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Thomas Jefferson one of the founding fathers of America
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Alexnder Hamilton was one of the first founding fathers of America.
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Conflict in the Ohio River Valley between the British and the French Indians allied with mostly French.
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It was a territory contract after the french and indian war.
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Parliament passed the sugar act which put taxes on anything that had sugar on it. It was a smaller tax then the molasses act but it was more heavily inforced and had greater things taxed on it.
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They were a whole bunch of taxes on a whole bunch of things.
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This was an event where British soldiers shot and killed 5 people while other people were harrassed.
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The british were low on money so they taxed tea.
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This is where the colonits were mad about being taxed unfairly and threw all of the tea from england into the water.
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It was meant to punish the colonits for throwing tea into the ocean.
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The First Continental Congress was a group of people elected by the 13 colonies to represent them.
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This was the first battle of the American Revolutionary War. It was the war where the phrase "A shot around the world" came from and also "The British are coming."
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This was the second group of people of representatives for the 13 colonies.
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It was a war about a key waterway. Using the waterway they took over a fort which had cannons and with those cannons they took over another fort.
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They got attacked and they were low on gunpowder so they built a minor fort and one of the American generals said not to fire until they say the whites in there eyes.
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This was a battle on a hill in Charleston. One of the famous quotes that was said there because they were low on gunpowder was. "Don't shoot till you see the whites of there eyes."
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Thomas Paine.
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The Declaration of Independence was a paper signed saying that the 13 colonies were not apart of Britan anymore.
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This was the Treaty that ended the war and gave the 13 colonies there land.
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This was the day the George Washington became the first president of the United States of America.