Chapters 6 – 8 Review

French and Indian War  1754: Albany Plan of Union  1754 – 1763: 7 Years War  1763: 4 HUGE EVENTS!  End of French and Indian War  End of Salutary Neglect  Pontiac’s Rebellion  Proclamation Line of 1763

1760s  Britain is in DEBT!  Answer?  Tax the colonists  Sugar Act: 1764  Purpose to raise revenue  Colonists Smuggled  Stamp Act: 1765  Tax on 50 Commonly used goods  Colonists = 

1760s…..  Stamp Act Congress: 1765 – 27 delegates – 9 colonies  Congress….. Colonies  First attempt at colonial unity AGAINST British  Also had nonimportation agreements  Sons and Daughters of Liberty – sometimes violent – cause shut down of the system – Repealed 1766 BUT THEN…  Declaratory Act: 1766  Britain can pass ALL laws (including taxes) in the future  Townshend Acts: 1767  Tax on imports (tea, glass, etc.)  Also repealed

1770s  Boston Massacre: 1770  5 colonists are killed, no British soldiers  Tea Act: 1773  Bail out British East India Company  Colonists are   Committees of Correspondence – Sam Adams  This leads to……..  Boston Tea Party: December 1773  Sons of Liberty  This leads to……(A REVOLUGTION IS BREWING)

1770s……  Intolerable/Coercive Acts (1774)  Closed port of Boston until damages were paid  Quartering Act  This leads to……  1 st Continental Congress (1774)  Colonial unity AGAINST the British

Side Note: Quebec Act: 1774  Extended boundaries of French Canada  Granted Canadians right to practice Catholicism  With the Québec Act, Britain created a centralized colonial government for Canada and extended that colony’s administrative control south west to the Ohio River, invalidating the sea-to-sea boundaries of many colonial charters.

1770s……  Lexington and Concord: April 1775  “Shot heard round the world”  Start of the Revolutionary War  Second Continental Congress: May 1775  Managed War Effort, eventually moved towards independence  De Facto Government  Olive Branch Petition: July 1775  Attempt to avoid full-blown war with Britain

1770s……..  Common Sense: January 1776  Thomas Paine (T-Paine)  Urged Colonists to break away from England  Declaration of Independence: 1776  Formally broke away  Influences: Enlightenment – John Locke  Too Late..... Too Late.....

Revolutionary War  Battle of Saratoga: 1777  Significance: France enters war on behalf of the colonists  Turning point in the war!  Battle of Yorktown: 1781  Last major battle  Peace of Paris: 1783