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Line prohibiting settlement beyond the Appalachian Mountains.
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A tax on all documensts that required a stamp.
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Townshend Taxes were mass taxing on all goods at the port. The Boston Massacre was a conflict betweeen a mob of Colonists and eight British soldiers where five colonists were killed.
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Colonists boarded ships dressed as Mohawk Indians and dumped 342 cases of tea into the harbor.
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A ban on town meeting and the closing of the Harbor until all tea dumped into it was paid for, as a punishment for the Boston Tea Party.
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A group of 55 delegates that came together to discuss their grievances against the British government.
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military conflicts between the British army and the American army. The British tried to seize a stash of American weapons. The British army was met by a small amount of American Soldiers. However it ended in a Colonial American victory and started the Revolutionary War.
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A meeting of Colonial American delegates that created the Continental Army and named George Washington as the Commanding General.
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Considered the bloodiest battle of the Revolutionary War. Over 1000 British and around 400 Colonists were killed or wounded befor the British took the hill giving them the victory but at a high cost.
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The first document written that asked for independence from Britain. It was written so that the common person could read it.
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A document that declared that the 13 colonies considered themselves an independent state.
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The first battle was at Freemans farm regarded as the turning point in the Colonists favor i the war.
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The second battle was at Bemis Heights. It was a considered a turning point in the Colonists favor during the war
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A decisive battle in which the French Navy blocked off British supplies and reinforcements during the seige of Yorktown.
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A treaty that officially ended the War between Britain and America.
