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Navigation Acts
Laws that restricted the use of foreign ships. -
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin was one of the founding fathers of the United States and helped draft the Declaration of Independence. He also helped at Valley Forge and kept the men together -
Samuel Adams
Served as one of the leaders for the American revolution. -
Crispus Attuck
Attuck was a native American salve or freeman. He was the first casualty of the Boston Massacre and is widely considered to be the first American casualty in the American Revolutionary War -
George Washington
General George Washington led the Continental Army and he made a winning strategy which made victorious at the Battle of Trenton and Yorktown. -
Francis Marion
Known as the Swamp Fox, a military officer who served in the American Revolution, one of the fathers of guerilla warfare. -
Paul Revere
Best Known for alerting militia that British are coming before the battles of Lexington and Concord -
Patrick Henry
Known as ab orator during the movement for independence in Virginia, served first and sixth post-colonial governor in Virginia. -
Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine was born in 1737 and he was a journalist and an American Revolution hero. In 1776 he published a pamphlet called the Common Sense. It was a strong defense of American Independence from England. -
Ethan Allen
He was a philosopher and an American Revolutionary War Patriot and a hero. He was known for the capture of Ticonderoga early in the American Revolutionary War. -
Haym Salomon
Haym Salomon gave bills to the Bank of North America to help support the Americans pay the debts for war. In exchange for giving bills to the bank, he wanted free personal loans to members of congress. -
Benedict Arnold
Was an American Revolution general who betrayed the Continental Army and joined the British Army. -
Thomas Jefferson
He was the 3rd President of the United States, 2nd Vice President of the United States, 1st Secretary of State, the 2nd governor of Virginia, a minister, and a delegate to the 1st and 2nd Continental Congress -
John Jay
He was one of the Founding fathers of the united states, the first Chief Justice of the United States, and a signer of the treaty of Paris. -
William Dawes
Helped Boston’s militia artillery company secure four canons from the British. -
Wentworth Cheswell
He rode to Exeter to get instructions where the men were to be sent to the Battle of Lexington. -
Bernardo Galvez
In the early years of the Revolution, Bernardo Galvez provided aid to the American army by allowing tons of supplies to be shipped up the Mississippi to patriot forces in the north to help them win the fight. -
John Paul Jones
He was a sailor who fought in the Battle of Yorktown. At night, his ship crashed into another ship, so the British captain asked John if he wanted to surrender to him and John refused so later the British captain surrendered. -
French and Indian War
The war was fought between the British American Colonies and New France. When Frances expansions into the Ohio River Valley brought repeated conflicts with the claims of the British Colonies, a series of battles led to the British declaration of War -
Nathan Hale
A soldier for the continental army volunteered for an intelligence-gathering mission but was captured and executed by the British. -
Green Mountain Boys
The British provinces of New Hampshire ad New York coming together to form a military group called the Green Mountain Boys -
James Armistead
James Armistead was an African American slave who served the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War as a double agent. -
Proclamation of 1763
Britain wanted to stop Native Americans and settlers' battles, so they limited westward expansion. This angered the colonists that had already bought land west of the Appalachian Mountains. -
The Stamp Act
A tax that applied to all printed material in the colonies. -
Quartering Act
Colonists were forced to pay for the housing for the British troops and were expected to provide food and drinks for the groups -
Lexington and Concord
The British came to raid Concord but the men of Lexington killed the British. -
Sons of Liberty
A secret society formed to protect the rights of the colonist and fight the British taxations. -
Daughters of Liberty
A group of 92 women who formed a group and displayed their loyalty in boycotts of British good. -
Declaratory Act
The Declaratory Act didn’t pass new laws, it reminded colonist that the British Parliament had lawmaking control over the colonies. -
Townshend Act
Charles Townshend thought that placing taxes on imported products could make a big profit, divided Great British Britain and the Colonies -
Boston Massacre
On March 5 British soldiers opened fire on a group of American colonists a total of 5 people died -
Committee of Correspondence
The first institution for the patriots to maintain communication lines through the American Revolution. The American colonists communicated the opposition of British customs and the banning of American paper money. -
Tea Act
A law from parliament, British East India being allowed to directly sell to colonists, leaving tea merchants angered, lead to Boston Tea Party. -
Boston Tea Party
70 men who dressed up as Indians solely to throw over the British tea barrels. -
Quebec Act
Allowed French Canadians to have religious freedom. -
First Continental Congress
This established the first government for the American colonies and discussed compromises to the new taxation without representation. This first congress eventually led up to the colonies becoming the independent, governmental, United States. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
This battle occurred during the Siege of Boston. Unfortunately, the patriots were defeated as the British drove the colonists Charleston peninsula. -
Olive Branch Petition
The Olive Branch Petition was a letter from the Second Continental congress to King George 3rd which was the last attempt to avoid the war between Britain and the colonies. -
Continental Army
The continental army was formed after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War by the colonies that became the United States of America. It was established by a resolution of the Continental Congress on June 14, 1775. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress meeting at Philadelphia Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen independent colonies, and were no longer under the ruler of the British. -
Common Sense
Common Sense was written by Thomas Paine and it stated that colonist should stop following British unfair rule and become a Democracy -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention where the delegate from the thirteen colonies would come and have a meeting in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania. The meeting soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War. -
Battle of Saratoga
From September 19, 1777, to October 7, 1777, 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. -
Valley Forge
The American continental army spent the winter 1777-1778 during the American Revolutionary war. They ended starvation, disease, and being exposed to all these things caused death of over 2500 American soldiers by the end of February. -
Battle of Yorktown
The battle of Yorktown ended on October 19, 1781, at Yorktown Virginia, was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by general George Washington and French Army troops led by Comte de Rochambeau, over a British Army commanded by a British Lord. -
Treaty of Paris
The treaty of Paris was an end to the American Revolutionary war. It was signed by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and the representatives of the U.S of America on September 3, 1783.
