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Marth Curtis Washington
Martha Washington (1731-1802) was an American first lady (1789–97) and the wife of George Washington, first president of the United States and commander in chief of the colonial armies during the American Revolution.She had set many standards and customs for the proper behavior and treatment of a U.S. president's wife. However many people did not know that Martha Washington had four children with her first husband Daniel Custis, but none with her second husband, George Washington. -
treaty of paris
In 1763 the treaty of paris brought the end of the french and Indian war " the seven years of war", resulting in peace between great britian, spain, and france. The treaty of paris was signed feb.10,1763 by the representitives of great britain, spain and also france. -
Proclamation
At the end of the french and indian war in1763 was acause for great celebration in the colonies, for it removed several ominous barries and opened up a host of new opportunities for the colonists. The proclamation also established or defined four new colonies,three of them on the continent proper. -
Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams was the wife of President John Adams and the mother of John Quincy Adams, who became the sixth president of the United States. Abigail Adams remained a supportive spouse and confidante after her husband became the president in 1797.Abigail married John adams on oct.25,1764,and died October 28, 1818. -
stamp act
The memebers of this congress,sincerly devoted, with the warmest sentiments of affection and duty to his majesty"s and government,inviolably attached to the present happy establishment of the protestant seccesion. -
sam adams
sam adams was a political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.And emerged as an important public figure in Boston soon after the British Empire's victory in the Seven Years' War (1756–1763).He was a strong opponent of British taxation, Adams helped organize resistance in Boston to Britain's Stamp Act of 1765. He also played a vital role in organizing the Boston Tea Party—an act of opposition to the Tea Act of 1773. -
The Quartering Act
an act to ammend and remender more effectual, in his meajesties dominions in america, an act passesd in this present session of parliament, intituled, an act for punishing munity and desertion, and for the better payment of the army and their quarters. -
The Townshend Revenue Act
Their were taxes on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper, and tea were applied with the design of raising 40,000 a year for the administration of the colonies. The result was the resuration of colonial hostilities created by the stamp act. -
The Boston Massacre
The boston massacre was a street fight that occured on march 5, 1770, beetween a patriot mob, troughing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of brittish soldiers. Several colonist were killed and this lead to a campaign by speech-writters to rouse the ire of the citizenry. -
boston tea party
The partial repeal of the Townshend Acts did not bring the same reaction in the American colonies as the repeal of the Stamp Act. Many things had already happend like the crown attempted to tax the colonies on sevaral ocassions, but two taxes were still being collected like sugar and tea. The Gaspee was burned by colonists angry about taxes and British harassment of their ships. -
sons of liberty
I the year 1773, a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships moored in Boston Harbor and dump 342 chests of tea into the water.Now known as the "Boston Tea Party," the midnight raid was a protest of the Tea Act of 1773, a bill enacted by the British parliament to save the faltering British East India Company by greatly lowering its tea tax and granting it a virtual monopoly on the American tea trade. -
Boston Port Act, one of the "Intolerable Acts
the boston port act was discontinued, and such manner, and form or such time as are therein mentioned, the landing and discharching, lading or shipping, of goods, wares, and merchandice, at the town, and within the harvard, of boston, int he province of massachusets bay, in north america. -
1st Continental Congress
In response to the British Parliament's enactment of the Coercive Acts in the American colonies, the first session of the Continental Congress convenes at Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia.fifty-six delagates accepted exept georga. And Patrick Henry, George Washington, John Adams, and John Jay were among the delegates. -
Lexington and Concord
lexngton and Concord was during the early hours of April 19, 1775, he would send out regiments of brittish soldiers quareted in boston. Their destinations were lexington, where they would capture colonial leaders sam adams and john handcock, then concord, where they would seize gunpowder. -
paul revere
paul revere had joined the Freemasons and befrended other activists such as james otis and dr. Joseph Warren.. In addition he worked as a courier for the boston commity of Correspondence and the Massachusetts Committee of safety. He and others dressed as indians and dumped tea into the boston harbor with is now known as the boston tea party. -
Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine was an influential 18th-century writer of essays and pamphlets.Paine arrived in Philadelphia on November 30, 1774, taking up his first regular employment—helping to edit the Pennsylvania Magazine—in January 1775. He had expanded this idea in a 50-page pamphlet called "Common Sense," which was printed on January 10, 1776. Also Worded in a way that forces the reader to make an immediate choice, "Common Sense" presented the American colonists, who were generally still undecided. -
Declaration of Independence
The contonental congress adopted the declaration of independence on jul. 4,1776. It was It was engrossed on parchment and on August 2, 1776, delegates began signing it. -
Hessians
Falsely confident that the British would not attack New York's Manhattan Island, General George Washington poured additional reinforcements into the lines around Brooklyn Heights, then considered part of rural Long Island, on this day in 1776 Washington also ordered the dispersal of certain documents among the Hessians, which he wrote The papers designed for the foreign (Hessian) Troops, have been put into several Channels, in order that they may be conveyed to them. -
the battle of saragota
the battle of saragota(sep.19-oct.7,1777)conclusively decided the fate of British General John Burgoyne's army in the american war of independence and are generally regarded as a turning point in the war.Also two battles were fought eighteen days appart and on the same ground, and 9 miles south of saragota,new york. -
Loyalists
Loyalists were American colonists who remained loyal to the Kingdom of Great Britain (and the British monarchy) during the American Revolutionary War.They were opposed by the Patriots, those who supported the revolution. When their cause was defeated, about 20% of the Loyalists fled to other parts of the British Empire, in Britain or elsewhere in British North America. A Patriot militia force of 340 led by Colonel Andrew Pickens of South Carolina with Colonel John Dooly and other people. -
Benedict arnold
Benedict Arnold was an American Revolutionary War general best known for his defection from the Continental Army to the British side of the conflict in 1780.In 1780, during the American Revolution, General Benedict Arnold meets with British Major John Andre to discuss handing over West Point to the British, in return for the promise of a large sum of money and a high position in the British army. also known as a "traitor". He also had 3 sons with Margaret Mansfield the wife of benedict Arnol. -
Patriots
In the year 1781, Patriot forces led by Colonel William Harden and Brigadier General Francis Marion,lure British commander Major Thomas Fraser and his 450 soldiers into an ambush at Parker's Ferry, 30 miles northwest of Charleston, South Carolina. Meanwhile, 3,000 soldiers set sail with the French fleet on their way to aid the Patriot cause.Also Fraser's command consisted of 450 Loyalists who had begun an uprising in the region. -
the battle of yorktown
on september 28, 1781, genaral George Washington commanded 17,000 french and Continental troops, wich began the siege known as the battle of yourktown.Which was aganist british general Charles Cornwallis and 9,000 brittish troops in yorktown,virginia wich was also the most important battle of the revolutionary war. -
Lord Cornwallis
In the year 1781, British General Charles Cornwallis formally surrenders 8,000 British soldiers and seamen to a French and American force at Yorktown, Virginia, bringing the American Revolution to a close. Cornwallis had driven general George Washington's Patriot forces out of New Jersey in 1776, and led his Recoats in victory over General Horatio Gates and the Patriots at Camden, South Carolina, in 1780. -
treaty of paris
The treaty of paris was signed on september 3 ,1783, between the america colonies and great britian, end ended the american revolution and formally reconized the united states as an independent nation. The treaty is named for the city in which it was negotiated and signed. The last page bears the signatures of David Hartley, who represented Great Britain, and the three American negotiators, who had also signed their name. -
george washington
George washington was the firts president of the united sates of america (1789–1797), the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.In the year 1789, 69 members of Congress cast their ballots to elect George Washington the first president of the United States. -
John adams
John Adams was born on October 30, 1735, in Quincy, Massachusetts. In 1770, Adams agreed to represent the British soldiers on trial for killing five civilians in what became known as the Boston Massacre. That same year he was elected to the Massachusetts Assembly and was one of five to represent the colony at the First Continental Congress, in 1774.Congress created the Continental Army in 1775. The United States presidential election of 1792 was the 2nd quadrennial presidential election. -
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was fluent in five languages and able to read two others. He wrote, over the course of his life, over sixteen thousand letters. He was acquainted with nearly every influential person in America, and a great many in Europe as well. At sixteen years old, he then continued his education in the Law under George Wythe, the first professor of law in America (who later would sign Jefferson's Declaration in 1776). He later died on jul.4,1826.
