American Revolution Part 1

By ccc1999
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    French and Indian War

    he French and Indian War comprised the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War of 1754–1763
  • Treaty of Paris

    Treaty of Paris

    Ended the 7 year war.
  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763

    Prohibited all settling west of the Appalachian mountains.
  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act

    Taxes on mollasses and sugar imposed by the British
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

    Required all papers be stamped to be considered legal.
  • Declaratory Act

    Declaratory Act

    Repeal of Stamp act
  • Townshend Revenue Acts

    Townshend Revenue Acts

    Duties on tea, glass, lead, paper and paint to help pay for the administration of the colonies,
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    Five cillvilians killed by British troops
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians dump 9,000 euros of East India Company tea into the Boston harbor.
  • The Tea Act

    The Tea Act

    Parliament exempted its tea from import duties and allowed the Company to sell its tea directly to the colonies.
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts

    Four measures which stripped Massachusetts of self-government and judicial independence
  • Quartering act of 1774;

    Quartering act of 1774;

    British troops to be given food and shelter at the expense of the American colonists
  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress

    Colonial delegates meet to organise opposition to the Intolerable Acts.
  • Second Continental Congress

    Second Continental Congress

    managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence,
  • Patrick Henry’s “Give Me Liberty or Give Me death” speech

    Patrick Henry’s “Give Me Liberty or Give Me death” speech

    To avoid interference from Lieutenant
  • Battles of Lexington and Concord

    Battles of Lexington and Concord

    First engagements of the Revolutionary War between British troops and the Minutemen
  • George Washington named Commander in Chief

    George Washington named Commander in Chief

    was commissioned "commander-in-chief of the army of the United Colonies of all the forces raised and to be raised by them
  • Olive Branch Petition

    Olive Branch Petition

    Congress endorses a proposal asking for recognition of American rights, the ending of the Intolerable Acts in exchange for a cease fire
  • Thomas Paine writes “Common Sense”

    Thomas Paine writes “Common Sense”

    advocated independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies
  • Declaration of Independence;

    Declaration of Independence;

    statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776,