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1775 BCE
Battles of Lexington and Concord
kicked off the American Revolutionary War (1775-83). hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord in order to seize an arms cache. Paul Revere and other riders sounded the alarm, and colonial militiamen began mobilizing to intercept the Redcoat column. A confrontation on the Lexington town green started off the fighting, and soon the British were hastily retreating under intense fire. This battle showed they have the chance to do it and the power to even win made them believe -
Albany Plan
place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government. Albany Plan was the first important proposal to conceive of the colonies as a collective whole united under one government. -
The stamp act
The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed. It showed them they deserved better and it made them want equal rights and find freedom so they don't have to follow them, made the first continental congress, to fight back. -
Boston Massacre
an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers shot and killed several people while under attack by a mob. The incident was heavily publicized by leading Patriots, such as Paul Revere and Samuel Adams, to encourage rebellion against the British authorities. Eight soldiers, one officer, and four civilians were arrested and charged with murder. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773. In defiance of the Tea Act of May 10, 1773, the demonstrators, some disguised as Native Americans, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company. They threw the cheast of tea into Boston harbor The Tea Party was the culmination of a resistance movement throughout British America against the Tea Act, which had been passed by the British Parliament in 1773. -
First Continental Congress
the first was to go against the stamp act, first time colonies came together to fight for what they wanted. It lead to independence because it gave us the thought of freedom and how good it feels. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts was the term used by American Patriots for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Boston Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British to the detriment of Colonial goods. It made them want freedom and it made them come together and work as a team to fight back. -
Second Continental Congress
the second was to unite the colonies and gain freedom. work to break the laws gain freedom. The want for freedom and the need for it made people revolt and fight, slowly turning into war and the independence gained. Showed how powerful they are together. -
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American Revolution
The American Revolution was a colonial revolt that took place between 1765 and 1783. The American Patriots in the Thirteen Colonies won independence from Great Britain, becoming the United States of America. They defeated the British in the American Revolutionary War in alliance with France and others. After they defeated them they gained their independence and were able to be free. -
Declaration of Independence
an assertion by a defined territory that it is independent and constitutes a state. Such places are usually declared from part or all of the territory of another nation or failed nation, or are breakaway territories from within the larger state. gained there freedom. This wrote down their freedom.
