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| Treaty of Paris, 1763 | Canada and all of the land east of the Mississippi given to Britain; Spain cedes Florida to Britian |
| French and Indian war | 1754-1763; rivals in Europe and for colonies in America |
| Pontiac's Rebellion | 1763 western Indian chief Pontiac, and his Indian allies, upset that the French lost war decide to attack British forts and settlements |
| Proclamation act | 1763, British policy that say that the colonies may not go west of the Appalachian mountains |
| Sugar act | 1764, this replaces the molasses act, sugar act lowered the tax 3 cents |
| Stamp Act | 1765, the colonist had to buy and put a special tax on a number of paper products |
| Stamp act congress | 1765 meeting of 9 colonies in NYC |
| Sons of liberty | Led much of the rioting; Sam Adams helped form it |
| Currency act | 1764 the colonist may not make anymore of their own paper money |
| Quartering act | 1765 the colonist had to provide housing for British troops stationed in the colonies |
| Declaratory act | 1766, in this act, parliament asserted that they ( parliament) had the right to pass any law that affected the colonies |
| Townsend act | 1767, new taxes on imported paper, glass, lead, paint, and tea |
| Boston massacre | March 5, 1770 a crowd of young men antagonized soldiers ; 8 died |
| Gaspee incident | Radical Rhode Islanders burn a British customs ship |
| Committees of correspondence | Organized partly by Sam Adams, these were groups of Americans in a colony who communicated with Americans in another country |
| Tea act | Bring from India to America; only from British East Indian company; felt it was forming a monopoly |
| Boston tea party | December 16,1773; approximately 60 Bostonians, led by Sam Adams and John Hancock, disguised as indians(342 chest) |
| Intolerable acts | Parliaments reaction to Boston tea party was swift and harsh |
| Quebec act | Allowed Catholics to practice there religion and lowered the southern boundary of British Canada to Ohio river |
| First continental congress | 55 delegates meet in Philadelphia , September 5, 1774 |
| Olive branch petition | This petition was a request for peaceful negotiation with king George III |
| Lexington and Concord | April 19,1775; governor Thomas have sends 700 British troops evening of April 18, Paul revere,William Dave's, Samuel Prescott; British fire at minute men killing 8 |
| Second continental congress | Met on may 10,1775 ; raise an army, appoint G. Washington commander-in-chief of the continental army |
| Bunker hill | June 17,1775 ; the British tried to fight their way out of Boston, American take hill from britian |
| 3 main parts of DOI | Compact theory of government, reasons for desperation and grievance against king George |
| French alliance | Americans |
| Tories(loyalist) | Colonist that stay faithful to British |
| Saratoga | October 17,1777, Americans won, victory will convince French to help them out( not openly at first) |
| Treaty of Paris 1783 | After Yorktown, British agreed to negotiate ; British recognize American independence |
