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Stamp Act
The new trax imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. -
Townshend Act
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Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre is considered by many historians to be the first battle of the Revolutionary War. -
Boston Tea Party
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Intolerable Acts
5-20-1774; 6-2-1774; 6-22-1774 -
Second Continental Congress
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Battle of Bunker Hill
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Olive Branch Petition
A letter to King George III, from members of the Second Continental Congress, whcih represents the last attempt by the moderate party in North America to avoid a war of independence agaisnt Britain. -
Common Sense is published
Challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy. The plain language that Paine used spoke to the common people of America and was the first work to openly ask for independence from Great Britain. -
Declaration of Independence
Staement adopted by the Continental Congress, whcih announced that the 13 American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire -
Trenton
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Battle at Saratoga
Crucial victory for the Patriots during th eAmerican Revolution and is considered the turning point of the Revolutionary War. -
Yorktown
General George Washington, commanding a force of 17,000 French and Continental troops, begins the siege known as the Battle of Yorktown against British General Lord Charles Cornwallis and a contingent of 9,000 British troops at Yorktown, Virginia, in the most important battle of the Revolutionary War. -
Treaty of Paris
Ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain on one side and the United States of America and its allies on the other. The other combatant nation, France, Spain and the Dutch Republic had separate agreement; for deatils of these, and the negotiations.
