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Stamp Act
this act required colonists to pay for an official stamp or seal when they bought paper items. a law passed by parliment that rasied tax money by requiring colonist to pay for an offical stamp whenever they bought paper items -
Townshend Act
in june 1767 parliment passed the townshend acts.these acts acts placed dutties on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. -
Boston Massacre
an incident in which british soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists killing five people ,called the shooting the boston massacre -
Tea Act
a law passed by parliment allowing the british east indian company to sell its low cost tea directly to the colonises undermining colonial tea mercheants led to bastons tea party -
The Boston Tea Party
a protest against the tea act in which a group of coloists boarded british ships and dumped more than 340 cheasts of tea in to baston harbor -
The Intolrable Act
1.) boston harbor was closed
2.) massachusets charter was cancled
3.) officals accused for crimes were sent to britain for trial -
First Continental Congress
a meeting of colonial delegates in philidelphia to decide hot to respond to the cloasing of boston habor increasing taxes and abuse of athority by the british government -
Second Continental Congress
a meeting of colonist delegates in philidelphia to decide how to react to fighting in lexingtonand concord from 12 colonies met in philadelphia -
Battle of Bunker Hill
a revolutionarty war battle in boston that demonstrated that the colonists could fight well against the british army proved the colonists could take on the british -
The Signing Of The Declaration Of Indendence
The Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. Instead they formed a union that would become a new nation—the United States of America -
The Battle of Trenton
a revolutionary was battle in new jersey in which patriot forces captured more than 900 hessian troops -
The Battle of Saratoga
revolutionary war battle in new york that resulted in a major deafeat of brtiish troops marked the patriots greatest victory up to that point of the war -
Valley Forge
in one winter 2,000 soliders died of disease and malnutrition -
Battle of Yorktown
the last major battle of the revolutionary war site of british general charels cornwallis surrendered to the patriots in virginia -
Treaty of Paris of 1783
a peace agreement that offficaially ended the revolutionary war and eltablished british recongition of the independent of the united states -
Constitutional Convention
was held in may 1787 in philadelphias independence hall to improve the articles of confederation -
George Washington Became First President
On April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office as the first President of the United States
