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The Treaty of Paris
Britain claimed all North America east of the Mississippi River. To reward Spain for its help, Freance gave it New Orleans and Louisiana, the French territory west of the Mississippi. Britain gave Cuba and the Phillipines back to Spain to exchange for Florida. The treaty ended French Power in North America. -
Proclamation of 1763
The purpose of the proclamation was to organize Great Britain's new North American empire and to stabilize relations with Native North Americans through regulation of trade, settlement, and land purchases on the western frontier. It eventually ensured that British culture and laws were applied in Upper Canada after 1791, which was done to attract British settlers to the province -
Sugar Act
Sugar Act, this law placed a tax on sugar, molasses, and othe products shipped to the colonies. It also called for strict enforcement of the act and harsh punishment of smuggles. This upsets the colonies and causes disagreement. They say that Parliament had no right to tax the colonies, since the colonies were not represented in Parliament. -
Stamp Act
Stamp Act, This law required all legal and commercial documents to carry an official stamp showing that tax had been paid. All diplomas, constracts, and wills had to carry a stamp. Colonial leaders vigorously protested. For them, the issue was clear. They were being taxed without their consent by Parliament in which they had no voice. -
Quatering Act
King George III, the British monarch, wanted to wnforce the proclamation and also keep peace with Britain's Native Americans allies. To do this, he decided to keep 10,000 soldiers in the colonies. In 1765, Parliament passed the Quartering Act. This was a cost-saving measure that required the colonies to quarter, or house, British soldiers and provide them with supplies. -
Townshend Acts
The king's finance minister, Charles Townshend, told Parliament that he had a way to raise revenue in the colonies. The first of the townshend Acts suspended New York's assembly until New Yorkers agreed to provide housing for the troops. The other acts placed duties, or import taxes, on various goods brought into the colonies, such as glass, paper, paint, lead, and tea. -
Boston Massacre
A group of youths and dockworkers--Among Crispus Attucks--started trading insults in front of the custom House. A fight broke out, and the soldiers began firing. Attucks and four laborers were killed. The son of Liberty called the shooting the Boston Massacre because Attucks and four others had given their lives for freedom. The incident became a tool for anti-British propaganda. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act gave the British East India Company control over the American tea trade. The tea would arrive in the colonies only in trading company's ships and be sold there by its merchants. Colonosts who had not been paying ant tax on smuggled tea would now have to pay a tax on this regulated tea. This enraged colonial shippers and merchants. -
Boston Tea Party
A group of men disguised as Native Americans boarded three tea ships docked in Boston Habor. That night George Hewes and the others destoyed 342 chests of tea. They believe that Britain would now see how strongly colonists opposed taxation without representation. They offerd to pay for the tea if Parliament would repeal the Tea Act but Britain rejected. Britain wanted the men who destroyed the tea and this caused Intolerable Acts. -
Intolerable Acts
Parliament passed a series of laws to punish the Massachusetts colony and to serve as a warning to other colonies. The British called these laws the Coercive Acts, but they were so harsh that the colonists called them the Intolerable Acts. They close the port of Boston until the colonists paid for the destroyed tea, banned committees of correspondence, allowed Britain to house troops wherever necessary, let British officials accused of crimes in the colonies stand trail in Britan. -
1st Continental Congress
Delegates from all the colonies except Georgia met in Philadephia. They voted to ban all trade with Britain until the Intolerable repealed. They also called on each colony to begin training troops. This meeting planted the seeds of a future independent government. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
Lexington and Concord were the first battles of the Revolutionary War. Colonial troops had fired the "shot heard around the world" Americans would now have to choose sides and back up their political oppinions by force of arms. Those who supported the British were called Loyalists. Those who sided with the rebels were Patriots. -
2nd Continental Congress
Delegates included John and Samuel Adams, John Hancock, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and Patrick Henry. They agreed to form the Vontinental Army. Washington, whon was from Virginia, was chosen as its commanding general. It was beginning to act as a government. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
General William Howe crossed the bay with 2,200 British soldiers. They marched up Breed's Hill, the militia waited on the hilltop. When the British got cols, the militia unleashed muderous fire. The British forced the militia off the hill. More than 1,000 were killed or wounded, compared with some 400 militia casualties. The inexperienced colonial militia had held its own against the world's most powerful army. -
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
The publication of a pamphlet titled Common Sense helped convince many Americans that a complete break with Britain was necessary. Paine argued that all monarchies were corrupt. Common Sense was an instant success. -
Declaration of Independence
Congress adopted the document that proclaimed independence--the Declaration of Independence. The core idea of the Declaration is based on the philosophy of John Locke. This idea is that people have unalienable rights, or rights that government can't take away. Jefferson stated this belief in what was to become the Declaration's best-known passage. Americans had declared independence. Now they had to win their freedom on the battlefield. -
Battle of Long Island
The Battle of Long Island, also known as the Battle of Brooklyn or the Battle of Brooklyn Heights 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. -
American Crisis by Thomas Paine
Polotical writer Thomas Paine also witnessed the hard conditions and soldiers' low spirits on the retreat. To urge them to keep fighting, Paine published the first in a series of phamplets called American Crisis. -
Battle of Trenton
During the American Revolutionary War, after General George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River north of Trenton, New Jersey. The hazardous crossing in adverse weather made it possible for Washington to lead the main body of the Continental Army against Hessian soldiers garrisoned at Trenton. After a brief battle, nearly the entire Hessian force was captured, with negligible losses to the Americans. -
Winter at Valley Forge
Valley Forge in Pennsylvania was the site of the military camp of the American Continental Army over the winter of 1777–1778 during the American Revolutionary War. It is approximately 20 miles northwest of Philadelphia. Starvation, disease, and exposure killed nearly 2,500 American soldiers by the end of February 1778. Because of this, the name Valley Forge came to stand for the great hardships that Americans endured in Revolutionary War. -
Battles of Saratoga
During March to Albany, Burgoyne's army faces Continental Army. Series of battles break out between British, American troops. Burgoyne's army is soon surrounded, Burgoyne surrenders. The series of battles known as Battle of Saratoga.
The battles of Sarato ga have two main results.
- convinces European nations that Americans might win the war.
- Benedict Arnold angry about lack of recognition, betrays his army. -
Battle of Yorktown
The American and French troops bombarded Yorktown with cannon fire, turning its building to rubble. Cornwallis had no way out. on October 19,1781, he surrended his force about 8,000. British prime minister, Lord North, heard the news. He and other Britain's new leaders began to negotiate a peace treaty. -
Treaty of Paris of 1783
As the winners, the Americans who favorable terms in the Treaty of Paris of 1783, which ended the Revolutionary War. American didn't repay the prewar debts they owned British merchants or return Loyalist property. For their part, the British didn't return runaway slaves. The also refuse to give up military outspots in Great Lakes area.
