1. Chapter 6 – 8 Review

2. French and Indian War 1754: Albany Plan of Union
1754 – 1763: 7 Years War
1763: 4 HUGE EVENTS!
End of French and Indian War
End of Salutary Neglect
Pontiac’s Rebellion
Proclamation Line of 1763

3. 1760s Britain is in DEBT! Answer? Sugar Act: 1764 Stamp Act: 1765
Tax the colonists
Sugar Act: 1764
Purpose to raise revenue
Colonists Smuggled
Stamp Act: 1765
Tax on 50 Commonly used goods
Colonists = 

4. 1760s….. Stamp Act Congress: 1765 Declaratory Act: 1776
Congress….. Colonies
First attempt at colonial unity AGAINST British
Declaratory Act: 1776
Britain can pass ALL laws (including taxes) in the future
Townshend Acts: 1767
Tax on imports (tea, glass, etc.)
Also repealed

5. 1770s Boston Massacre: 1770 Tea Act: 1773
5 colonists are killed, no British soldiers
Tea Act: 1773
Bail out British East India Company
Colonists are 
This leads to……..
Boston Tea Party: December 1773
Sons of Liberty
This leads to……

6. 1770s…… Intolerable/Coercive Acts (1774)
Closed port of Boston
Quartering Act
This leads to……
1st Continental Congress (1774)
Colonial unity AGAINST the British
Side Note: Quebec Act: 1774
Extended boundaries of French Canada
Granted Canadians right to practice Catholicism

7. 1770s…… Lexington and Concord: April 1775
“Shot heard round the world”
Start of the Revolutionary War
Second Continental Congress: May 1775
Managed War Effort, eventually moved towards independence
De Facto Government
Olive Branch Petition: July 1775
Attempt to avoid full-blown war with Britain

8. 1770s…….. Common Sense: January 1776 Declaration of Independence: 1776
Thomas Paine (T-Paine) Yeah!
Urged Colonists to break away from England
Declaration of Independence: 1776
Formally broke away
Influences: Enlightenment – John Locke

9. Revolutionary War Battle of Saratoga: 1777 Battle of Yorktown: 1781
Significance: France enters war on behalf of the colonists
Turning point in the war!
Battle of Yorktown: 1781
Last major battle
Peace of Paris: 1783