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George Whitefield
- Nice evangelist preacher that traveled
- attracted big crowds which helped colonist fell united
- very good speaker
- said type of christianity didn't matter
Middle passage

Part of African slave trade
Jonathan Edwards

scary evangelist preacher
great awaking

religious movement
Pontiac's rebellion

Indian rebellion where no land changed hands
Proclamation 1763

Limits legal settlement west
treaty of paris 1763
- ends seven years war (French Indian War)
- france is completely out of North America.
stamp act 1765
- direct tax on many paper items
- later repealed
Townshend Act 1767
- Tax on various goods
- Later repealed expect for tea tax
Boston Massacre 1770

only 5 people died
Intolerable acts 1774
- quartering act
- british soldiers tried in England
- Massachusetts charter revoked
- No meetings allowed
Sons of Liberty

Samuel Adams was a leader
Boston Tea Party

tossed tea into boston harbor
First continental Congress seto 1774
- tired to resolve problem
- established boycotts
- ask for repealment of intolerable acts
Paul Revere

was caught in Lexington
second continental congress 1775
- declared independence
- established army
- sent an olive branch petition and asked for cease fire
Thomas Paine

sold 600,000 copies of common sense
declaration of independence
- 1776
- thomas jefferson main author