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The French and Indian war was for land, the Ohio river valley. The french wanted it so the could hunt animals because they were fur trappers and the British wanted it because they wanted to expand their terriorty  and the Indians wanted to stay in their land. The British ended up winning the war and got the land. They signed a treaty to end the war. Benjerman franklin made a slogan that he hoped would unite the colonists

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The British made taxes like
Sugar act- taxed coffee and sugar
Stamp act- taxed anything on paper
Townshend act- lead paint and glass

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The Americans were not happy and
they started to boycott the British and formed the sons of liberty group

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The fact that none of the colonists could sit in parliament and vote on these taxes.

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Took place in Boston in front of the state house. Many colonists surrounded a few British soldiers and started to throw snowballs, sticks, and rocks. then they fired out of confusion

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Paul revere drew a propaganda to get people in the revolution

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The British kept the tax on tea so the sons of liberty dressed up as indians, boarded 3 ships, and threw boxes of tea into the boston harbor

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This made the British very angry so they added new laws called the Intorable acts.

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The battles of Lexington and concord started the Revolutionary war. The British were coming to arrest the leaders of the sons of liberty.
Samuel Adams and John Hancock.
Paul Revere was sent to tell the people that the British were coming. 77 Americans were waiting for the British. 700 British troops were coming for weapons and ammunition. When they found the weapons the British burned them so the Americans cant use them.

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After the British went to Lexington they went to Concord.
Concord had a lot of weapons and ammunition. The British were planning on burning the weapons and the ammunition so the American Milita cannot use the weapons. Little did they know the Americans were waiting for them.
8 colonists lay dead, and 1 British soldier wounded.
These were the battles that kicked off the revolutionary war.

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The declaration of independence was what told King George the third what a government should look like,  what taxes were unfair, and that we are free from England.
It was wrote by Thomas Jefferson, But the 2nd contiment congress had the idea to tell him to write it.
It was signed by, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and John Hancock. The declaration of Independence declared war on Great Britain.