-English colonial penetration of the Ohio Valley. The turning point of the Seven Years’ War in America occurred when: -English Prime Minister William Pitt threw his nation’s full military might into the American campaign. The British Proclamation of 1763: -ordered colonial governors to reserve lands west of the Appalachian Mountains for Indian nations. The end of the Seven Years’ War left the American colonies: -debt-ridden and weakened in manpower. Colonists protested the Stamp Act in all of the
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to the acts and rules british forced on the colonies without any consent. The French and Indian war‚ also known as the Seven Years’ war‚ was a major imperial that was between Britain and France. This war had begun in the year of 1754 and ended in 1763 resulting with the Treaty of Paris. During the French and Indian war‚ since the colonists
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over taxes‚ short term causes leading up to 1776 for example the Boston Tea Party and finally the trigger reasons which provoked this declaration‚ such as the need for a unanimous vote and the lack of reply to the Olive Branch Petition. In October 1763 the British government issued a Royal Proclamation‚ temporarily forbidding colonial settlements beyond the crest of the Alleghanies. Though some settlers had already passed this point‚ the British wanted to stabilize their Western Frontier with the
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done to it intended to draw a wicked connection between Oliver and the Stamp Act. This display attracted a mob that burned down Oliver’s property and home‚ displacing his family. Such an act was only a spark to what the Sons were to do later on. In 1773‚ outraged with the new tax on tea‚ the Sons of Liberty decided to take matters into their own hands. Under the cover of darkness and dressed like Native Americans‚ the Sons snuck onto three British ships and dumped 342 crates of tea into the harbor
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7 The Road to Revolution‚ 1763–1775 Chapter Themes Theme: The American Revolution occurred because the American colonists‚ who had long been developing a strong sense of autonomy and self-government‚ furiously resisted British attempts to impose tighter mercantilist imperial controls and higher taxes after the French and Indian War in 1763. The political ideals of “republicanism” and “radical Whiggery” (the latter focused especially on liberty) caused Americans to see British actions in the worst
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territory of the Ohio River Valley‚ and because of the issues arising with Native Americans due to both the French and British starting to move onto their land. Relations between the American colonies and England drastically changed between 1754 to 1763 economically‚ because of the colonists refusal to pay British tax causing them to seek alternative international trading partners and protest against the tax; politically‚ because of the new rules and regulations enforced by England that upset the
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ideas and events that‚ combined‚ led to a political and social separation of colonial possessions from the home nation and a coalescing of those former individual colonies into an independent nation. Summary The American revolutionary era began in 1763‚ after a series of victories by British forces at the conclusion of the French and Indian War (also‚ Seven Years War) ended the French military threat to British North American colonies. Adopting the policy that the colonies should pay a larger proportion
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Chapter 7 The Road to Revolution‚ 1763-1775 I. The Deep Roots of Revolution • In a broad sense‚ the American Revolution began when the first colonists set foot on America. • The war may have lasted for eight years‚ but a sense of independence had already begun to develop because London was over 3‚000 miles away. o Sailing across the Atlantic in a ship often took 6 to 8 weeks. o Survivors felt physically and spiritually separated from Europe. o Colonists in America‚ without influence from
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development of the American identity. After Great Britain’s prevail in the Seven Years War or the French and Indian War‚ Britain went in debt‚ causing them to impose taxes on the colonists as their source of revenue which led to the Proclamation of 1763
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been piled up because of the Seven Year war. The taxes or also known as “acts” had made an outrage among the colonists when they were implemented. Taxes such as the sugar act in1764‚ the Stamp act of 1765‚ Townshend acts of 1767‚ and the tea act of 1773 were imposed on numerous colonies such as Boston which was an important trading depot at the time. The Boston Massacre was used as propaganda in newspapers that was circulated among the colonies. The tea act had led to an uproar among the Bostonians
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