SSUSH 3

The English fought the French over land located in the Ohio River Valley Region. The English won and as a result, the colonists began to develop a feeling of empowerment and unity among the colonies as a result of the victory. England ended the war with large war debts causing them to be financially unprepared to put down the revolt of the colonists later in 1775.

• Proclamation of 1763

• Treaty of Paris 1763

• The French and Indian War

Peace agreement that brought an end to the French and Indian War, with Britain’s victory. Its final resolutions included removal of the French from North America east of the Mississippi, excluding the city of New Orleans.

• Treaty of Paris 1763

• Daughters of Liberty

• Proclamation Act of 1763

Required the colonists to print newspapers, legal documents, playing cards, and so forth, on paper bearing special stamps; the stamp would be proof that the tax had been paid

• Stamp Act

• Intolerable Acts

• The Boston Tea Party

Known as the ‘punishment laws’, which included five different restrictions placed on the colonists; were designed to make an example of Massachusetts and hopefully stop the growing resistance to British authority throughout the colonies.

• The Intolerable Acts

• The Stamp Act

• The Sugar Act

In Boston, Samuel Adams organized the Sons of Liberty to protest, often violently, the unfair laws and taxes

• Sons of Liberty

• Daughters of Liberty

• Committees of Correspondence

A group similar to Sons of Liberty in that they participated in sharing growing concerns of colonists publicly and also organized their own means of protest. In this case, the women organized a boycott of English goods and began to spin their own yarn to create an American supply of thread.

• Sons of Liberty

• Daughters of Liberty

• Committees of Correspondence

The Massachusetts colonial Assembly created a group to communicate shared matters of concern between all of the 13 colonies, their main point being that England was denying them their legal civil liberties, by not allowing them to participate in the policies created by Parliament.

• Sons of Liberty

• Daughters of Liberty

• Committees of Correspondence

Written by Thomas Paine and it persuaded Americans that no reconciliation with Britain was possible, only war would bring an end to their differences.

• Common Sense

• Intolerable Acts

• The Declaration of Independence