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Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was direct tax imposed by British Parliament on the colonies of British America. "No taxiation without Representation" It was a major grievance that led to the American Revolution. The purpose of the tax was to help pay for troops stationed in North America after British victory in the Seven Years War. -
Gaspee Affair
The Gaspee Affair happened in Gaspee Point in the city of Warwick, Rhode Island. A group of men, led by Abraham Whipple and John Brown, boarded, looted, and torched the HMS Gaspee, a british schooner that had been enforcing unpopular trade regulations. This was a significant event that led up to the American Revolution. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea party was a direct act by the colonists in Boston against the British government and the East India Company. After officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists destroyed the tea by throwing it into the Boston Harbor. The Boston Tea Party was a key event in growth of the American Revolution. -
Coercive Acts
The coercive acts were a series of laws passed by British Parliament relating to Britain's colonies in North America. The acts triggered outrage and resistance. The acts that were passed were the Boston Port Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Administration of Justice Act, Quatering Act, and the Quebec Act. Four of those acts were created due to the Boston Tea Party. In 1774, Americans organized the First Continental Congress to coordinate a protest. -
First Continetal Congress
Convention of delegates from tweleve-thirteen Northern American colonies at Carpenter Hill in Philadelphia. It was a response to the Coercive Acts(which had punished the Boston for the Boston Tea Party). They met briefly to consider options, including an economic boycott for British trade. -
Paul Reveres Ride
When British army activity suggested the possibility of troops movements, Joseph Warren sent Revere to warn the MA Provinetial Congress. After Delivering warning, Concord residents began moving military supplies away from town. Between nine and ten pm that night, Joseph Warren told Revere and Williams Dawes that the kings troops were coming. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
First military engagements of the American Revolution. It happened in Mass Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Mentomy, and Cambridge. The battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the kingdom of Great Britain and the thirteen colonies. -
Second Continental Congress
Managed the Colonial war efforted, and incrementally towards independence, adopting United States Declaration of Independence. By raising armies, directing strartergies, appointing diplomats, and making formal treaties the Congress acted as a defacto national government of what become America -
Second Continental Congress
It manage colonial war effort, and incrementally pushed towards independence, adopted the United States Declaration of Independence, by raising armies, directing stratergy, appointing diplomats and making formal treaties and making formal treaties and making formal treaties the congress acted as a defacto national government of what become America. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
Took place on and around Breeds Hill. Battle was named after the adjacent Bunker Hill, which peripnerally involved the battle and was the original objective of both Colonial and British troops -
Olive Branch Petition
Adopted by Contential Congress in order to avoid a full blown war with Great Britain. The petition was first drafter by Thomas Jefferson but was mostly written by John Dickinson. -
Proclamation for Surpressing Rebellion and Sedition
The proclamation for suppressing rebellion and sedition declared events of the American colonies in a state of "open and avowed rebellion". It encouraged subjects throughout the empire to report anyone carrying on "traitorous correspondence" with the rebels so they could be punished. They ordered officials at the British empire "to use their utmost endeavours to withstand and surpress such rebellion". -
Committees of Correspondences Established
This was the setting up of the Continetal Congress. Disseminating the Colonial interpretation of British actions between the colonies and foreign government. -
Common Sense (Published)
This is pamphlet written by Tomas Paine, the pamphlet was published annonymously. It was the largest sale and circulation of any book in American History. The pamphlet presented the American Colonies at the time with an arugment of freedom from British rule at the time when the question of Independence was still questioned. -
British Evacute Boston
Eleven month seige of Boston, ended when the Continental Army, under command of George Washington, fortified Dorchester Heights with cannons captured at Ticonderoga. British evacuation was Washingtons first victory war. -
Declaration of Independence
This is the Nations most cherished document as a symbol of liberty. A statement which was adopted by Contenial Congress, which announced that the thirteen colonies regarded to themselves as idependent states.
