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Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was when the British put a tax on every piece of paper they used. The money collected was used to pay the costs of the defending the colonies. -
Protest of the Stamp Act
The colonists made petitions in protest, harrassed officers, caused damage and some refused to pay the taxes of the Stamp Act. -
The Gaspee Affair
The Gaspee was a ship, and many Rhode Islanders hated the commander of that ship because he searched ships without a warrant and sent his crew ashore to get food without paying for it. Colonists burned the ship, and the British were enraged. -
Committees of Correspondence Established
The Committees of Correspondence was formed to exchange ideas and letters about the British with other colonies. -
British Pulled out of Virginia
The British troops left Virginia to leave the Patriots in contol because the american troops attacked and defeated Virginia's governor. -
Boston Tea Party
The Parlaiment and the King put a tax on tea, and this led the colonists to rebel. When a ship was coming into the Boston Harbor, hundreds of men got on the ship and dumped all of the tea, the British were enraged. -
Coercive Acts
This act closed Boston Harbor untill they paid for the tea they ruined in the Boston Tea Party. Also, this act required the colonists to provide food and shelter for any British soilders. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a group of 55 people who represented 12 of the British North American colonies. These people discussed what they were going to do next. -
Quebec Act
This act was mainly intended to build French-Canadian loyalty to the British. This act stated that a goverener and a council appoinented by the king would run Quebec and this angered the colonists -
Paul Revere's Ride
This was when patriot leaders heard about the British's plan to arrest congress and sent Paul Revere and William Dawes to spread the alarm to warn that the British were coming. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The British troopes arrived in Lexington and saw some 70 minutemen lined up. They ordered the colonists to disperse, and they began to back away when a shot was fired (no one is sure of whom.) -
Second Continental Congress
The congress appointed George Washington as general and commander in chief of the new army. They met in Philadelphia to discuss defense. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
This battle took place on the Charlestown Peninsula and it was faught between the British troops and the troops of the American Continental Army. -
Olive Branch Petition
This petition was adopted by the continental Congress and it was intended to avoid war with Britian. This petition discussed American loyalty to Great Britian. -
George Washington Appoinrted General
The Second Continental Congress appointed George Washington as General in chief in the new army. -
Proclamation of Supressing Rebellion and Sedition
This proclamation drew a linee from north to south along the Appalachian Mountains and declared that colonists could not settle west of the line without the British government's permission. -
Common Sense Published
This was when THomas Paine published a pamphlet saying that the British Parlaiment was the enemy, and not the king. This convinced people to want a democracy. -
British Evacuate Boston
British forces were forced to evacuate Boston when the American army set up cannons to attack the British. The cannons were being fired from Fort Ticonderoga.11,000 British troops and 1,000 Loyalists departed Boston on ships. -
The Declaration of Independene
Declaring the United States of America a free country. -
Writing of Declaration of Independence
A committee composed of John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston and Thomas Jefferson declared themselves the United States of America in the Declaration of Independence.
