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American Revolution
The Stamp Act required that all colonists buy special tax stamps for all kinds of products and activities. The stamps had to be placed on newspapers, wills, licenses, insurance policies, land titles, contracts, and other documents. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act required that all colonists buy special tax stamps for all kinds of products and activities. The stamps had to be placed on newspapers, wills, licenses, insurance policies, land titles, contracts, and other documents. -
Bosto Massacre
In Boston, an angry crowd of workers and sailors surrounded a small group of soldiers. They shouted at the soldiers and threw snowbalss and rocks at them. The fightened soldiers fired into the crowd, killing five and wounding six. The first to fall for the cause of American Independence was Cripus Attucks, an African American sailor. -
Battle of Alamance
The Battle of Alamance ended the so-called War of the Regulation, a rebellion in colonial North Carolina over issues of taxation and local control. -
Boston Tea Party
A large group of of men disguised as Native Americans boarded the tea ship. During the next three hours,they threw 342 cases of tea into the harbor. As the crowd cheered and shouted, the raiders destroyed 90,000 pounds of tea worth thousans of dollars. -
First Continential Congress
The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen North American colonies that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution.The Congress met briefly to consider options, including an economic boycott of British trade; publishing a list of rights and grievances; and petitioning King George for redress of those grievances. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
The Americans surrounding Boston were farmers and workers, not trained soldiers. Nobody knew if they woukd stand and fight against tough British troops. THe Americans waited until the BRitish were only about 150 feet away. When they opened fire, hundreds of British soldiers fell dead abnd wounded. -
Declration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence uses step-by-step loguc to explain why the colonists wanted to break away from the Britis -
Battle of Yorktown
In August 1781, General George Washington learned that Major General Lord Charles Cornwallis' army was encamped near Yorktown, VA. After discussing options with his French ally, Lieutenant General Jean-Baptiste Ponton de Rochambeau, Washington decided to quietly move his army away from New York City with the goal of crushing Cornwallis' isolated force.
