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Proclamation of 1763

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British declaration that forbade colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mts.

Colonists’ Reactions:
colonists settled west anyways
(SCREW YOU GREAT BRITAIN!)

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Currency Act

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colonists could not coin their own currency-had to use British pound

Colonists’ Reactions
opposed-interrupted trade especially with French

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Sugar Act

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placed tax on sugar, molasses, rum, and other products

Colonists’ Reactions:

  • hurt businesses
  • threat to rights
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Quartering Act

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act requiring colonists to house British soldiers

Colonists’ Reactions:

  • anxiety
  • colonists feared Parliament intended to use troops to control their movements and restrict their freedom
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Stamp Act

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law that required all legal documents to carry an official stamp to show that tax was paid
*REPEALED

Colonists’ Reactions:

  • petitioned the King
  • boycott British goods
  • Sons of Liberty
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Townsend Acts

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  • placed duties (tax) on imports to the colonies
  • allowed British officers to issue writs of assistance (search warrants)-search for illegal and smuggled goods
  • REPEALED DUE TO BOYCOTTS

Colonists’ Reactions

  • boycott
  • protests-MA
  • Daughters of Liberty
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Boston Massacre

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  • British soldiers arrive in Boston
  • colonists and youth surrounded British soldiers in the State House
  • crowd grew bigger-mob
  • soldiers feared for their safety and fired-killed 5

Colonists Reactions:
-John Adams defended soldiers-aquitted
-colonists saw Boston Massacre as a sign of
British tyranny

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Tea Act

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  • law gave the East Indian Company the exclusive right to sell tea in the colonies
  • restricted colonists from acting as shippers and merchants of tea
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Boston Tea Party

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-group of men, disguised as Native Americans, boarded tea ships and broken and threw tea chests overboard- 342 chests to protest the Tea Act

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Colonists’ Reactions to the Tea Act/ Boston Tea Party

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  • Committees of Correspondence were formed to secretly exchange info about British policies and American resistance
  • protests and tea smuggling
  • offered to pay for tea if Tea Act was repealed- refused by Parliament
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Intolerable Acts/ Coercive Acts

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  • closed Boston port (Boston Port Bill)
  • banned town meetings (Massachusetts Government Act)
  • replaced elected government into an appointed one
  • increased royal governor’s power
  • British soldiers cannot be tried by colonists (Administration of Justice Act)
  • quartering of British officers (Quartering Act)
  • extended the Canadian borders to cut off the western colonies of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Virginia. (Quebec Act)

Colonists Reactions:

  • colonies sent food and money to Boston
  • refuse to buy from Britain
  • First Continental Congress
  • colonies trained troops
  • committee of correspondence
  • boycott
  • provincial Congress in MA
  • militia prepared to fight
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Lexington

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700 British v 70 militiamen

  • no one knows who fired first
  • 8 militiamen dead
  • colonists retreated and British continued to Concord

Colonists Reactions:
The Siege of Boston
-militia attacked Fort Ticonderoga to steal cannon to secure Boston
-Second Continental Congress

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Who led the Second Continental Congress?

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John Hancock

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Concord

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-British destroyed what was left of the military supplies since most was already relocated by the militia
-4,000 militiamen came
1,000 British came as well
-as British retreated to Boston, they were fired upon by the militia all the way back to Boston

Colonists’ Reactions:

  • Continental Army formed- George Washing ton as general
  • Battle of Bunker Hill
  • Olive Branch Petition
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Common Sense

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pamphlet that convinced Americans it was time to fight for independence
-Thomas Paine

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What were the Intolerable Acts? What were they also called?

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  • Tea Act and Boston Port Act

- Coercive Act

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What two acts were repealed by Parliament?

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Stamp Act and the Townsend Act

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In which act did the colonists start to take action?

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Stamp Act

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Two decisions made by First Continental Congress

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  1. Unify the colonies as a whole

2. Picked Washington to lead the newly-formed army

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Objectives of Paul Revere’s Ride

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  1. To save the leaders of the Sons of Liberty (John Hancock and Samuel Adams
  2. To prevent ammunition from being destroyed
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Olive Branch Petition

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Last effort to make peace between the colonies and Britain

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DOI

  1. When?
  2. Who wrote it?
  3. Treason?
  4. Where?
  5. Slavery?
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  1. July 4, 1776
  2. Thomas Jefferson
  3. YES!!
  4. Philadelphia, PA
  5. Jefferson originally wrote that slavery would be outlawed in the land, but the South opposed this part of the document and, therefore, this part was removed (unanimous vote required in order for the vote of independence to carry)
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DOI 5 parts?

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  1. Preamble
  2. The Rights of the People to Control Government
  3. Tyrannical Acts of the King
  4. Efforts to Avoid Separation
  5. Colonies Declare Independence
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first shot fired at?

colonist ammo storage located in?

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Lexington

Concord

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advice

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listen to Hamilton music when studying hehe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8c96ZihbfA&index=1&list=PLKhd4xXHagmqPx0dRACeub6y6EKJvAQGw

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