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Bleeding Kansas and Civil War
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Tea/Stamp/Sugar act * The colonists protested * King George repeals all taxes except the tea tax * The sugar act was quickly repealed after the anger and violence
Boston Massacre * It started with a small argument with British private Hugh White and a few colonists, but quickly began to escalate as more colonists came and they started to harass private White. * while under attack at a mob British soldiers shot and killed 5 colonists * There was also a total of 6 non-fatal injuries
The Boston Tea Party * It was a political and mercantile protest * The colonists did this due to the remaining tea tax that King George has enforced * around 92,000 pounds of tea was dumped into the harbor
First Continental Congress * Was held from Sep 5. to October 26, and 12 out of the 13 colonies had met * Georgia was the only colony without a delegate present * This meeting was to discuss the acts/taxes that the British were enforcing
Common Sense *Was written by Thomas Paine to advocate independence from Great Britain to the colonists *Nearly 120,000 copies were going around the colonies by April of that year * This is a major event that sparked the writing of the Declaration of Independence
Declaration of Independence was signed * The United States Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House * All men have equal rights and the God-given rights is to be safeguarded that is, the rights of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. Is one of the major points of the document * Thomas Jefferson was the principal author of the document
Periods
The French and Indian War * England wins the war * England in major debt * The war provided Great Britain with a great territorial gain in North America
Colonists where heavily taxed *The tax was raised from 8 pence per head to 20 pence per year *Out of rage and anger the colonists would tar and feather British soldiers and agents *The taxes were put on them due to the expenses of the French and Indian war