The American Revolution And the Events that Led up to it

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The American RevolutionAnd the Events that Led
up to it

• By Megan And
• Xavier

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The Molasses Act

• The Molasses act took place in 1733. The Molasses
  act put taxes on, Sugar, and molasses. This made
  the Colonist REALLY mad because they had to pay
  more money.

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French and Indian War

• The French and the Indians fought against the
  British and the American over the land. It
  started in 1754 and ended in 1763. The British
  And the colonist won the war. French Lost ALL
  there territory except for New Orleans. After the
  war many colonist moved across the mountains not
  afraid that the French would attack!

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The Proclamation of 1763

• King George made a law that they cant move west
  over the Appalachian Mountains. King George Told
  them that the could not spend or use their money.
  

• The Colonist were VERY angry at King George.

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The Stamp Act

• People had to get a stamp on 54 kinds of papers.
  You had to get a stamp on playing cards, a
  collage diploma, news papers, licenses, and
  wills. You had to pay a I cent for a newspaper
  ten dollars for a college diploma and you had to
  pay in gold or silver.

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The Townshend Act

• The Townshend act was made in 1767. You had to
  pay a tax on tea, paint, glass and paper. Many
  colonist refused to pay the taxes.

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The Sons Of Liberty and Their Motto

• A club was made named The Sons Of Liberty. Their
  Motto was Join or Die. The Members broke into the
  Tax Collectors and beat them. Then they burned
  all the stamp taxes.

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The Boston Massacre

• The Boston massacre all started when the
  colonists were throwing snowballs at some British
  soldiers. When the British soldiers got mad they
  started to fire their guns. The first person that
  died was a former slave named Crispick Attucks.

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The Boston Tea party

• The Boston Tea Party was when about 50 guys
  dressed up as Mohawk Indians. They were getting
  sick of paying for tea that nobody was drinking.
  So those 50 men went on to a boat and threw 342
  cases chest of tea over bored.

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The First Continental Congress

• The Continental Congress was when all of the
  colonies, except for Georgia, got together and
  discussed the Boston tea party. It is also when
  the British passed another law called the
  Intolerable Acts. The Intolerable acts were when
  the British closed the harbor, the British
  soldiers had to live with the colonists, they
  couldnt have meetings, and if they did a crime
  they had to b shipped to England.

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The Minute Men and Paul Revere

• The minute men were named the minute men because
  they were ready to fight in a minute.
• Paul is important because when the British were
  coming he rode around Boston and Lexington
  yelling The British are coming! The British are
  coming!
• The British were coming because John Hancock and
  Samuel Adams had a hiding spot in Lexington. So
  they were coming to arrest them.
• They decided to arrest John Hancock, Samuel
  Adams, and Paul Revere when they got arrested
  they all got out safely.

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The Battle of Lexington and Concord.

• The first of the Battle of Lexington and Concord
  took place was called The shot heard round
  world.
• Because the impact of the war that it fallowed.
• The British Commander in Boston sent some
  soldiers to get gun powder and guns.

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Bunker Hill

• The hill was named Breeds Hill after its owner.
• They thought it was Bunker Hill because Bunker
  Hill was really close.
• When the British Commander sent his army up the
  hill but the were forced back by the Americans.
• The Colonist lost 140 soldiers but the British
  soldiers lost about 1,000!

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The Second Continental Congress!

• The Continental Congress all met in Philadelphia.
  
• Congress voted that the other 13 colonies should
  send some stuff for the war.
• They wanted George Washington to be the
  Commander-in-chief of the new army.
• George Washington also fought in the French and
  Indian War.

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A Famous Person

• A famous person is Molly Pitcher. Her real name
  was Molly Ludwig. She would sew, cook and give
  water to the men that were in the war. Her
  nickname was Molly Pitcher because she would
  bring water out to the men with a pitcher.

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The Early Battles

• The early battles took place around New York.
  When the British went to sleep the Americans
  built a fake fort and put cannons in it. When the
  British woke up they saw the fake forts with the
  cannons and thought it was a real fort so the
  went to Boston with out a fight.

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The Battle of Saratoga

• In winter of 1776 George Washington and all of
  his men camped in Pennsylvania. On Christmas Eve
  all of them crossed the Delaware River to attack
  a group of Hessians. On October 1777 the
  Americans beat the British. The French Helped the
  Americans by supplying money and other stuff. The
  Americans could have NEVER won the war without
  the French.

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Valley Forge and the End of the War

• The British were camped in Philadelphia when the
  Americans were 30 miles away in Valley Forge. The
  Americans were hungry and cold. Americans got
  money from France. The British Army was lead by a
  man named Cornwallis. In 1783 the British and the
  Americans signed the Peace Treaty.