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Royaal proclamation Of 1763
A Document that set out guidelines for European settlement of Aboriginal territories in what is now North America. The Royal Proclamation was initially issued by King George III in 1763 to officially claim British territory in North America after Britain won the Seven Years War -
Stamp Act of 1765
Colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. -
Townshend Taxes and the Boston Massacre
The Townshend taxes was from British parliamentary measures to tax the American colonists. Boston Massacre was an incident that led to the deaths of five civilians at the hands of British troops on March 5, 1770, the legal aftermath of which helped spark the rebellion in some of the British American colonies -
The Boston Tea Party
Citizens of Boston raided three British ships in Boston harbor and dumped hundreds of chests of tea into the harbor this was organized as a protest against taxes on tea. -
The Intolerable Acts
Name used to describe a series of five laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Britain's colonies in North America, The five acts were Boston Port Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Administration of Justice Act, Quartering Act and the Quebec Act. -
The First Continental Congress
A convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen North American colonies that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, they met briefly to consider options, including an economic boycott of British trade. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
Was the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. This was because British troops wanted to seize the colonists' military supplies and arrest revolutionaries -
Second Continental Congress
This meeting managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. By raising armies, directing strategy, appointing diplomats, and making formal treaties -
Battle of Bunker Hill
The battle is named after the adjacent Bunker Hill, which was peripherally involved in the battle and was the original objective of both colonial and British troops, and is occasionally referred to as the "Battle of Breed's Hill." -
Thomas Paine's Common Sense
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine. It was first published anonymously and challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy. The plain language that Paine used spoke to the common people of America and was the first work to openly ask for independence from Great Britain -
Declaration of Independence
This document recording the proclamation of the second Continental Congress which asserted the freedom and independence of the 13 Colonies from Great Britain -
Battles of Saratoga
This was a turning point in the war. The battles were fought eighteen days apart on the same ground, 9 miles south of Saratoga, New York. -
Battle at Yorktown
The siege proved to be the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War in North America. The surrender ended the American Revolution -
Treaty of Paris
Ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain on one side and the United States of America and its allies on the other
