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Proclamation Line
After the French and Indian War, to avoid war with the Indians, British passed a law saying that all colonists were not allowed to live anywhere west of the Appalachian Mountains. Any colonists who lived west of the Appalachian(Proclamation Line) were told to leave. -
The Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed. The money collected by the Stamp Act was to be used to help pay the costs of defending and protecting the American frontier -
The Boston Massacre
On the cold, snowy night of March 5, 1770, a mob of American colonists gathers at the Customs House in Boston and begins taunting the British soldiers guarding the building. Then they started throwing rocks and snow balls at the soldiers. The soldiers then started firing their riles and when the smoke was all gone Crispus Attucks, Patrick Carr, Samuel Gray, Samuel Maverick, and James Caldwell were all dead.This event started war. -
The Boston Tea
The Boston Tea Party of December 16, 1773, took place when a group of Massachusetts Patriots, protesting the monopoly on American tea importation recently granted by Parliament to the East India Company, seized 342 chests of tea in a midnight raid on three tea ships and threw them into the harbor. -
"Give me liberty our give me DEATH"
Patrick henry wrote the famous speech, "give me liberty or give me death speech" andhe spoke these famous words that inspired many colonists, "I know not what course others may take, but as for me; give me liberty or give me death." -
The Battle of Lexington and Concord
The first battle of the Revolutionary War, fought in Massachusetts on April 19, 1775. British troops had moved from Boston toward Lexington and Concord to seize the colonists' military supplies and arrest revolutionaries. In Concord, advancing British troops met resistance from the Minutemen, and American volunteers harassed the retreating British troops along the Concord-Lexington Road. Paul Revere, on his famous ride, had first alerted the Americans to the British movement. -
The Battle of Saratoga
This battle in New York helped Benjamin Franklin convince the French to help fight in the war as an ally for the patriots. The Frenchwould later help support amd help in many victories. This major turning point in the war gave the American cause confidence and renewed hope. -
Yorktown
The Battle of Yorktown was a military conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in North America during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). The year and date that the Battle of Yorktown took place on Tuesday, October 09, 1781. The battlefield in which the British and American Forces fought during the Battle of Yorktown was located in Yorktown, Virginia. The Battle of Yorktown ended in victory for the American colonists. On October 19, 1781, the British laid -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris of 1783 ended the U.S. Revolutionary War and granted the thirteen colonies political independence. A preliminary treaty between Great Britain and the United States was signed in 1782, but the final agreement was not signed until September 3, 1783.
