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Great Awakening
The Great Awakening was a time when the church ministers believed the colonists had forgotten about religion, so they went to the colonies and preached the gospel -
The French and Indian War
The French and Indian war was a fight in the colonies between Great Britian and France in North America. -
The Proclomation
The proclamation was issued in 1763 to end the war. It was to stabilize the trust and trade between the colonies and Great Britian. -
Sugar Act
The sugar act was when Britian taxed the colonies for any sugar bought and shipped over seas. The big thing was this was the first time they tried to tax the colonies. -
Stamp Act
The stamp act came the next year and put a tax on paper anything printed, and newspapers. -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend act was a set of laws given for the colonists to follow to stay in order in the colonies. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was based on a soldier killing five colonists. The guard fired shots injuring two people and killing three and later on those two injured people died. -
Tea Act
The tea act was when Britian put tax on tea shipped over the seas and the colonists did not respond very happily. The reason for this was they bought over 1 million pounds of tea a year. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston tea party was a time when the colonist were just taxed for tea, so men dressed up as British soldiers went and dumped over 10,000 pounds of tea in the ocean. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable acts were laws, really punishments put on the colonists by king GeorgeIII for what they had done with the tea. -
Battle of Lexington/Concord
The battle of Lexington/Concord was the first battle of the Revolutionary war. The battle consisted of the kings men from Great Britian and the thirteen colonies. -
Battle Of Bunker Hill
The battle of Bunker Hill was fought in the begenning of the war also, in was a conflict over land. The kings men tried to sneak around but the colonists men found out and sent 1,200 men to take them out. -
Common Sense
Common Sense was a pamphlet writtin by Thomas Paine in hard times for the colonists, so his book became an immediate success. He connected independence with Protestants beliefs. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence was a document signed to declare freedom in the colonies and to show that they were free from Britian. -
Battle of Saratoga
The Battle of Saratoga was one of the greatest wars in america, it was when the kings men came over with higher trained forces than George Washingtons men and the kings men took them out. -
Battle of Yorktown
The battle of Yorktown was one of the last battles fought in the Revolutionairy war and it was called the fight for freedom. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris was a signed paper by the colonists and Britian, and the allies. This document ended the Revolutionairy war.
