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The French and Indian War
The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war provided Great Britain with enormous territorial gains in North America. -
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Sugar Act
This was a British tax on sugar, it was supposed to lower tax but was going to be collected. -
Stamp Act
British Parliament passed the "Stamp Act" to help pay for British troops stationed in the colonies during the Seven Years' War. The act required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a signal event leading to the Revolutionary War. It led directly to the Royal Governor evacuating the occupying army from the town of Boston. It would soon bring the revolution to armed rebellion throughout the colonies. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a raid that took place in the Boston Harbor, during which American colonists dumped shiploads of tea into the water to protest a British tax on tea. -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act stated that Great Britain would house its soldiers in American barracks and public houses. And if the soldiers outnumbered colonial housing, they would be quartered in inns, alehouses, barns, other buildings. -
Bunker Hill
This expensive British triumph helped shape the early course of the conflict by demonstrating that scary power alone would not achieve triumph. It likewise demonstrated that there was no returning: the conflict would be a long one with no quick political arrangement -
The battles of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord, the famous 'shot heard', marked the start of the American War of Independence. It was considered the kickoff or the start of the American Revolution. -
Washington crosses the Delaware
Having been forced to abandon New York City and driven across New Jersey by the British, George Washington and the Continental Army struck back on Christmas night by stealthily crossing the ice-strewn Delaware River, surprising the Hessian garrison at Trenton at dawn, and taking some 900 prisoners. -
Battle of Saratoga
This was a single battle at all but the failure of the British campaign from the north made this the war’s most significant military turning point. The surrender of a British army encouraged France to openly join the conflict. -
Battle of Trenton
After crossing the Delaware River in a treacherous storm, General George Washington's army defeated a garrison of Hessian mercenaries at Trenton. The victory set the stage for another success at Princeton a week later and boosted the morale of the American troops. -
Kings Mountain
The annihilation of loyalist militia on the South Carolina frontier forced the British to revise their southern strategy and demonstrated that their overextended forces could be defeated in detail. -
Cowpens
This abrupt loss of a significant British power halted British hostile energy in the south and restored the spirits of American powers, starting the mission that finished the conflict. -
Battle of Yorktown
The Battle of Yorktown ended up being the unequivocal commitment of the American Revolution. The British acquiescence conjecture the finish of British guidelines in the provinces and the introduction of another country—the United States of America. -
Treaty of Paris ends the war
After the British loss at Yorktown, the land fights in America to a great extent vanished yet the battling proceeded adrift, essentially between the British and America's European partners, which came to incorporate Spain and the Netherlands. The military verdict in North America was reflected in the preliminary Anglo-American peace treaty of 1782, which was included in the Treaty of Paris of 1783.