United the Colonies
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- Second Continental Congress
- prepared for war by forming an army
- Sugar Act of 1764
- to pay for the French and Indian War and the soldiers stationed in the colonies
- Massachusetts colonists' response to Intolerable Acts
- sending a petition to Parliament
- Albany Plan of Union
- its purpose was to unite the colonies against the French
- 1763
- year that French and Indian War ends in Europe and North America
- casue: British forces were defeated while trying to capture Fort Duquesne in 1755
- effect: French soldiers and Native Americans carried out attacks on British settlers
- Battle of Bunker Hill
- fought outside of Boston-the 1st major battle of Revolutionary War
- Ohio Valley
- important to the French because it provided a link between their lands in Louisiana and Canada
- Patrick Henry
- colonial leader that suggested that the colonies should prepare to fight for their independence; he said, "give me liberty or give me death."
- Edward Braddock
- he led the British forces to capture Fort Duquesne in 1755
- 1760
- year that British captured Montreal
- Paul Revere
- worked as silversmith, made an engraving of the Boston Massacre, rode to warn the Minutemen that the British troops were coming
- Crispus Attucks
- considered by many to be the 1st person killed in the colonies' fight for independence
- William Pitt
- he helped Britain win the French and Indian War by focusing on winning in North America
- Georgia
- last colony to join the Second Continental Congress
- 1759
- year when British defeated French forces near Quebec
- 1762
- year that British defeated Spanish forces
- Proclamation of 1763
- British government tried to stop British colonists from moving west. It angered many British colonists becasue they believed it violated their right to travel where they wanted
- Intolerable Act-Boston Port Bill
- closed port of Boston and demanded payment for destoyed tea
- Intolerable Act-Massachusetts Government Act
- prevented legislature from making laws, banned town meetings that weren't approved by the governor, and required colonists to quarter (house) British troops
- goods taxed by Townshend Acts
- lead, paint, glass, paper, tea
- James Otis
- "No taxation without representation"-the colonists should refuse to pay the stamp tax until they had representation in Parliament
- British forts during Pontiac Rebellion
- most of these were destroyed
- Washington
- he and his soldiers built Fort Necessity to defend against a potential French attack
- Boston Tea Party
- Parliament tried to give a monopoly on tea to the East India Company
- Olive Branch Petition
- asked King George III for a peaceful end to conflict in the colonies
- Pontiac Rebellion
- Pontiac wanted to stop settlers from taking over Native American hunting lands
- cause: Washington and the British surrendered at Fort Necessity
- effect: the British government asked colonial leaders to determine the loyalty of the Iroquois
- Stamp Act
- colonists protested this act by 1. making their own thread and cloth and 2. by drinking tea made from local trees and 3. by attacking the homes of tax collectors
- people who took guns and supplies from British forts during Pontiac Rebellion
- Native Americans