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**Outline the events that led directly to the Declaration of Independence by the colonies** **__French and Indian War__: The reason the French and Indian war happend was the British colonist want to take the French land in North America, because they wanted to trade fur in that part of the land. The French and Indian War was fought by the British and the French, and then later the Native Americans joined the French side because they were afraid the British where going to take over their land so they wanted to fight back. They fought from 1754-1763. At the end of the war the British got most of the land in North America, and they started to tax the colonist to pay for the war.** This is where i got the info on [|The French and Indian War] Proclamation of 1763__: The Proclamation of 1763 really dampen the celebration of the colonists, because they thought that they were going to be able to build from what they had and make the United States bigger. The Proclamation cut off the frontier to colonial expansion. The king did this so the Indians wouldn't have to be afraid of the colonists coming from the east and driving them towards the west and take their land. The colonists thought it was to keep them by the east coast so they would be easier to control. Both of these reasons are somewhat correct. The colonist couldn't help to feel angry towards the British for taking away their celebration and their freedom. The Proclamation said that all the land west of the rivers which flowed into the Alantic Ocean were off limits to the colonists, this included the Ohio Valley that was a great peice of land. So the colonists were mad at the British and decided to do stuff about that.** This is where i got the info on [|The Proclamation of 1763]
 * __[|Common Sense]Test Question #1__**
 * __[[image:1763map.gif width="158" height="243" align="right" caption="The Proclamation of 1763" link="http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/proc63.htm"]]

This is where i got the info on [|Sugar Act]
 * __Sugar Act__: The sugar act meant that you have to pay a 3-cent tax on foriegn sugar, and they incressed the taxes on coffee and indigo and some kinds of wine. It also banned importation of rum and French wines. this act didn't effect everyone but the ones that did they made it clear that they didn't like it. Also the taxes were raised without any comments from the colonists, so the king went behind their back and raised the taxes.**

this is where i got the info on the [|Stamp Act]
 * __Stamp Act__: Parlament passed the Stamp Act in March 1765. The act required people to use stammped paper for legal documents and newspapers and so on. The resson the stamp was on there was for people to know that it had beed taxed. The money that they got was to go to the solders who were proteting the American colonies. People who didn't pay this tax were tried in the vice admiratly courts. The British solders were trying to convice the colonists that the stamp act was resonable.**

this is where i got my info on [|sons of liberty]
 * __Sons of Liberty__: The Sons of Liberty is a group of low life men such as shopkeepers and people who didn't have a big effect on what happen to the U.S that rebelled agaist the stamp act and the British. Some of the things that they did were on August 14, 1765 they put a dummy of Andrew Oliver (who was to be commissioned Distributor of Stamps for Massachusetts) was found hanging in a tree. This whole thing was to make an evil connetion between Andrew Oliver and the Stamp Act. The sherrifs were told to go clean up the scene but they were frighted for their lives, because there was a group of people were at the scene and they didn't want to get in the middle of that. Before that night a group of mobsters went to Andrew Oliver's proberty and burned his proberty, and then they cut off the head of the dummy of Andrew Oliver, and threw stones at his house while him and his family were inside watching in horror. Then the mob went to Fort Hill which was close by and burred the rest of the dummy. The Sons Of Liberty were the guys that didn't like the Stamp Act and did stuff to the British solders and messed with the government.**

This is where i got the info on [|The Boston Tea Party]
 * __Boston Tea Party__: The king of the British George the thrid lost alot of money during the French and Indian war. So he looked for reasons to tax American Colonies. He also wanted to get controll over the colonial governments that became very independent during the war. The thing that brought the American colonies over the edge was when the British taxed the tea! In May of 1773 the british came up with an engenius plan. [[image:teaparty6.jpg width="251" height="172" align="right"]]The British cut back on the taxes on the tea, this made the colonist alittle more happier. The British assumed that the colonist loved their tea so if they lowered the tax then the colonist would pay. But the colonist were smart enough to know what was going on so the Britishes plan backfired. When East India sent their tea to America the ships weren't allowed to land. In Boston 3 ships showed up on the docks and this made the colonists mad. This became a big promblem on December 16, 1773 when a bunch of mad colonists hung around the dock where the ships docked. A meeting was held and they said let the ships go but don't pay them any money. A group of people were sent to Customs house to release the ships out of the habor. But they said that they can't send them away without any money for their duty. The messengers went back to the meeting and when they told them what happend they were furius. By now it was late evening and a group of about 200 men, some disgussed themselves as indians, so they wouldn't be noticed** **assembled on a nerby hill. They headed off to the docks cheering war chants, and when they got there they went to the 3 ships and throw the cargo of tea into the water of the harbor. Most of the colonist cheered when they found out what had happend but in Londen they were mad. So they made up the Intolerable Acts as a punisment for what had happend in Bosten, Massauchuttes.**


 * __Intolerable Acts__: The Intolerable Acts were acts that were ment to punish Massacuittess and the colonists for the Bosten Tea Party and all that they have done to the British. The Intolerable acts are:**

This is where i got my info on [|The Intolerable Acts]
 * 1) **__Boston Port Act:__ was the first one of the Intolerable Acts. The Act closed the port of Boston, until the East India Compony got paid for that lost tea that the colonist threw in the harber. For the people of Boston, they were very upset because some of the colonists jobs were about trading and with no port they couldn't do their job. Also people's livlyhood depended on trade because they had to get stuff from other places to help them live.**
 * 2) **__Massachuettes Government Act__: This act said that Massachuettes self government was to be taken away from the people of Massachuettes. This was to make Boston really mad and punish them so they wouldn't ressist anymore. All the openings in the Massachuett[[image:getimage.gif align="right" link="http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Intolerable_Acts.aspx"]]es government were to be selected by the governer or by the King himselve. Massachuettes couldn't have town meetings as much as they would like, and they were very upset that this took away some of their rights. Because Massachuettes was a very indepentdent country so this really made them mad.**
 * 3) **__Administration of Justice Act__:** **This act said that if a British officer got commitied for doing a crime that they can be send to England for a trail. This was meant to be sneaky, because then the witnesses had to travel all the way to England and some couldn't afford it. So most of the British solders who were sent to England for trial got away from punisment and justice.**
 * 4) **__The Quartering Act:__ This act allowed British solders to make the colonists give up their house if needed for them to stay in it. Also if they needed a building they could use it for any reason they wanted. This made the colonists mad because they didn't want to let the British solders stay but sometimes they didn't even have a choice.**
 * 5) **__The Quebec Act__: This act extended the boundries from Quebec. But Quebec was a unrepreseted government so most of the colonists thought that British making a point that they are still in charge and that they are the big dogs, and that they were still punishing them for the stuff at Boston.**
 * So the colonists were very upset about all these acts. British leaders were just punishing them for trying to be thier own country but the British don't want that to happen so they have to make these acts to make sure the colonists know where they stand towards them, that they will never be thier own country, and that they will always need their help with stuff. But the some of the colonists won't have that anymore and are starting to make a stand like what happend in Boston with the Boston Tea Party. The colonists are tired of being ruled by the British.[[image:adams_s.jpg width="244" height="298" align="right" caption="Committees of Correspondence" link="http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/signers/adams_s.htm"]]**

This is where i got my info on [|The Committees of Correspondence]
 * __Committees of Correspondence__: Are a special group of people like the Son's of Liberty, but they don't go to such extreams as the Son's of Liberty did. The committees were established when a specific promblem came up, then the committees stoped when resolution was acheved. The frist real commettee of correspondence was formed in Boston in 1764, and they got alot of people to prottest on the Curency Act that was just recently enacted. Then after a year or New York took things into it's own hands on the Stamp Act Crisis by calling all of their neighbors to join a group to not pay thier taxes. Massauchuttes helped out by urging other colonies to send their delegets to the Stamp Act Congress that fall. In 1772 Samuel Adams ugered that a committee should be established to protest the newly desision to have the crown, so the coloniest didn't have to pay the royal governers and the judges. So Adams gathered up his fellow correspondents and they went and gathered all of their neighbors, to fight agaist this new thing. In the next few months over 100 other committees were formed in the towns of Massauchuttes. In 1773 a committee of correspondence of the House Of Burgess worte letters to other committees that said that a perment committee should be formed. Perhaps the best contribition by the committees of correspondence was that they did all the planing in the First Contiental Congress which convened in 1774. Then the Second Continental Congress grabed this idea and made a committee of Corresopondence themshelves to convey the American's idea of foreign power.**

This is where i got my info on [|Lexington and Concord]
 * __Lexington and Concord__: Dr. Joesph Ward learned of the British plans to and sent Paul Rever to warned Samule Adams and John Handcock, because the British wanted to capture them. He promised them he will warn them when the British started to march, but no one knew wh[[image:lexingtonconcord.jpg width="250" height="209" align="right" caption="Lexington and Concord"]]en or where they were going to march. So Paul Rever put lanterens in the North Temple Church and if the British came marching on land he would light one lantern and if they were coming by the sea he would light 2 lanterns. On April 18th the British started their march on the Boston Harbor towards Lexington. So Paul Rever hung 2 lanterns in the stepel and then him and William Dawes, and Dr. Samuel Perscott rode around to warn the colonists that the British were coming. Paul Rever went to tell Samuel Adams and John Hancok before the British came and when they came they were gone. The colonists were ready to fight the British, they formed a milita called the Minute Men, the reason they were called the Minute Men is because they had to get ready for fighting in a couple of Minutes. The British arrived at Lexington and the Captian of the Minute men Jonas Parker and the rest of the Minute men were there to meet them. The Minute men were greatly outnumbered, and when the British fired 8 of the Minute men were killed. Even though Paul Rever was captured before he could finish warning Concord, other men went in his place and warned Concord, so the women and men got all the amunition and sulpules hidden so when the British came they only destroyed a little of the stuff.**

The first couple of weeks they hardly got any thing done they were too busy discussing and arugreing. The colonies had to really try hard to trust one another because they are used to working on their own not with a group. The first plan that they discused was to have a union with Great Britian and the colonies, it was offered by Joesph Calloway of Pensevania. This plan looked very attrative to most of the members of the congress, because this plan would mean equal parts to the colonists and the palament. This plan bearly didn't go though it was just alittle bit of margin. On October 14th the congress desided to meet up the following year, only if the colonists promblems were not attended to by England.** Here are the delegates that formed the First Continental Congress this is where i got the info on [|The First Continental Congress] this is where i got my info on [|The Second Contential Congress]
 * __First Continental Congress__: The First Contienetal Congress had their meetings in Carpenter Hall which is in Philidophia from September 5th to October 27,1774. Gorgia was the only one that sent delegates to Carpenters Hall all the other states had delegates there. These delegates were selected by the people or leglasters or even by the committees of corresspondence. One of the reasons why they had this Continental Congress was to create a united front to Great Britten, and to show them who is boss. but the coloney's weren't on the same page and they couldn't get anything done.[[image:carphallx.gif align="right" link="http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/congress.htm"]] Vergina was really prepared with all the top people who you could have as delegates, they are George Washington, Richard Henry Lee, Patrick Henry, Edmund Pendleton, Colo. Benjamin Harrison, Richard Bland, and at the head of them Peyton Randolph, who became the head of the whole Congress. The objectives were not very clear when the got there, but because they had a good leader they said that they need to talk to the king of Parlament and tell him what is going on in the colonies and how they have such a hard time. They also wanted to tell all the people of America and the wrold.
 * New Hampshire: || John Sullivan, Nathaniel Folsam ||
 * Massachusetts Bay: || John Adams, Samuel Adams, Thomas Cushing, Robert Treat Paine ||
 * Rhode Island: || Stephen Hopkins, Samuel Ward ||
 * Connecticut: || Eliphalet Dyer, Roger Sherman, Silas Deane ||
 * New York: || Isaac Low, John Alsop, John Jay, James Duane, William Floyd, Henry Wisener, S. Bocrum ||
 * New Jersey: || James Kinsey, William Livingston, Stephen Crane, Richard Smith ||
 * Pennsylvania: || Joseph Gallaway, John Dickinson, Charles Humphreys, Thomas Miffin, Edward Biddle, John Morton, George Ross ||
 * Delaware: || Caesar Rodney, Thomas Keane, George Readv ||
 * Maryland: || Matthew Tilghman, Thomas Johnson, William Paca, Samuel Chase ||
 * Virginia: || Peyton Randolph, Richard Henry Lee, George Washington, Patrick Henry, Richard Bland, Benjamin Harrison, Edmund Pendleton ||
 * North Carolina: || William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, R. Caswell ||
 * South Carolina: || Henry Middleton, Thomas Lynch, Christopher Gadsden, John Rutledge, Edward Rutledge ||
 * __Second Continental Congress__: The head guy of The Second Continental Congress was John Hancock. Most of the same delagates were still there but now there was some other notables such as Tomas Jefferson and Benjamen Franklin. But Joseph Calloway was not there. Every colonie had a delegate there even though Gorgia's was late and wasn't there till the fall. Congress started to agree on stuff and they helped out on Military stuff, Statements of Position, Finacing the War, Independance, Opening of Diplomatic Channels, Legeslation. All of this stuff really helped out the colonists to be free and to be safe.**

this is where i got my info on
 * __Common Sense__: This is a phamplet that was written by Thomas Paine in 1776, this phamplet really made the British [[image:paine.jpg align="right" caption="Thomas Paine" link="http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/milestones/commonsense/"]]mad because it was meant to challenge the authority and make them mad. This phamplet spoke for most of the people of the colonies and was the only document that told Britian that they want to have their own independance. Paine's writting brought the revolutionary sentiment into really big focus, because he said that all the prombles that were on the colonists were King Gorge III fault. Thomas Paine didn't even relise the big situation he made with writting his little phamplet. But he did a good thing.**