The Events that led up to the Declaration of Independence
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- The French and Indian War was in the years 1756-1763. This was the year when England and France had fought over land. Most of them died but England had won. England gained Canada because France no longer controlled it, but the cost of this war was high so they had to turn to the colonists to pay their debt.
- French
- English
- Proclamation of 1763I forbid you colonists to settle the west of the Appalachian Mountains. (This is to intend stabilized relations with the native Americans)
- The Colonists were very outraged by the Proclamation of 1763 they either had to pay the land west of the mountains or had received land grants for services that were rendered during the war.
- We the colonist are outraged to pay this amount for land or have grants of services!
- Taxes These were on everything even colonists had to import things for the taxes.
- The taxes were all sorted of the Stamp Act with was a placed tax on all printed material, such as newspapers marriage licenses, playing cards, and over 40 other documents. The Sugar Act was the tax on molasses and sugar imported by colonies. The Townshend Act was taxed on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper, and tea. The Quartering Act was where American colonists had to provide the British soldiers with: food, beer & wine, bedding, utensils, candles & firewood.
- The Boston Massacre was an angry mob of colonists that gathered near a customs house that British soldiers were guarding. Colonists began throwing snowballs at the troops. Troops fired into the crowd. Yet to know 5 dead and 6 wounded.
- The Townshend Act was repealed, but then the Tea Act had implied and the Sons of Liberty were not happy or settled, This allowed the East India Company to become a monopoly, becoming the colonies' only source of tea. This was not taxed to ship the tea to the colonies, but the colonies had to pay a tax to pay England for the teas. Which led to boycotts on tea, this became the Boston Tea Party.
- No more taxes on tea
- The Boston Tea Party was when the colonists went aboard each of the ships Beaver, Dartmouth, & Eleanor, and Dumped the boxes of British tea into the Boston Harbor as a form of protest. They dumped at least more than 92,000 pounds of tea and 18.5 million tea bags.
- Tea
- Dump that Tea out into the water!
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