Indiana's State Motto: The Crossroads of America - adopted in 1937
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Indiana Now Claimed by the British
In 1763 the French signed a treaty signing over all of Canada and all of the land east of the Mississippi River to the British. Indiana was now under British rule and not French rule.
Spain had helped the British in the war. France also signed over all of the land west of the Mississippi River to Spain.
The Indian Chief Pontiac was not happy about this; it was as if the Indians didn't exist or have any power. Pontiac felt disrespected and formed war parties to attack the now British occupied forts in Fort Wayne and Lafayette. He and his men attacked Fort Miami and Fort Ouiatenon and forced them to surrender. He sent out other war parties and was successful in other battles too, but he wasn't able to run the British off like he wanted.
Because of this the British drafted the Proclamation of 1763. It prevented new settlers from moving west into the Indiana Territory. This angered the settlers, but Pontiac was satisfied with how the British handled the situation and stopped the revolt.
In 1765 the British decided to tax the settlers to pay for what the British soldiers needed in the New World. They enacted the Stamp Tax of 1765 which they withdrew in 1766 due to it angering the settlers. The settlers had never paid a tax before and didn't want to start now.
==# 1767 - Joseph Priestly invents carbonated water
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre occurred on March 5, 1770 when a crowd shouted and threw snowballs at a British soldier outside the Custom House where England collected its taxes. When other soldiers showed up to help, one soldier, in his excitement, fired his gun. Other soldiers then fired their guns at the crowd. When silence returned, some Americans were killed and injured. This was the first battle between the British and the new Americans and is known as "The shot heard around the world".
The British knew things were not going well and withdrew all of the taxes, except one. The British decided to keep a 3 penny tax on tea. For 3 years people paid the tax even though they didn't like it.
In December of 1773 at what is known as the Boston Tea Party, several men dressed in Indian clothes dumped all of the tea from the ships into Boston Harbor.
The British were now determined to punish the colonist. They took away Massachusetts's self government, closed the Boston Harbor, and made them accommodate British soldiers in their homes.
There was open talk of a revolution amongst the colonist; none of the colonies were happy about what England was doing to Massachusetts. They knew that they would eventually be next.
The First Continental Congress met in Philadelphia, gun powder and muskets were then gathered and Companies of Americans began to drill in the villages, preparing for a revolution.
==# 1774 - George Louis Lesage patents the electric telegraph
==# 1775 - Alexander Cummings invents the first flush toilet
By 1775, settlers were moving into Kentucky and the British didn't like that either. The British gave the Indians guns to destroy the settlements; they did anything they could to help the Indians in their war against the settlers.
Kentucky was given the name "Dark and Bloody Ground" due to all of the bloody Indian battles there. The Indians in Indiana north of the Ohio River began to attack the new settlements too. They could see what was going on in Kentucky and they knew who would be next to have their land taken.
A Virginian named George Rogers Clark wanted to see Kentucky become a county of Virginia, many of the Kentucky settlers were from there. He went to Virginia and explained how the Indians at Kaskaskia and Vincennes were being supplied guns by the British. Virginia was paying for the revolution as it was; they weren’t convinced by Clark and gave him no money.
Clark sent scouting parties to each of the forts and found that they were hardly manned by the British. He returned to Virginia and told them the situation. This time Virginia gave him enough money to carry out the attack.
Clark got about 170 men together and trained them on an island in the Ohio River near Jeffersonville Indiana.
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This information is the research of many people across the United States and may contain errors. It is presented as the best information to date. Like all of those whose work I have incorporated herein, my research is a work in progress and subject to change without notice. A special thanks to Marlene Ricci of CA, Dwayne Meyer of CA, Jacqueline Bean of TX, Debbie Dick of IN, Milus Miller of IL, Carol Hendricks Miller of IN, Clarence Miller of IN, and Harold Glen Miller of IN. There are numerous others too; many of which are unknown, but their findings and stories are still much appreciated. Much of this would not have been possible with out their information. Also this website includes historical facts gathered from Washington County History, Indiana History, Rowan County and Salisbury North Carolina Historical sources and other US Historical sources.
James A. Miller- Great -Great -Great -Great Grandson of Adam Miller and Hannah Sheets.
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