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George Washington Was born on February 22 1732. He is most know for being the first president of the United States. He was also a great military leader in the Revolution and in the French and Indian War.
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The war prior to the revolution. The start of all acts running up to the Revolution. Caused the debt that made all taxes rise, giving the colonist a reason to revolt.
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Alexander Hamilton was a founding father and like a brother to George Washington. Hamilton established the current economy including the currency. He wrote hundreds of essays to the president and the court telling them his ideas on what they should do with the government. Most of his essays were used and influential to the current USA. Hamilton was killed by his former friend, Aaron Burr, in a gun fight.
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The sugar act was a tax that lowered the price of taxes on molasses and sugar. This act also banned the importing of both of these product. Even though it lowered the taxes, it also enforced them more and people strongly disagreed with it.
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The Townshend Act allowed the British soldiers to quarter in any colonists house. It also taxed a whole ton of other things such as lead, glass, paint, etc.
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The colonists provoked the British soldiers to fire in an street and 5 colonists were killed from gunshots of the British. The Americans later engorged the story to give a backbone to the revolution.
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The tea act was a tax placed on the colonists to tax all tea. It also forced tea to be bought from the British East Indian Company.
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A proclamation established after a revolt of the Indians. It stated that the colonists should not settle pasted the Appalachian. The colonists were angry because they wanted to settle the area after the Indian and French war.
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The Boston tea party is an event that happened to stop the tea act. A group of colonists snuck onto a ship and dumped all the tea being imported into the sea as an act of repression and boycotting..
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Also called Coercive Acts, were a group of 5 acts that worsened the cause for the colonists to revolt. There was the Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act, the Quartering Act, and the Quebec Act. The Boston Port Act closed the Boston Port until they paid for the tea they spilled. The Massachusetts Government Act gave more power to the Massachusetts Governor and took from the colonists. The Administration of Justice Act allowed for trials to be move.
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The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States. A plan was proposed to create a Union of Great Britain and the Colonies, but the delegates rejected it
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British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord in order to seize an arms cache. They are greeted by the American army and they were at a standstill. Eventually someone fired a shot and the first battle of the revolution started
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The Second Continental Congress was when the colonists came together to talk about what to do with the redcoats, or the British, and how to remove them from the Americas. They agreed on making their own army named the Continental Army.
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This battle was won by the British. It was one of the early battles of the revolution. Most of the fighting occurred on breeds hill.
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The declaration of independence is a document stating all federal laws and how the country is run. It lays out the Legislative, Judicial, and executive. It is able to be amended if all 3 branches agree on adding or removing a line or amendment.
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This battle started on Christmas Day. On Christmas, George Washington crossed the Delaware river to attack and arise victorious of the Hessian Mercenaries. These Mercenaries were a formidable foe and was a great victory.
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The Articles of Confederation were an agreement with the 13 colonies that was practically the first and original Constitution, before the current Constitution of the United States. Was sent and ratified on November 15, 1777.
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12,000 men and 400 women started a trek to Valley Forge to essentially create the fourth largest city in the United States. The "city" did not last long because it wasn't a true city, but instead a camp for American soldiers.
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Right after the revolution, the war hero, Benedict Arnold turns his back to the USA and talks secretly with a British official. Nobody knows the true reason why he turned his back but most speculate it was for fame, greed, or to keep the colonies under British rule.
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General George Washington, commanding a force of 17,000 French and Continental troops, begins the siege known as the Battle of Yorktown against British General Lord Charles Cornwallis. Earlier, the French fleet commanded by Francois, Count de Grasse, departed St. Domingue (the then-French colony that is now Haiti) for the Chesapeake Bay.
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The Treaty of Paris ended the revolutionary war, and brought peace between Britain and America. It was established at the win of the battle of Yorktown in 1781.
