american Revolution

  • 13 british colonies

    13 british colonies

    When the British parliament came to the Americas for the first time
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh79MXVZsds
  • French and Indian war

    French and Indian war

    The French fought the Indians for a long time to try and win over land. It first started when the french would try and poison some of the supplies they would trade and it escalated from that point on. The British also hired hessians to help.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n-gsgqaUo0&t=138s
  • proclamation of 1763

    proclamation of 1763

    When the British made a border line on the Appalachian Mountains,
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKNTBHmWOyA
  • Sugar act

    Sugar act

    When the British added a tax if you wanted sugar or spices. You had to pay a heavy tax to have or consume it. Or to get them shipped to America.
    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qkq5UadoKPc
  • Stamp act

    Stamp act

    They were war taxes for the British since they were short on money. This angered the colonists and started some of the rebelling against the British.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFVAvYw8-4w
  • Quartering act

    Quartering act

    This act was passed so that British troops could go into any house legally and take anything they wanted if they said they needed it more.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQabUfizDjc
  • Townshed act

    Townshed act

    Another war tax for the French and Indian war. The British were so low on money that they made this act to force more money out of the colonists, which made things worse because people were rebelling and refusing to do it.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKGSda3sEVU
  • Boston massacre

    Boston massacre

    Where British soldiers fired and killed five colonizers because the colonists said that they would not give in and were shot because of it. The British were told not to fire but someone did fire and started the whole disaster. Someone who was apart was crisis attucks
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPEbHiGnrag
  • Tea act

    Tea act

    when the British needed more money so they made the tea act so the colonizers had to pay for the shipments of tea
  • Boston Tea party

    Boston Tea party

    The Americans threw tea in the Boston harbor to show that the colonizers were done with the British.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl9unTDt92I
  • Intorlerable acts

    Intorlerable acts

    After the Boston Tea Party, The British put out the intolerable acts to keep from fighting against the British
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEd9XU52Vhw
  • First Continental congress

    First Continental congress

    A group of people being able to act for the people. The first act they did was for people not to follow the intolerable acts.
  • Battle of bunker hill

    Battle of bunker hill

    The british won the battle but lost 40 percent of there men
  • Second Continental congress

    Second Continental congress

    The Second Continental congress was a group of people that went over stuff like who should lead the army.
  • Lexington and concord

    Lexington and concord

    Massachusetts fought against the British and refused to do what they were instructed so they had a battle and wo.
  • olive branch petition

    olive branch petition

    The Olive Branch Petition was a paper sent to the king of Britain to stop formal war from beginning. Though the kind denied.
  • common sense

    common sense

    A 47 page panflet about easy to understand politcs
  • Battle of Trenton

    Battle of Trenton

    The battle of Trenton was after crossing the Delaware River in a treacherous storm, General George Washington's army defeated a garrison of Hessian mercenaries at Trenton.
  • Declaration of Independents

    Declaration of Independents

    A law for colonisers to break from great Britin with the sons of liberty and George Washington and bejamin franklin, and the continitial army, and the committee of corresponders.
  • Battle of New York

    Battle of New York

    The Battle of New York was when the British attacked The troops in New Day Brooklyn. Most troops were kidnapped or killed or driven West.
  • Battle of Saratoga

    Battle of Saratoga

    The colonizers fought the British for a long time to keep the British from advancing forward.Also lead by benidect arnold.
  • Valley Forge

    Valley Forge

    At the Valley Forge battle, General Wilhelm von Knyphausen led British soldiers on a raid of Valley Forge, where American troops had built a handful of storage facilities. Defending the site were Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Hamilton and Captain Henry “Light Horse Harry” Lee.
  • Battle of monmouth

    Battle of monmouth

    The battle was tactically inconclusive and strategically irrelevant; neither side dealt a heavy blow to the other, and the Continental Army remained in the field while the British Army redeployed to New York, just as both would have if the battle had never been fought.
  • Battle of Yorktown

    Battle of Yorktown

    This battle was not easy but in the end George Washington got the British to surrender 8,000 of there troops.
  • Treaty of Paris

    Treaty of Paris

    The Treaty of Paris was signed in 1783 by both Britain and The United States.