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| British colonies | located along the Atlantic Coast; Population- about 2,000,000 |
| French colonies | located along the St. Lawrence River valley, the Great Lakes, and the Mississippi River valley; population- about 100,000 |
| 1755 | British general Braddock tries to attack Fr. Ft. Duquesne;French and their Indians defeat Braddock |
| 1756 | the war spreads to Europe( european phase of the war will be called the 7 year war- because this phase lasts from 1756-1763 |
| 1757 | William Pitt named british prime minister; pitt helps turn the war around for Britian; he spends more money ( and borrows heavily) on the war |
| 1759 | British seize Quebec; Spain also joins France's side |
| 1760 | British seize Montreal |
| 1763 | French surrender |
| Treaty of Paris | 1763; canada and all of the land east of the Mississippi are given to Britian; spain cedes Florida to Britian; France cedes louisana to spain; France is allowed to keep several islands off the coast of Canada and several in the Carribean |
| 1760 | George III, becomes king of Great Britian |
| 1761 | ( challenged writs of assistance)James Otis was a boston lawyer who challenged these general search warrants in court;he lost, but many in boston supported him |
| 1763 | Pontiac's Rebellion; western Indian chief Pontiac, and his Indian allies,upset that the French had lost the French and Indian War and realizing that British settlers would soon head across the Appalachian mountains, attacked British forts and settlements |
| Proclamation of 1763 | British policy that says that the colonists may not go west of the Appalachian Mountains |
| Greenville Tax & Revenue Program | to prevent smuggling, there will be British ship patrols, more writs of assistance, and trials without juries |
| Sugar Act, 1764 | this replaces the 1733 Molasses Act, lowers the tax to 3 cents |
| Molasses Act | imposed a tax of 6 cents a gallon on non-British imported sugar |
| Currency Act,1764 | the colonist may not make any more of their own paper money |
| Stamp Act, 1765 | the colonist had to buy,and put a special stamp ( costing from1/2 penny to 10 British pounds) on a number of paper products, including legal documents,newspapers,pamphlets, etc; the Stamp Act was a direct, or internal tax |
| Quartering Act, 1765 | the colonist had to provide housing for British troops stationed in the colonies |
| Stamp Act Congress, 165 | this is meeting of 9 colonies in NYC |
| Sons of Liberty | organized-originally- to protest the Stamp act; Bostonian Sam Adams helped form it |
| Nonimportation Agreements,1765 | groups of merchants in the major colonial cities signed agreements( non-importation agreements) not to buy (i.e, not import British goods until Stamp Act was repealed |
| Declaration Act,1766 | in this act, Parliament asserted that they ( parliament) had the right to pass any law that affected colonies |
| Quartering Act | NY & MA refused to obey it |
| Charles Townshend | British Chancellor of the Exchequer |
| Townshend Acts,1767 | new taxes imported paper, glass, lead, paint & tea ( these were external, or indirect taxes), Board of Customs Commissioners could issue more writs of assistance, i.e to catch smugglers,suspended NY Assembly |
| Boston Masacre | March 5,1770; British soldiers stationed in Boston, a crowd of yound men, in front of the Boston Customs house, begin to taunt British soldiers; soldiers panicked and 5 Bostonians were killed |
| Committees of Correspondence, 1772 | organized partly by Sam adams; these were groups of Americans in a colony who communicated( i.e corresponded) with Americans in another colony( especially about what the British were doing in each colony) |
| Gaspee Incident,1772 | radical rhode islanders burn a British customs ship |
| The Tea Act,1773 | the Tea Act allowed the British East India Co. to ship its tea directly to America; the Co. did not have to pay the English (i.e Navigation Act) tax on the tea; the colonists still had to pay the Townshend Act tax on the tea; ( one effect of the act was that it made the British east India Co. tea cheaper than any other tea the colonist could import |
| December 16, 1773 Boston Tea Party | after a town meeting in Boston, approximately 60 Bostonians, led by Sam Adams and John Hancock, disguised as Indians, disguised as Indians, Boarded the 3 tea ships and burned 342 chest to tea into the harbor |
| radicals( patriots) | those colonist who increasingly feel that Britain is violating there rights( many will soon support independence from Britain) |
| Tories ( loyalist) | those colonists who are loyal to Britian, and will not want to break away |
| apathetic,or indifferent | those colonists who do not take sides in the conflict between the Patriots and the British government |
| Continental Congress (first) | 55 delegates meet in Philadelphia, Sept. 5,1774 |
| Winter, 1774-1775 | minutemen organize |
| Lexington & Concord, April 19,1775 | Gov. Thomas Gage sends 700 British troops, evening of April 18 in order to seize rebel military supplies, and to try to capture radical leaders sam Adams and John Hancock |
