The American Revolution

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The American Revolution

• By Nikita and Hilary

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The Molasses Act

• The Molasses Act was in 1764.
• They put taxes on sugar, indigo, coffee, pimento,
  wine, textiles, and Molasses.
• They turned molasses and sugar into rum and when
  there were taxes put on the molasses and sugar
  the price went up on the rum.

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The French And Indian War

• The French and Indian war started in 1754 and
  ended in 1763.
• It was called the 7 year war.
• The British and Indians were on one side Colonist
  and the French were on the other side.
• It ended with the colonists winning.

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The Proclamation of 1763

• All the colonist were forbidden to go south of
  the Appalachian Mountains. The people who
  already had, had to move back.
• King George kept an eye on all the colonist to
  make sure they did not pass the mountains.
• All the new laws made the colonist angry.

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The Stamp Act

• King George wanted to effect everyones life.
• You had to have stamps on 54 kinds of paper such
  as newspapers, Almanacs, playing cards, dice,
  wills and license.
• Some colonist would steel these items because
  they didnt want to pay the stamp taxes.

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Townshend Act

• The Townshend Act was in1767.
• This act put taxes on tea, glass, paper, and
  paint.
• Many colonist did not want to pay the taxes.

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The Sons of Liberty

• The sons of liberty was a club of many colonist.
  Their motto was join our die.
• People that were in the club would break into the
  tax collectors houses and beat them.
• After that they would take
• the tax stamps and burn them.

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Boston Massacre

• The Boston Massacre was a war between the
  colonist and the British.
• It started out as a snowball fight and ended as a
  war.
• 5 colonist were killed 6 were wounded.

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The Boston Tea Party

• 50 men from the sons of liberty got on a boat
  dressed as Mohawk Indians and threw over 342 tea
  bags in the water.
• All that tea was worth 75,000 dollars.
• One of the 50 men was Paul Revere.
• This did not make King George III very happy.

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The First Continental Congress(Intolerable Act)

• The Intolerable Act closed the Harbor tell all
  the tea was paid for from the Boston Tea Party.
• They also said they could not hold town meetings,
  they forced you to have a soldier live in your
  house and you could not commit a crime.
• This lead to many problems.

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Minute Men

• The reason the men were called Minute Men was
  because if there was a problem they could get
  ready in 1 minute and fix the problem.
• Paul Revere was a famous Minute Man.

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The Battle of Concord Lexington

• The first shoot was called The shot heard round
  the world.
• Paul Revere was a famous fighter in the war.
• Many people were killed or wounded.

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The Battle Of Bunker Hill

• Bunker Hill looked over the Boston Harbor.
• The hill was really Breeds Hill but the colonist
  thought it was Bunker Hill.
• It started when the British commander sent
  solders over the hill.

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The 2nd Continental Congress

• In May of 1775 was when the second Continental
  Congress started its place in Philadelphia.
• King George hired solders from Germany called
  Hessians.
• King George paid them 50 dollars a year, 35 if
  they killed someone, and 12 if someone got
  wounded.

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The American Flag

• On June 14,1774 they decided to make a flag with
  13 stars and 13 stripe.
• The 13 stars stood for all 13 colonies.
• Betsey Ross sewed the first American Flag.

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The First Battles

• Most of the early battles were around New York
  City to Pennsylvania.
• On May 10,1775 was the first battle between the
  Americans and British.
• Fort Ticonderoga had forty cannons where the war
  took place.

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Common Sense The Declaration of Independence

• In January of 1776 a man named Thomas Paine wrote
  a book called Common Sense.
• George Washington wrote The Declaration of
  Independence which told the Americans that they
  had a free country now.
• Some Americans still obeyed the Kings rules and
  they were called Tories.

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The Battle Of Saratoga

• In the winter of 1776 George Washington and his
  soldiers camped in Pennsylvania..
• On Christmas Eve they crossed the icy Delaware
  River.
• They were going to fight with the Hessian. That
  same night the Hessians were celebrating the
  holiday and drinking heavy drinks.

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Valley Forge The End of the War

• The British camped in Philadelphia.
• The Americans stayed at Valley Forge which is 30
  miles away from Philadelphia.
• After the end of the war the Americans got their
  own country which is now the United States.