French and Indian War

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French and Indian War
How the Revolotionary War Began
Proclamation of 1763
Tea Act
1763
Stamp Act
Intolerable Acts
Townshend Acts
1773
1765
1774
1767
Boston Massacre
Boston Tea Party
1773
1770

• 1754-1763

Chris Adams
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The French and Indian War

• The French and Indian War was started in
  1754 and ended in 1763. It was caused by people
  fighting over French land. It caused the British
  army to start a nine year war with the French and
  Indian soldiers. The French and Indian side
  still lost to the British army. The effect was
  that the cost of the war had greatly enlarged
  Britain's debt.

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The Proclamation of 1763

• The Proclamation of 1763 was started
  because of the British leaders wanting no more
  wars with other people. This law was saying that
  no one could settle west of the Appalachians.
  The land west of the Appalachians would remain
  the Indians territory. Owning land was important
  to the settlers. If you owned land you where
  allowed to vote. If you had no land you had no
  position in society. Many people just ignored
  the law. To watch the colonists King George had
  ten thousand British soldiers watch the colonists
  and make sure that they didnt pass the
  Appalachian Mountains.

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The Stamp Act

• The parliament passed the stamp Act in 1765.
  The colonists rebelled and rioted. The British
  were taxing everybody on all legal documents.
  Everything was taxed like newspapers,
  advertisement, even playing cards. The colonist
  reacted with rage. The colonial merchants
  organized a boycott of all British goods. Some
  people from the American colonies started secret
  societies and they called themselves the Sons of
  Liberty.

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Townshend Acts

• The Townshend Acts was passed in 1767 and it was
  a law that taxed on paper, lead, glass, paint and
  on tea. The kings finance minister, Charles
  Townshend made the law. He was no friend of the
  colonists because, he said that he had a way to
  tax the colonies with offence. The colonists
  also found out that the extra duties were
  actually excuses to raise revenue. The colonists
  started to boycott all British goods.

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The Boston Massacre

• The Boston Massacre happen in 1770. The Boston
  Massacre was all started when angry colonists
  started throwing snowballs at the group of
  soldiers in front of the Boston Customhouse. One
  soldier slipped and fell and his gun shot off.
  Then another soldier got nervous and started
  shooting. The other soldiers started firing too.
  The sad part of this story was that five people
  where killed including Crispus Attucks a former
  slave.

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The Tea Act

• The Tea Act was Started in 1773. It was a act
  aimed to help the British east India Company by
  giving it total control on the American tea
  trade. This tea would be even cheaper than
  smuggled tea. However the colonists still had to
  pay tax on tea.

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The Boston Tea Party

• The Boston Tea Party was in 1773. It was when
  the American colonists, dressed as the Mohawk
  Indians starting dumping tea into the Boston
  Harbor. Benjamin Franklin even said that he
  would pay for the tea that was dumped into the
  Boston Harbor. He asked for the British to
  repeal the Tea Act.

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The Intolerable Acts

• The Intolerable Acts happened in 1774. It was
  when the they closed the port of Boston. They
  allowed British officials commanders troops to
  stay wherever necessary. They greatly restricted
  representative government in Massachusetts. They
  allowed the British officials to stand trail if
  they where accused of a crime.