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French and Indian War
France and the Native Americans fought England. England won but had a debt. -
Proclamation of 1763
To prevent conflicts between colonists and Native Americans, England told the colonists they could not settle west of the Appalachian Mountains -
Stamp Act
The tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Legal documents, licenses, playing cards were taxed, etc. -
Townshend Act
series of four acts passed by the British Parliament -
Boston Massacre
Redcoats fire on unarmed colonists. -
Tea Act
Tea Act was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain -
Boston Tea Party
Colonists, led by Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty, boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. -
Intolerable Acts
Laws that punished Boston for the Tea Party protest. -
Lexington and Concord
First battle of the American Revolution -
Declaration of Independence
The declaration of independence is an article written by Thomas Jefferson in 1776. It proclaimed the right to independence for the American colonies to separate from Great Britain. -
Battle of Saratoga
Turning point of war. France decides to help America -
Valley Forge
Valley Forge was the military camp in southeastern Pennsylvania, where the American Continental Army spent the winter during the American Revolutionary War. -
Battle of Yorktown
The Americans and the French surround and defeat the British. Last Battle -
Treaty of Paris of 1783
Treaty that ended the war. England recognized America's Independence
