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Line prohibiting settlement beyond the Appalachian Mountains - King George III
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Made it so about 50 different trade items required the use of a stamped paper or the affixing of stamps in order to pay for maintaining the troops in the colonies
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Mass tax for 50 different items on the colonists leads to confrontation between mobs and soldiers while they were on duty, 5 colonists killed, 6 injured
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Colonists went on to the ship dressed as Mohawk indians and dumped 342 tea chests into the Boston Harbor as a way of protesting the taxes
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Coercive acts with a different name, which punish colonies. The acts stripped Massachusetts of self-government and historic rights
Series of acts to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party
1: Boston Port Bill, 2: Administration of Justica Act, 3: Massachusetts Government Act, 4: Quartering Act, 5: Quebec Act -
55 delegates from 12 colonies joined together in Carpenter's Hall in order to address grievances in secret against the colonists had against Britain
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British trying to seize a secret stash of weapons at Concord
First outbreak of military fighting between colonists and British soldiers at Lexington. Marks the beginning of the War. -
Convention of delegates from the 13 colonies thatmanaged colonial war effort, Created the continental army, George Washington was named Commanding General
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1000 British casualties, 400 colonists casualties
Took the British 3 waves to finally take the hill
Bloodiest of all the battles -
Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy
Presented the American colonists with an argument for freedom from British rule -
Statement adopted by the Continental Congress that announced that the 13 American colonies regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.
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Americans win
Turning point of Revolutionary War
British and Hessian troops surrender after General John Burgoyne had lost 86 percent of his expeditionary force -
American Contiental Army and Frech troops defeat British troops, making it the last major battle of the Revolutionary War
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Treaty that ended the American Revolutionary War
Signed in Paris France
