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Events Leading Up To The Revolutionary War By: John Thomas Evans

Events Leading Up To The Revolutionary War By: John Thomas Evans. The French and Indian War. The clamming of Ohio river valley by the British and French is what started the war. The war started in 1754 and lasted almost 10 years.

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Events Leading Up To The Revolutionary War By: John Thomas Evans

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  1. Events Leading Up To The Revolutionary WarBy: John Thomas Evans

  2. The French and Indian War • The clamming of Ohio river valley by the British and French is what started the war. • The war started in 1754 and lasted almost 10 years. • The Native Americans teamed with French because the French treated Native Americans well.

  3. Proclamation of 1763 • The proclamation kept the colonist from moving west or northwest past the Appalachian Mountains. • The King was trying to protect the colonist by keeping the colonist from the Native Americans. • It made lots of colonist mad because they were excited to move west then the king just gives it back to the Natives.

  4. The Quartering Act • This law was past when the French and Indian war ended to also protect them just in case the French or Indians came and attack the colonist.

  5. The Stamp Act • This act made colonist pay tax on all paper products. • The tax helped the British pay debt that the British ganged during the French and Indian war. • The stamp act was repealed March 1765. • The colonist said that this law was taxation without representation.

  6. The Boston Massacre • the Boston Massacre happened on March 5, 1770. • 3 died 8 injured 2 died later on. • A mob of people were throwing snow, stones, and stick at a soldiers. Then the soldier called more soldiers in. The captain said don’t fire and one of them thought he said fire so he fired.

  7. The Boston Tea Party • This was on December 16, 1773 • A group of men dressed up as Mohawk “Indians” Native Americans • They boarded the ships and slip the boxes and pored 90,000 pounds of tea into the harbor.

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