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American Revolution
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Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest. Colonist dresed as Indians and dumped British tea into the Boston harbor. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts was a series of British measures passed in 1774 and designed to punish the Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
Conflicts between Massachusetts colonists and British sodiers that started the Revolutionary War. It was also the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
Washington Becomes Head of Army
Congress chose George Washington, a Virginian, to be commander in chief. Washington's military experience was perhaps greater than that of any other American, and he came from the largest and arguably the most important of the southern colonies. -
Declaration of Independence Signed
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were two of the people that sighned the Decalaration of Independents. It was a document starting hat the 13 English Colonies were free and independent nation. -
Battle of Long Island
The Battle of Long Island was a battle that took place in New York. There more than 1,400 Americans were killed, wounded, or captured. -
Battle of Saratoga
The Battle of Saratoga is the first major American victory in the Revolution, which ended the British threat to New England. The Battles of Saratoga marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War. -
Battle of Yorktown
The Battle of Yorktown was the final battle in the Revolution. This American victory in Virginia forced the British to surrender. It was also the Surrender at Yorktown or the German Battle -
Paris Peace Treaty
The Paris Peace Conference, also known as Versailles Peace Conference, was the meeting of the Allied victors, following the end of World War I to set the peace terms for the defeated Central Powers following the armistices of 1918.