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Proclamation of 1763
was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War (wikipedia) -
Suger Act
This came into place because the british placed taxes on suger wines and they wanted the money to provide more sequrity for the colonies. -
Stamp act
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Quartering act
Parliament enacted them to order local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations. It also required citizens to provide food for any British soldiers in the area. Each of the Quartering Acts was an amendment to the Mutiny Act and required annual renewal by Parliament.[1] They were originally intended as a response to issues that arose during the French and Indian War. (wikipedia) -
Boston Massacre
which British Army soldiers killed five civilian men and injured six others (wikipedia) -
Tea Act
an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. Its principal overt objective was to reduce the massive surplus of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive. (wikipedia) -
Boston Tea Party
American boycott of tea carrying a tax the Americans had not authorized. They boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into Boston Harbor, . (wikipedia) -
1st Continental Congress
was a convention of delegates from twelve colonies (Georgia was not present) that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (wikipedia) -
intolerable acts
was the Patriot name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Massachusetts after the Boston Tea party. The acts stripped Massachusetts of self-government and historic rights, triggering outrage and resistance in the Thirteen Colonies. They were key developments in the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775.(wikipedia) -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements (Wikipedia) -
Second Continental Congress
was a convention of delegates from the 13 colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. It succeeded the First Continental Congress, which met between September 5, 1774 and October 25, 1774, also in Philadelphia The second Congress managed the colonial war effor(wikipeia) -
Battle of Bunker Hill
in the battle and was the original objective of both colonial and British troops, and is occasionally referred to as the "Battle of Breed's Hill." (Wikipeidia) -
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain in the summer of 1776. ( Wikipedia) -
Declaration of Independence
United States of America. John Adams was a leader in pushing for independence, which was unanimously approved on July 2. A committee had already drafted the formal declaration, to be ready when Congress voted on independence.
Adams persuaded the committee to select Thomas Jefferson to compose the original draft of the document, (wikipedia) -
Battle of Brooklyn
was a major victory for the British and defeat for the Americans under General George Washington. It was the start of a successful British campaign that gave the British control of the strategically important city of New York. (wikipedia) -
Battle of Trenton
The Continental Army had previously suffered several defeats in New York and had been forced to retreat through New Jersey to Pennsylvania. Morale in the army was low; to end the year on a positive note, George Washington—Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army—devised a plan to cross the Delaware River on the night of December 25–26 and surround the Hessian garrison.(wikipedia) -
American Crisis by Thomas Paine
The pamphlets were contemporaneous with early parts of the American Revolution, during a time when colonists needed inspiring works. They were written in a language that the common man could understand (wikipedia) -
The Battel of Saratoga
conclusively decided the fate of British General John Burgoyne's army in the American War of Independence and are generally regarded as a turning point in the war. Two battles were fought eighteen days apart on the same ground, 9 miles (14 km) south of Saratoga, New York. (wikipedia) -
Winter at Valley Forge
The first three months that the troops spent at Valley Forge were most definitely the hardest. The troops did not have proper clothing. Many soldiers went without boots and some did not even have other articles of warm clothing. For the first couple of months the troops were there, they began to make log cabins out of wood. It was very hard to put 11,000 men into a wood lot south of Philadelphia.(http://library.thinkquest.org/TQ0312848/valleyforge.htm) -
Battle of Yorktown
last major land battle in North America of the American Revolutionary War, also known as the American War of Independence (wikipedia) -
Treaty of Paris
signed on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain. (wikipedia) -
Treaty of Paris (Revolutionary War)
signed on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain on one side and the United States of America and its allies on the other. ( wikipedia)
