american revolution

By holliel

  • The Proclamation of 1763

    Procelation This prevented colonists from crossing of the Appalachian Mountains.

  • Sugar Act

    Sugar act The Sugar Act reduced the rate of tax on molasses from six pence to three pence per gallon and it taxed sugar, certain wines, coffee, pimiento, cambric and printed calico, and further, regulated the export of lumber and iron

  • Stamp Act

    Stamp act This put taxes on every piece of paper the colonists bought

  • The Townshend Act

    Townshend Acts The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed, beginning in 1767, by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. The Acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the program.

  • Boston Massacre

    Massacure A street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers

  • Tea Act

    tea act The Tea Act was the final straw in a series of unpopular policies and taxes imposed by Britain on her American colonies. The policy ignited a “powder keg” of opposition and resentment among American colonists and was the catalyst of the Boston Tea Party.

  • Boston Tea Party

    Tea Party All the british tea was taxed. The colonists boycotted the tea and dumped lots of tea in the ocean.

  • The Intolerable Acts

    intorlerable acts Passed to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea party.

  • Edenton Tea Party

    Edenton Tea Party The Edenton Tea Party was one of the earliest organized women's political actions in United States history. On October 25, 1774, Mrs. Penelope Barker organized, at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth King, fifty-one women in Edenton, North Carolina.

  • The First Continental Congress

    The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution.

  • Paul Revere

    Paul Revere He rode to lexington to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock That the British troops were coming to arrest them. He was joined by William Dawes and Dr. Samuel Prescott. They were captured and Dawes and Prescott got away but Paul Revere did not.

  • The Battle of Lexington and Concord

    Battle The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War

  • Mecklenburg Resolves

    Mecklenburg resovles A list of statements adopted at Charlotte, in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina on May 31, 1775

  • Contienental Army

    Army The Continental Army was formed after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War by the colonies that became the United States of America.

  • Bunker Hill

    Bunker hill The Battle of Bunker Hill was a battle fought on June 17, 1775, during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War.

  • Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge

    Bridge The Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge was a battle of the American Revolutionary War fought near Wilmington in present-day Pender County, North Carolina on February 27, 1776

  • Halifax Resolves

    Hr The Halifax Resolves is the name later given to a resolution adopted by the Fourth Provincial Congress of the Province of North Carolina on April 12, 1776. The resolution was a forerunner of the United States Declaration of Independence.

  • Declaration of Independance

    Independance Tohmas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independance declaring freedom from Great Britain.

  • Battle of Ticonderoga

    battle The British left the gate unlocked so the Americans walked in and won.

  • Winter at Valley Forge

    Valley A valley in eastern Pennsylvania that the American Army styed in one winter. The troops suffered from the cold and lack of supplies.

  • Battle of Kings Mountain

    Battle A victory for the patriots in south carolina. A victory for the Patriots in South Carolina.

  • Battle at Guilford Courthouse

    hh The British won but their loss was so great that if they had another thing like this they would die.
    The British won but ther loss was so great that annother victory like that would have wiped them out.

  • Battle of Yorktown

    battle The last battle of the Revolutionary War. George Washington won against the British.

  • Treaty of Paris

    Treaty Samuel Adams, Ben Franklin and John Jay went to Paris France to negotiate the treaty with the french and british. The goal was to have peace between America and Great Britiain.