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The french and Indian War was a war over who got the ORV or the Ohio River Valley. The people involved in the war were the French, Indians, and British. The French wanted to keep the trees because they were trappers. The Indians simply wanted to keep there land. The British wanted too expand their territory. George Washington was sent to fight in the war. He thought very highly of him self, he ended up not winning that part of war. Britain won the war. Benjamin Franklin made the Join or Die slogan as a symbol for the colonies to unite

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Sugar Act- taxed coffee, sugar, and clothe
Stamp Act- any document
Townshend Act- tea, paint ,glass, lead, coffee

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The Americans responded by boycotting the products. So the British would would repeal the taxes, but later they would just add more.

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The fact that non of the colonist could sit in parliament and vote on these taxes.

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Took place in Boston in front of the State House. Many colonist surrounded a few British soldiers and started to throw sticks, rocks, and snowballs at the soldiers. In the confusion the soliders fire on the colonists.

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Famously, Paul Revere draws propaganda showing soldiers firing on colonists.

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The British kept the tax on tea. So the Sons of Liberty dressed up as Indians, boarded three ships, and dumped the tea into the Boston Harbor.

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This made the British very angry. They added new laws called they Intolerable Acts.

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Paul Revere went into Lexington and told the people living there that the British were coming, this was not a lie. The British came to Lexington to arrest Samuel Adams and John Hancock. When the British arrived 77 Militia were there, The British had 700 soldiers. Someone fired a gun, no one knows who fired that gun, but after that many guns fired.

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After the British soldiers were done in Lexington they headed to Concord to gather weapons from the people and burn them. After the British were done burning they headed back to Boston, what they didn't know is the Militia had been hiding at a bride. The Militia started to attack and harass the British Soldiers. This was the beginning of our Revolutionary War.

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The Declaration of Independence was a document that was written by The 2nd Continental Congress. Thomas Jefferson was the main author of the document. The main things the document was about were how a government should be run, the colonist get to state which taxes were unfair, and the colonist were free from Britain. Many people singed this document. It took the colonist many tries to make this document, but once they were finished they duplicated it and sent it off to King George III. The document is now at the National Archives in Washington DC.