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Boston Massacre
Location: Boston Massachusetts
Important person: Samuel Adams
Groups of people: British army, patriots
Winner: patriots
Significant: It exploded the colonists through Samuel Adams’ propaganda, turning the colonists against the Britain, and finally lead to the Revolution. -
Turning Point
The Boston Massacre is the turning point, because it led to the outburst of people’s dissatisfaction to the Britain. After the Massacre, many propagandas had come out, many of which exaggerated the fact, and the news reached every colony. From them on, people started to have the intention of revolution, many of them even started to prepare arms. It finally led to the American Revolution 5 years later. -
Boston Tea Party
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Important person: sons of liberty
Groups: Sons of Liberty, the East India company
Winner: sons of liberty
Significant: It’s a symbol of American’s protest to tax. The British government’s harsh response led to the American Revolution. -
1 st Continental Congress
Location: Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Important person: Patrick Henry
Groups: Colonial leaders from all the colonies except Georgia
Winner: ??
Significant: They encouraged colonists to continue boycotting British goods, but told colonial militias to prepare for war. They also drafted the Declaration of Rights, which includes “life, liberty, and property”, to send to King George III. At last, they appointed the next meeting. -
The Second Continental Congress
location:Philadelphia
Important person: John Hancock, George Washington
Group: Delegates from 12 colonies
Winner: XX
Significant: It represented the first attempt at a Republican government in the colonies. The delegates sent word to colonial authorities asking for new state constitutions, and authorized the Massachusetts militia to become the Continental Army, then named George Washington to command the army. -
Lexington & Concord
Location: Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge
Important person: Captain John Parker, rider Samuel Prescott
Groups: Minutemen and British soldiers
Winner: The colonists
Significant: It’s viewed as the starting point of the American Revolution. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
Location: Launched from Breed’s Hill
Important person: XX
Groups: Redcoats, colonial forces
Winner: British (with mortality double the number of patriot soldiers)
Significant: The patriots proved they could take on the Redcoats. -
Battle of Trenton
Location: Trenton, New Jersey
Important person: George Washington
Groups: The Continental Army and the Hessian force
Winner: America
Significant: The battle significantly boosted the Continental Army's flagging morale, and inspired re-enlistments. -
Battle of Saratoga
Location: Saratoga
Important person: British General John Burgoyne
Groups: Burgoyne’s army and Patriots
Winner: The colonists
Significant: It’s the turning point of the Revolutionary war. It was the greatest victory yet for the American forces. -
Threaty of Alliance
Location: the hôtel de Coislin in Paris
Important people: Benjamin Franklin, King Louis XVI
Groups: Delegates of France and the Second Continental Congress
Winner: XX
Significant: After signing the treaty, the French helped the Patriots all along with supplies, ammunition, soldiers and ships, which became a key ingredient in defeating the British. -
Battle of Guildford Courthouse
Location: North Carolina
Important people: Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis(British),Major General Nathanael Greene
Groups: British soldiers and American army
Winner: A strategic victory for the Americans
Significant: The battle was “the largest and most hotly contested action” in the American Revolution’s southern action, and led to the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. -
Battle of Yourkton
Location: Yorktown, Virginia
Important people: George Washington
Groups: Continental Army, French Army, and British Army
Winner: America
Significant: The battle prompted the British government to negotiate an end to the conflict, boosted faltering American morale and revived French enthusiasm for the war, as well as undermining popular support for the conflict in Great Britain. -
Treaty of Paris
Location: Paris, France
Important person: Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, Henry Laurens, and John Adams from the United States, David Hartley and Richard Oswald from Britain
Groups: Great Britain and United States of America
Winner: the United States
Significant: Great Britain recognized the independence of the United States, and also set America’s borders. British leaders also accept American rights to settle and trade west of the original thirteen colonies.
