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New England Colonies

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Massachusetts
New Hampsure
Rhode Island
Conneticut

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Middle colonies

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New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware

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Chesapeeke

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Maryldand
Virginia

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Southern

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North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia

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New England Colonies Econimics

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focused on rum ships iron and fish

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Middle colonies Economics

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iron
specifically delaware focused on tobacco

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Chesapeeke economic

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focused on tobacco naval supplies furs skins cattle and grain

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Southern economic

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focused on rice indigo naval supplies

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all colonies have these in common

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Economics - furs skins lumber cattle grain
Settlers- English, Jews (except chesapeeke), French Huguenots, Scotish

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Middle Orgins of settlers

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German
Dutch
Welsh
Swedes

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Chesapeeke Orgins of settlers

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Africans
Germans

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Southern Orgins of settlers

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Africans
Highland Scots
German
Welsh

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New England and Middle slaves

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worked on non plantation, worked as farm hands, artisan shops, and personal servants

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Chesapeeke Slaves

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mainly tobacco, some skilled crafts,, cooks, seamstress, dairy maids, servants on fam farms

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Southern Slaves

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rice based plantation worked in farms tending live stock
some militia

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Mercantilism

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Gold and silver should flow in to mother country then leave

Exports should exceed imports

Produce raw product for mother country and purchasable manufactured from mother

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Navigation Acts

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Must be transported in English ships and sold through English ports

Goods transported into colonies where customs must be paid

stimulated new England’s ship building

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Salutery Neglect

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leaves colonies to govern themselves

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Non Importation

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prohibits the import of goods

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tension between 10 and ebenezer

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ebenezer shot 10

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British plan for excess tea

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monopolized the tea and forced colonist to pay with taxes

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Intolerable Acts

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closed Boston harbor, hobbled the legislative, banned most tea , and expanded quatering

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ratio between red coats and bostonians

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1:4

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Stamp Act

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used to pay British troops in colonies and war debts this required colonist to pay a tax on paper

it was protested by boycott and harass

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Stamp Act Congress

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a solution to stamp act
9 delegates sent

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Townshend Acts

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used to increase revenue for G.B
Full power to parliment
on paper, glass, tea, and lead

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French and Indian War (Ohio River Valley)

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Fur
Virginia creates Ohio company and claims 1/2 mil acre (includes G.Wash and told French they gotta go 1753)

French fortify
indians side w french

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Albany Plan of Uniton

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created by franklin in 1754
Ny is setting
No Unity
7/13 sent

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How G.W starts war

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at fort necessity G.W brings indians and soldiers resulting in french officer death
G.W took the blame

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Battle of Monongahalla

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G.W first sign of combat and leadership were losing

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Fight of Quebec (1759) and Montreal (1760)

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Put french out and last time french flags fly in CA

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first treay of Paris

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Between Britts and French
removed french
finicial conflict proclamation of 1763 none west of the APP

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Paul rivere

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produced British propaganda na dmidnight rider

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Comitte of Correspondence

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mid 1760s, found ways around stamp act multiple grooups
first sign of unity
most members were elites

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Sons of linerty

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more members of society
and public protest
lead by samuel Adams and handcock

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First Continental Congress

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1774 sept- oct
12/13 meet Georgia no shows
agree to boycott and non importation
militia is formed
meet in 1 year if things don’t go well

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Loyalist (Tories)

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Carolina, Georgia, and New York had loyalists, some in Jersey/Penn
20,000 fought with Britts and wore green

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timeline

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1766- Stamp act
–commitees of corespondence
–sons of liberty
1767- Townshend Acts
1770- Boston Masacare
1773- Boston Tea Party
–intolerable Acts
1774- First Continental Congress
1775- Lexington and Concord
–Buncar Hill
–Sons Continental Congress
–1776 Thomas Paine common sense and siege of Bostona

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1775 independce

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British depart for Lexington stopping for Hancock and adams
then march to Concord to take stockpile

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Lexington Green April 19 1775

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70 minute men vs G.B 7 dead start war

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June 17 Buncar Hill

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america lost but know they can fight
they ran because they ran out of ammo
>500:1000

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Second Continetnal Congress May 1775

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13/13
create Continetnal armyy (June 19 G.W is the leader)

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Declaration of causes
and
Olive Branch Petition

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why we fight

pleed for peace
both refused and took effense

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Thomas Payne Common Sense

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150,000 copies of the panphlet sold donated all profit to Continental army

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Siege of Boston

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Dorchester Heights 60 canons positioned over Boston without notice
British evac on March 17 1776

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1776 timeline

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June 7- Lee resolution proposed free colonies
June 11 committed of draft declaration, foreign alliances, and confederation formed
July 2nd Lee resolution voted o 12 for 0 against 1 abstain (NY)
July 4– langue of Declaration approved

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American Revolution

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Britt embarrass G.W on statin in 1776, there goal was to capture G.W
Rain and fog prevented the war from ending
G.W strat RUN until time
time was at Christmas in Trenton in Dec 26 and cross Delaware to capture trenton and the hessians and took dub at Princeton

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Battle of Saratoga (1777)

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Britt captain dont like each other ( John B from Quebec and William H from NY) William didn’t come this allows dub for =colonies and Benedict Arnold is hero but not recognised haratio gates is recognised
turning point
Britt surenreder 5000 prisoners of war and were provided a navy and soldiers from France Spain and Europe

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War in the South

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Britt used army+loyal+slaves+back country farmers
20,000 in south fight Britts using gorilla war fare hid in trees hit and run
Savannah captured in 1778 and charleston 1780 and camden captured by britts
Gates humiliated and lowest point of war

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THE END

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American gets Cowpens and Guilford courthouse and has Britts run to York town where they would get met by french navy in 1781 unnofical end

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1780

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Lowest point of the war for America Charleston falls defeat at Camden, Bennedict Arnold becomes traitor

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Black Participation

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Brit offered freedom to blacks if they fought they followed through with this and gave them freedom in Canada ending with 20,000 that helped Britts 15 to CA others to W africa

also served in continental and given freedom if subbing for a white

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Treaty of Paris 1783

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America received recognition as independent gain control of Canada to fl and cut off at the mississippi
Loyalist were not persecuted but were supposed to be given old supplies back that did not happen most went to Canada or back to britt

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