The British Victory Caused an Enormous British Debt

* The British victory caused an enormous British Debt

* The British government did not want to pay for another war, so it issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763 that limited western settlement.

* The proclamation angered many farmers and land speculators.

* Sugar act- lowered the tax rates on sugar such as raw sugar and molasses imports.

* The Stamp Act Crisis

* To raise more money to pay for the war Parliament passed the Stamp Act in 1765

* Quartering act- made colonists pay more for their own defense and provide housing for British troops.

* The Townshend's Acts

* 1767 British finance minister Charles Townshend introduced a new set of regulations and taxes known as the Townshend's Acts

* One of these acts, the revenue act of 1776, placed new customers duties on glass, lead, paper, paint, and tea, imported into the colonies.

* The revenue act legalized the use of general search warrants called writs of assistance.

* The Sons of Liberty encouraged colonists to support the boycott of British goods.

* On March 5, 1770, British troops fired into a crowd of colonists in Boston.

* A man of African and Native American descent was the first colonist to die in what became known as the Boston Massacre.

* They do repeal the Townshend's acts except Tea.

* Thomas Jefferson thought each colony should create a committee of correspondence with other colonies about British activities.

* England's new prime minister, Lord North helped the British East India Company, which was almost bankrupt

* To assist the company the tea sales, Parliament passed the Tea Act of 1771 which made East India's tea cheaper than smuggled Dutch tea.

* In December 1773, tea ships from the East India Company arrived in Boston Harbor.

* Colonists boarded the ship and dumped the tea into the harbor.

* This became known as the Boston Tea Party.

* The Boston Tea Party led to the British passing four new laws called the Coercive Acts

* Shut down the port of Boston.

* Also known as the Intolerable Acts.

* This further angered the colonists because if they moved west, they would be living in territory with no elected assembly.

* By 1774 they openly rebelled.

* Concord created Minutemen trained and ready to fight the British at a minutes warning.

* The American Revolution was not just a war between Americans and British but a war between loyalists and patriots.

* Loyalists remained loyal to the king.

* Included Merchants and Government Officials.

* Patriots, Thought then British were tyrants.

* On April 18, 1775, British General Gage and his troops set out to seize the militias supply depot at Concord.

* Patriots Paul Revere and William Dawes were sent to Lexington to warn the people that the British were coming.

* After the battles at Lexington and concord, the second Continental Congress met in Philadelphia to address the issue of defense.

* The congress voted to adopt the militia army around Boston and named it the continental army.

* Appointed George Washington as Commander of the Army.

* Wrote the Olive Branch Petition- Document that said we don't want to fight you.

* On July 4th, 1776 Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence.

* The Battle of Bunker Hill resulted in turning back to British advances.

* The colonial militia only retreated due to a lack of ammunition.

* It was a huge boost to American confidence that the untrained colonials could stand up to the feared British army.

* In January 1776, the persuasive pamphlet called common Sense, By Thomas Paine, caused many colonists to call for independence from Britain.

* Guerilla Warfare -troops hid in trees and behind walls and then ambushed British troops.

* Nathan Hale was sent to spy on the British, caught and hanged.

* Howe had failed to destroy the continental army, which camped at Valley