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Treaty of Paris (1763)
A peace agreement that ended the French and Indian War. It made Britain pass acts that started tentions that eventualy led to the Revolutionary war. -
Stamp Act
A law passed that taxed paper. This enraged the colonist, and was one of the first events before the Revolutionary War. -
Townshend Acts
A law that placed taxes and duties on the goods the colonists imported. -
Boston Massacre
When a mob of Americans was fired upon by the British. It was one of the last straws for the colonists. -
Tea Act
A law that alowed the East India Trading Co. sell it's surpluss tea at cheep prices to undermine the colonial merchants. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea party was one of the series of events that led to the war. Men dressed up as Indians and dumped a lot of tea overboard -
Intolerable Acts
It was affter the Boston Tea Party, when Britain wanted to punish the colonists for dumping the tea. The colonists were very angry at the acts. -
First Continental Congress
A meeting of the colonies to discus and debate the crisis in Boston. They recommended that the colonists boycott the British goods and be prepared to fight. -
Edenton Tea Party
A group of women from NC decided to follow in their husbands footsteps and protest British goods. -
Paul Revere
One of the three men who made the ride to warn the colonist that the regulars are coming. -
The Battle of Lexington & Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the official start of the Revolutionary war. In Lexington, 70 minute men met a much larger troop of British. A shot was fired, and the war began. In Concord, the colonists drove the troop back. -
Gen. Thomas Gage
General of the British at the battle of Lexington and Concord. -
Siege of Boston
In the opening phases of the war, the colonists traped the British and surronded them. It was actualy a siris of battles where the soon to be America was winning. -
Second Continental Congress
The meeting of the same 56 delegates to discus the fighting at Lexington and Concord. They formed the Continental Army and apointed George Washington as the General. -
Mecklenburg Resolves
A document that stated that British laws were no longer imforced in North Carolina. -
Continental Army
A unified army for the colonies to fight Great Britain, with George Washington appointed as its commander. -
The Battle of Bunker Hill
The battle of bunker hill showed that the colonist could hold their own against the best army in the world. -
George Washington
George Washington was a war hero when coming out of the French and Indian war. He was made into the General of the Continetal Army and the first president of the United States of America. -
Olive Branch Petition
Some colonists wanted to keep the peace with Britain, So the Second Continetal Congress sent a peace treaty to the King. It was rejected. -
Halifax Resolves
The halifax resolve was the declaration of independence from British goods, and a push for independence for North Carolina -
Declaration of Independence
A statement made by the Second Continental Congress that declared the Americas free and independent of Britain. -
Battle of Trenton
The Hessian army was crushed in Washington's raid across the Delaware River and the Americans were invigorated by the easy defeat of the British Hessian forces. -
Battle of Ticonderoga
British, Hessians and Brunswickers against the American Colonists, where the Americans withdrew precipitately from Ticonderoga leaving it in British hands. -
Battle of Charleston
Americas worst defeat in the revolution, the Battle of Charlston caused the unconditional surrender of Major General Benjamin Lincoln to British Lieutenant General Sir Henry Clinton and his army of 10,000. -
Battle of Kings Mountain
The loyalist Americans fought against patriot American Revolutionaries. The Revolutionarys demolished the loyalists. -
Battle of Cowpens
The battle had a devastating effect on British morale, whilst increasing American confidence. The Battle of Cowpens, together with the King's Mountain, caused Lord Cornwallis to pull troops from South Carolina and move them farther north, leading to Yorktown and eventually the end of the Revolutionary war. -
Battle of Yorktown
British General Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington as French and American forces trapped the British at Yorktown. This ended the American Revolutionary War. -
Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation
A Statement that was issued by the royal govener in Virginia that any slave that fought for the British. -
Treaty of Paris (1783)
The peace agreement that ended the Revolutionary War and made Britain reconize the colonies as the United States of America.