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2. PROCLAMATION OF 1763: England won the French and Indian War. As a result, France lost all of her land in North America. England gained the land. However, it was a very expensive war. The government could not afford a war with Native Americans. To prevent a war, the English government attempted to stop American colonists from moving onto Indian land. Americans were not allowed to cross the Proclamation Line and move onto Indian land. American colonists did not obey because they wanted the cheap/free land to farm on.

Iroquois supported the English.

Hurons supported the French.

Started over the Ohio River Valley area.

•STEPS TO THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: 1. FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR: 1754-1763

1754: Albany Plan of Union

-Proposed by Ben Franklin to get the colonies to join together for common defense. Would create council to run colonies.

-Colonies turned down plan.

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Proclamation Line of 1763

•The English government (Parliament) began passing taxes to raise money to help pay back the expenses of the war. The following taxes are a direct result of England’s winning the French and Indian War. These taxes were passed by Parliament without colonial representation.

1. Sugar Act: Tax on sugar, coffee, and molasses.

2. Currency Act: Colonists had to pay debts in gold or silver. 3. Stamp Act: Tax on legal papers, newspapers, cards, ads. 4. Townshend Acts: Writs of Assistance, taxes on lead, paper, glass, and tea. 5. Tea Act (Tax): Tax on tea.

•American Response: American colonists angry with taxes due to the lack of representation. “No Taxation Without Representation.” Colonists responded by doing the following:

1. Boycott British goods. 2. Smuggling goods into the country to avoid taxes. 3. Forming groups such as Sons of Liberty and Daughters of Liberty. 4. Colonists speak out about taxes and protest in front of government buildings. 5. Boston Tea Party.

•Boston Massacre: Colonists in Boston protesting government. Soldiers fired on colonists.

•Sons of Liberty made British look bad in order to gain support from colonists.

•Boston Tea Party: Colonists boarded merchant ships and dumped tea into Boston Harbor as a protest.

•American protests to Stamp Act.

•England passed laws to punish the colonies: The Intolerable Acts 1. Port of Boston closed 2. Power of royal governor increased 3. Colonists had to quarter British soldiers 4. British troops sent to Boston to enforce law.

•Colonies hold meeting: First Continental Congress (1774) 1. Colonies had right to make laws 2. Organized a boycott of British goods

•The Americans began building up military supplies. The British in Boston sent a force of 700 soldiers to find the supplies. The American minute men meet them at Lexington and then at Concord. This is the beginning of the American Revolution.

•Paul Revere rode to warn the colonists that the British were coming.

•Quartering Act: American colonists forced to allow British soldiers to live in their homes.

Battle of Lexington

Battle of ConcordBritish retreat to Boston

•Second Continental Congress (1775): 1. Created Continental Army under George Washington 2. Sent Olive Branch Petition to King George (Rejected it)

•Battle of Bunker Hill: June 17, 1775 -British attack Americans. Americans forced to retreat, but over 1,000 British killed or wounded.

•British charged twice and were beaten back. Americans ran out of ammunition and retreated on 3rd charge. British took the hill on 3rd charge.

Boston

•Americans built defenses on Breed’s Hill within cannon shot of Boston. British had to take hill in order to protect Boston.

REBEL- PATRIOT TORY- LOYALIST

•Congress declares independence: Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson, issued on July 4th, 1776. -All men are created equal -Government gets its power from the people -Main purpose of government is to protect the rights of the people

Hessians• Battle of Saratoga: Turning point of the American Revolution.

1.British army captured with weapons and equipment.

2.French enter war on Americans side.

3.American moral increases.

•Washington crossing Delaware to attack Trenton: Americans defeat Hessians. •The American

Revolution ends with the British surrender at Yorktown. British General Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown.

•The US and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Paris in 1783.