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Revolution War
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Proclamation of 1767
The Proclamation was represented by King George 3 following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, in which it forbade settlers from settling past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was an incident in which British Army soldiers killed five civilian men and injured six others. -
Boston Tea Party
It took place when a group of Massachusetts Patriots, protesting against the taxes of tea, seized 342 chests of tea in a midnight raid on three tea ships and threw them into the harbor. -
Lexington and Concord
Tensions had been building for many years between residents of the 13 American colonies and the British authorities, particularly in Massachusetts, so they fought. -
Bunker Hill
Was the first important battle of the American War of Independence. The British ended up defeating or winning against the colonial forces -
Olive Branch Petition
A petition adopted by the Continental Congress in July 1775 in a fortified attempt to avoid a full-blown war between the Thirteen Colonies and Great Britain. -
Publishing of Common Sense
Thomas Paine published his pamphlet "Common Sense," setting forth his arguments in favor of American independence. Pamphlets were an important medium for the spread of ideas in the 16th through 19th centuries. -
Dorchester Heights
Troops from the Continental Army occupied Dorchester Heights and mounted powerful cannons there. British forces occupying the city, considered contesting this act, as the cannon threatened the town and the military ships in the harbor. Soon later the British soldiers fled the city. -
Declaration of Independence
A statement adopted by the Continental Congress, which announced that the thirteen American colonies now looked at themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. -
Trenton
It started during the Revolutionary War, after General George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River north of Trenton, New Jersey. -
Princeton
A battle in which General George Washington's revolutionary forces defeated British forces near Princeton, New Jersey. -
Fort Ticonderoga
Fort Ticonderoga served as a key point of access to both Canada and the Hudson River Valley during the French and Indian War. Both the French and the Indian's fought over that channel because it was a good trading route, so basically they fought over it because of the money that was involved. -
Saratoga
Saratoga was a battle during the Revolutioary Warn, the Red Coats or British under Burgoyne were defeated by the Continental Army. -
Valley Forge
Valley Forge was the site of the military camp of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. Close to Pennsylvania. -
Yorktown
The fight was a forceful victory by a combined army of the Continental troops and French Army troops over the British. -
Treaty of Paris 1783
This treaty ended the Revolutionary War between the British and the Continental Army and its allies.
