American Revolution

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  • French and Indian War

    French and Indian War

    During the 1700s, the French had developed a trading pact with the neighboring Natives of Ohio, this lead to the British wanting in on this trade, and a war over the rights of the land. The British won.
  • The Treaty of Paris

    The Treaty of Paris

    Paris after the war, gave all their territories to the British post defeat
  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763

    The British got stricter with its policies, now the American colonizers could not settle west of the Appalachian Mountains
  • Sugar act

    Sugar act

    British taxes colonies on sugar importing
  • Stamp act

    Stamp act

    British places a tax on all forms of paper
  • Townshed/Quartering Act

    Townshed/Quartering Act

    Quartering was for the housing and feeding of British troops, and the Townshed act was to help enforce the policy
  • Boston Massacare

    Boston Massacare

    A collection of people who were protesting the acts get shot and killed including one British solider
  • Tea act

    Tea act

    British placed tax on all forms of colonial tea
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    A collection of anti British colonist trash thousands of pounds of tea into the Boston harbor in protest
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts

    The name the US colonies gave all the aforementioned acts
  • first continental congress

    first continental congress

    A group of political scholars got together to form the first ever congress of the USA. They told the people to boycott materials from the British
  • battle of bunker hill

    battle of bunker hill

    a battle fought in charlestown british won
  • lexington and concord

    lexington and concord

    the first official battle of the war, the colonist won.
  • Second Continental Congress

    Second Continental Congress

    Representatives from the colonies unite to define the united states and the war
  • Olive Branch Petition

    Olive Branch Petition

    A last chance ditch effort to the king of England to not have a war declared
  • common sense

    common sense

    A paper written by thomas paine for the Independence from england
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

    A document listing out the laws and rights of the people of the United States
  • Battle of Trenten

    Battle of Trenten

    General George Washington defeated the British
  • Battle of New York

    Battle of New York

    Crushing defeat of the colonies from the British. Took over a valued cort.
  • battle of saratoga

    battle of saratoga

    Colonies took over the hudsen river from the british
  • Valley Forge

    Valley Forge

    A huge amount of colonial and British soliders died at this point due to disease.
  • Battle of Monmouth

    Battle of Monmouth

    Increase american moral and strengthened the army
  • Battle of Yorktown

    Battle of Yorktown

    Three week battle that the colonies eventually won
  • Treaty of Paris

    Treaty of Paris

    Recongised the USA as a major territory