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Proclamation of 1763
The end of the French and Indian War in 1763 was a cause for great celebration in the colonies, for it removed several ominous barriers and opened up a host of new opportunities for the colonists -
Treaty of Paris
The fighting was over. Now the British and the British Americans could enjoy the fruits of victory. The terms of the Treaty of Paris were harsh to losing France -
Stamp act
English citizens in Britain were taxed at a rate that created a serious threat of revolt. -
Quartering act
The Stamp Act was sponsored by George Grenville and it took effect on November 1, 1765. It was the first direct tax imposed by Britain on its American colonies -
Town shed acts
The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed beginning in 1767 by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre, known as the Incident on King Street by the British, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five civilian men and injured six others. -
benidict arnold
Benedict Arnold (1741-1801) was an early American hero of the Revolutionary War (1775-83) who later became one of the most infamous traitors in U.S. history after he switched sides and fought for the British. -
Boston tea party
Massachusetts Patriots, protesting the monopoly on American tea importation recently granted by Parliament to the East India Company, seized 342 chests of tea in a midnight raid on three tea ships and threw them into the harbor. -
1st continental congress
Britain responded to the Boston Tea Party in 1774 by passing several laws that became known in America as the Intolerable Acts. One law closed Boston Harbor until Bostonians paid for the destroyed tea. -
Thomas paine
he communicated the ideas of the Revolution to common farmers as easily as to intellectuals, creating prose that stirred the hearts of the fledgling United States -
hessians
the term "Hessian" in the context of Washington having crossed the Delaware to attack them on Christmas night in 1776. -
Paul reveres ride
Paul revee rode through the town informing people that the british are coming. -
lexington and concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War -
john adams
Signed Declaration of Independence -
loyalists
Loyalists, in the American Revolution, colonials who adhered to the British cause. The patriots referred to them as Tories. -
Sam Adams
Signed Declaration of Independence -
Dec. of independence
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness -
intolorable act
The Intolerable (Coercive) Acts was the Patriot name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Massachusetts after the Boston Tea party. -
partiots
Another 1/3 of the colonists wanted independence. They wanted to break away from Great Britain and form a new country. Those who supported a revolution were called Patriots. -
battle of saratoga
The Battle of Saratoga, was a crucial victory for the Patriots during the American Revolution and is considered the turning point of the Revolutionary War. -
sons of liberty
They are best known for undertaking the Boston Tea Party in 1773 in reaction to the Tea Act, which led to the Intolerable Acts (an intense crackdown by the British government), and a counter-mobilization by the Patriots. -
george washingon
George washington was a general and a president during the revolutionary war -
battle of yorktown
On this day in 1781, General George Washington, commanding a force of 17,000 French and Continental troops, begins the siege known as the Battle of Yorktown against British General Lord Charles Cornwallis and a contingent of 9,000 British troops at Yorktown, Virginia, in the most important battle of the Revolutionary War.
