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Stamp Act
A legeslation that made it so everyone had to have a stamp on their documents meaning they paid the taxes for it. -
Protest of Stamp Act
The colonists began protesting the Stamp Act. Protests began with petitions and led to refusals not to pay the tax. -
Gaspee Affair
The HMS Gaspee was a British Customs schooner that had been enforcing unpopular trade regulations on the colonists. In an act of defiance a group of men led by Abraham Whipple attacked the ship and set it on fire. -
Coercive Acts
This legislation's purpose was to restore order in Massachusetts, following the Boston Tea Party and other acts of defiance. -
Boston Tea Party
after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor. -
Quebec Act
The Quebec Act was setting procedures of governance in the Province of Quebec. This was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain. -
First Continental Congress
It was called in response to the passage of the Coercive Acts by the British Parliament. The Intolerable Acts had punished Boston for the Boston Tea Party. -
Paul Revere's Ride
Revere helped arrange the alarm to warn the other states and colonies of when the British were coming. Was part of the group of men who warned everyone and made everyone prepared for the battle. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of The American Revolutionary War. The battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in the mainland of British North America. -
Second Continental Congress
a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies right after the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
1,200 colonial troops under the command of William Prescott occupied Bunker hill so that the British Troops could not take control over them. -
George Washington Appointed General
The Continental Congress commissioned him Commander in Chief of the Continental Army. -
Olive Branch Petition
The petition made an American loyalty to Great Britain and confirmed that the king to prevent further conflict. -
Proclamation for Supressing Rebellion and Sedition
The response of George the 3rd to the news of The Battle of Bunker Hill. -
Committees of Correspondence Established
Governments organized by patriot leaders of the thirteen colonies right before the American Revolution. -
Common Sense Published
Common Sense by Thomas Paine challenged the government and monarchy. Spoke of independance for Great Britain. -
British Evacuate Boston
When the British decided to retreat out of Boston instead of continuing fighting. -
Writing of The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is the nation's most cherished symbol of liberty and Thomas Jefferson's greatest known monument. -
Declaration of Independence
What Thomas Jefferson did was to summarize this idea in "self-evident truths" and set forth a list of complaints against the King in order to give a good reason for the breaking of ties between the colonies and England.
