treaty of Paris
Cause: British/Colonists win French and Indian War
Event/Act: France will lose all territory in the New World and British are rulers of North America.
Aftermath: Both the British and Colonists become upset with each other. Colonists feel like they got no reward and British feel colonists barely helped. British passes Proclamation Line of 1763. -
Proclamation Line of 1763
Cause: French and Indian War
Event/Act: Territory Prohibited American colonists of settling west of appalachia. Issued by King George III.
Aftermath: Pontiac's Rebellion -
Pontiac's Rebellion
Cause: Some colonists upset with the Proclamation Line of 1763.
Event/Act: Pontiac the Chief of Ottawa's led an uprising at Fort Detroit trying to resist British rule.
Aftermath: The uprising was unsuccessful. -
Stamp Act
Cause: War debt
Event/Act:Tax on printed items(Newspapers, playing cards, etc.) Needed stamp proof.
Aftermath: Angry colonists, boycott British goods, repealed since it hurt business. -
Quartering Act
Cause: War debt
Event/Act: Provide shelter and supplies to British soldiers to defend colonies post-French and Indian War
Aftermath: Angry colonists, Protests to British presence in colonies, British writes a new one. -
Townshend Acts
Cause: British wanted colonists to pay for more taxes
Event/Act: Import tax on tea, glass, lead, and dyes(enforced with search warrants called “writs of resistance”.
Aftermath: Boycott again, courts refused to issue writs, protests, partially repealed(kept small tea tax). -
Boston Massacre
Cause: Colonists protesting and harrassing British soldiers
Event/Act: British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston.
Aftermath: British repealed townshend act, withdrawal British troops. Paul Revere creates propaganda that helps in withdrawing British troops. -
Tea Act
Cause: Save British East India Company from bankruptcy and give British a right to tax Colonists.
Event/Act: Gives British East India Company tax free imports of tea in America.
Aftermath: Colonists fear monopoly and losing business, so they boycott British good sin NY and Philly, Boston Tea Party, not repealed. -
Boston Tea Party
Cause: Tea Act, angry of taxation without representation.
Event/Act: Colonists dressed as Mohawk Indians and dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor imported by British East India Company. (Sons of Liberty)
Aftermath: British pass Intolerable Acts. -
First Continental Congress
Cause: Intolerable Acts/Boston Massacre
Event/Act: Delegates from every colony except Georgia(under British watch and royal rule) met in Philadelphia. Created the Declaration and Resolves of 1774 which was a petition sent to Britain demanding the Intolerable Acts to be repealed.
Aftermath:King George III rejects offer, claims colonists must submit or triumph. Patrick Henry motivates Colonists to fight for independence when saying "Give me liberty or give me death!". -
Intolerable Acts
Cause: Punish Colonists for Boston Tea Party.
Event/Act: Crown tightens Boston, Boston ports closed, Quartering Act passed, Revoked colonial charter and loss of self-rule.
Aftermath: Rebellion against British, not repealed, First Continental Congress formed. -
Common Sense
Cause: To motivate and rally Colonists to fight for independence.
Event/Act: Paine states how the British Parliament is unfair and wrong, gives reasons on why America has very good odds in winning a war, and gives all the reasons America should fight for independence.
Aftermath: Revolutionary War