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Great Awakening
• The Great Awakening was an unorginized movement of evangelic sermons and church meetings.
•The Grat Awakening renewed the peoples faith and gave them a sense of equality.
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French Indian war
• The French Built forts in canada trying to keep their land.
• The British defeated the French.
• The treaty of paris is signed which gives canada and all land east of the missisipi except new orleans to the British. -
proclmation of 1763
•The proclmation of 1763 ended the french indian war. -
sugar act
•The sugar act raised taxes on suger and molases. -
Stamp act
• The stamp act made colonists pay taxis for all paper products.
• Colonists argued that it was unfair to tax them without having a represenitive in parliament. -
Towneshed acts
•The Towneshend acts put taxes on all imported products. -
Boston Massacre
• A british guard was being harrased by a citizen so the guard hit him with his rifle.
• people found out and it made them angry so the crowd started -
Tea act
• The tea act made the east india trading company ship te to the colonys so it could be sold. -
Boston tea party
The boston tea party is an event were the colonists disquised themselves as native americans to board a british vessel and they dumped 90,000 pounds of tea. -
Intolerable acts
The intolerable acts had four laws. Law one forced boston harbor to be shutdown until the colonists paid for the lost tea.The second law stated the colonys legislature could only meet when the governer commanded, and they canceled the massachusets charter. Law three moved trials of royal officials to england so they got a fair trial.Law four mde colonists house british soldiers. -
Battle of lexington/concord
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Battle of bunker hill
After the British retreated militia waited for reinforcmentsbefore they held boston under siege.The british prepared to take charlestown, but the colonies dug defensive trenches.The british carried on with the assault mostly attacking breeds hill. colonists reatreated loosing some 400 men while thebritish lost more than 1,000. -
common sense
Common sense was a pamphlet about breaking away from britain. colonists bought about 120,000. Eventually throught Europe and the colonies reached 500,000 copies sold. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is a historical document stating the colonys independence frome britain. -
Battle of saratoga
Burgoyne moved his troops into york. Burgoyne and his men were outnumbered by Howes men and Burgoyne suffered a major defeat at the battle of saratoga giving the colonists a major victory. -
Battle of yorktown
General washington and Rochambu joined lafayettes forces. and there french allies surround the fortress. And the british were outnumberd. while this was happening the french fleet kept british reinforcements from arriving. Fearing a bloody defeat genaral cornwallis surrenders. -
Treaty of paris
The Treaty of Paris ended the war and made peace beetween the colonys and britain.
