Surrender of lord cornwallis canvas john laurens 1820 (1)

American revolution

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  • French and Indian war

    French and Indian war

    the war began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763
  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763

    was a British produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the eastern Continental Divide
  • Sugar act

    Sugar act

    reduced the rate of tax on molasses from six pence to three pence per gallon
  • Stamp act

    Stamp act

    forced colonist to buy a British stamp for every official document they obtained
  • Townshend act

    Townshend act

    placed new taxes and took away some freedoms from the colonist
  • Boston massacre

    Boston massacre

    a street fight between a angry mob throwing snowballs, sticks, rocks at a group of British soldiers
  • Tea act

    Tea act

    the financial problems of the British East India Company and an ongoing dispute about the extent of Parliament's authority over the British American colonies without seating any elected representation.
  • Boston tea party

    Boston tea party

    American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.
  • Intolerable act

    Intolerable act

    the Massachusetts Government Act, which replaced the elective local government with an appointive one and increased the powers of the military governor
  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

    Battle of Lexington and Concord

    signaled the start of the American Revolutionary war
  • Olive branch petition

    Olive branch petition

    a final attempt by the colonists to avoid going to war with Britain during the American Revolution