American Revolution Era- Anna Suglia

By SugliaAn

  • Townshend Acts

    -These laws placed taxes on even more imports and on tea
    -Colonists in Boston protested the new taxes with boycotts and riots
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    French and Indian War

    -This war was 9 years.
    -The war was between the British and the French and the British and the Indians.
    -The British won the war

  • Stamp Act

    -This act required colonists to buy and place stamps on items such as wills and playing cards.
    It was the first tax that affected the colonist directly.

  • Boston Massacre

    -a group of Boston protesters gathered to harass some British soldiers.
    -The soldiers fired into into the group.
    -Five Bostonians were killed

  • Boston Tea Party

    -The government gave a British company the right to all the trade in tea.
    -One night, several colonists snuck aboard a British ship carrying tea in the Boston Harbor.
    -The colonists dumped all of the ship's tea into the harbor.

  • Intolerable Acts

    -To punish Massachusetts, Parliament passed a set of laws called the Intolerable Acts.
    -Acting under these acts, Britain closed Boston Harbor

  • Committee of Correspondence

    -The Committee of Correspondence was to communicate with each other about various threats to American liberties
    -What colonists did as a result of the Boston Massacre

  • Thomas Jefferson

    -Continental Congress moved closer to declaring the colonists independent.
    -The Congress asked Thomas Jefferson of Virginia to write a document stating the colonies reasons for declaring freedom

  • Declaration of Independence

    -document stating the colonies' reasons for declaring freedom
    -written by Thomas Jefferson

  • Battle of Trenton

    • Washington and his army crossed the Delaware river and surprised attacked the British.
    • Almost 1000 British soldiers were captured.
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    Battle of Saratoga

    -British troops and Native Americans marched south from Canada
    -The Colonial Army met them at Saratoga, New York and won the battle.
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    Valley Forge

    -Washington and his soldiers spent a horrible winter at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania in the woods outside Philadelphia
    -The American soldiers camped there suffered from hunger and frost bite.
    -More than 2,000 soldiers died.
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    The Battle of Yorktown

    -American and French forces decided to attack Cornwallis at Yorktown.
    -On October 19. 1781 the British surrendered. The Americans had won the war.

  • Treaty of Paris

    -Under the agreement, Britain recognized the United States as an independent nation.
    -The British also gave America all the land from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River.