CAUSES OF THE WAR
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GETTING READY FOR WAR
WAR
WAR
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cities grew, traded supplies and food with England and other countries, and made their own decisions
What are 3 ways the colonists did well for many years?
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ENGLAND
Who won the French and Indian War?
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He told them where to live and sent soldiers to America
How did the king try to control the colonists?
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military supplies and 2 leaders
What did the British soldiers want to take in Concord, Massachusetts?
100
Revolutionary War
What was the name given to the fighting between the Americans and the British?
200
food and supplies
What did the colonists trade with the British?
200
Because the French and Indian War cost a lot of money
Why did England owe a lot of money?
200
British fired upon unarmed settlers
What was the Boston Massacre?
200
Paul Revere
Who rode through the towns warning the settlers that the British were coming?
200
France
Who did the colonists win their freedom from at the end of the Revolutionary War?
300
France
Who did England have the first big war with?
300
He decided to put a lot of taxes on the colonists.
How did King George III decide to get back part of the money?
300
Settlers threw crates of tea off a ship to protest tea taxes
What was the Boston Tea Party?
300
trees and walls
What did colonists hide behind so the British could not shoot them?
300
England
Who did the colonists win their freedom from at the end of the Revolutionary War?
400
French and Indian War
What was the first big war England had with France called?
400
King gave them more taxes and wouldn't let them trade with anyone.
What happened when the colonists started to complain?
400
British
Who would the colonists have to fight to get their freedom?
400
Declaration of Independence
What document did the Americans write that declared our independence from England?
400
1781
When did the fighting end?
500
Over land in America
Why was the French and Indian War fought?
500
Everything they traded to England
What did the colonists have to pay taxes on?
500
groups of armed men in each town who would be ready fast to guard their town and fight the British
Who were the Minutemen
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July 4, 1776
When was the Declaration of Independence approved?
500
1783 in France
When and where was a peace treaty written?
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