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sugar act
The British placed a tax on sugar, wine, and other important things. The British did this because they wanted more money -
stamp act
the British government started the Stamp Act. Anything printed on paper needed a stamp that was bought from the English. The stamps cost money and it was England who got the money. -
boston massacre
The British had put troops in many colonial towns to keep order. These soldiers in bright red coats played their songs and drums and put up their tents on Boston Common. Colonists insulted them because they hated them. One night, things got out of hand. About four hundred men had gathered in front of the Customs House. Eight British sentries were standing guard. -
intolerble act
The Intolerable Acts were laws that were really punishments that King George III put on the colonies. He did this to the Colonists because he wanted to punish them for dumping tea into the harbor at the Boston Tea Party -
The battles of lexington and concord
Was one of the first blood sheds of the revoulotuion not considered a battle but a skirmish -
the siege of fort ticonderoga
A place that held munitions and on may 9 a 100 troops snuck in -
battle of chelsa creek
second milatry attackof bost campaign and revoultionary war -
battle of bnker hill/breeds hill
The british were trying to occupy the hills in the area so a genreal had a hill fortified the americans won the first two engagmentas but not the 3 when they ran out of ammo -
the battle of Quebec
A place where americans tried to drive the british out of quebec and on to the providence -
Dorchester Heights
British forced to evacuate New
England -
Declaration of Independence
colonists urged their delegates to
the 2nd Continental Congress to
call for independence -
the battle of long island
The British saw the strategic importance of New York as the main point for communication between the northern and southern colonies. Washington also saw this, and in April of 1776 he brought his troops from Boston to New York
