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Proclamation of 1763
The colonist wanted to move westward, but the british would allow it. In order to keep the colonist from moving westward, the british create a law. -
Stamp Act of 1765
The British increased taxes on foreign sugar and molasses imported from the west indies -
The Quartering Act
This act basically demanded that any soldier British soldier that didn't have a place to stay/sleep was allowed to enter any colonists home and live there for as long as he pleased. -
Townshend Taxes
This enforced the colonist to pay taxes on itesm such as paper, red and white lead, glass, paints and teas shipped from England -
The Boston Tea Party
a group of colonist dressed up as Mohawk Indians and boarded onto the ship when know one was there, they threw 342 chest of teas into the harbor. 15,000 pounds of tea -
The First Continental Congress
A convention of delegates from twelve colonies that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. It was called in response to the passage of the Intolerable Acts by the British Parliament. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
They were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in the mainland of British North America. -
Second Continental Congress
The Congress met in the State House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.The second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. -
The 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 challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy. -
The Decloration of Independence
It is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress, which announced that the 13 American colonies regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire -
Battles of Saratoga
It was a crucial victory for the Patriots during the American Revolution and is considered the turning point of the Revolutionary War. -
Battle at Yorktown
General George Washington, with allied American and French forces, besieged General Charles Lord Cornwallis’s British army. On October 19, Cornwallis surrendered, effectively ending the war and ensuring independence. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris, signed on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain on one side and the United States of America and its allies on the other.
