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Treaty of Paris
This event benefited the war because it was stateing the victory of Britan defeateing the French and Spain. This effected the overall war because it brought the Americans much closer to the British. Witch would later lead to fighting conpanions in upcoming wars -
proclamation of 1763
The proclamaion removed several barriers and opened up many differerent oppertunites for the colonist. One of the barriers that was created was that all colonies west of the head rivers witch flow into the Atlantic ocean were off-limites to the colonies. It was important to the overall revolutionary war because it gave the colonists defense on the outpost on the newly created border between colonies -
The Stamp Act
It was the first internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British government. The act, which imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies. This later lead on to one of the reasons the R war started -
Quartering Act
The Quartering act benefited the British because they were provided with any accomidations they needed from the Americans witch will benefite them in the war. -
Township act
Riots in England convinced him that tax relief was needed at home, but Charles Townshend hoped to reduce the national debt by imposing taxes in the colonies. This made sense to Townshend and others because the recent French and Indian War. After this war it lead to the Revalutionay war -
Boston Massacre
Depictions, reports, and propaganda about the event, that were produced by Paul Revere, spread great tension through out the colonies witch was later one of the many causes of the Revalutionary war. -
Boston Tea Party
The colonist would not stand for the taxes from the British so they dumped thier tea overboard. Because of the tea the british realized that more control was needed so they issuied the intolerable acts. -
Intolerable Acts
This event helped troops greatly in Massachusetts because the government sent them sums of money and equipment for the war. -
First Continental Congress
The first contanental congraess agreed to boycott British goods. -
Paul Revere
He was a pateriet in the Revolutionary War. He is most famous for alerting the Colonial militiary to the approaching British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord. -
Lexington and concord
It was the first battle in the revolutionary war so that was the act that really set things off to full steam. -
Patriots
They were the army against the British in the War. -
Benedict Arnold
He was a general during the American Revolutionary War who originally fought for the American Continental Army but defected to the British Army. -
George Washington
He was the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. -
Dec. of Independence
It was a writen document that declared independence from great Bitan. Many disagread so a year later the Revalutionary war. -
Sam Adams
He was one of the people that sighned the Dec. of Independence witch was one of the causes of the war. -
Thomas Paine
He inspired the Patriots in 1776 to declare independence from Britain. -
Hessains
About 30,000 German soldiers served in the Thirteen Colonies during the American Revolutionary War. -
Lord Cornwallis
He was one of the British officers and leaders in the Revolutionary war. -
Abigail Adams
She was the wife of John Adams witch surved in the war. -
John Adams
He was a leader of the Patriots witch were part of the war. -
Sons of Liberty
The Sons of Liberty was an organization of American patriots that originated in the North American British colonies. The group was formed to protect the rights of the colonists and to do something about the abuses of the British government. -
Martha Custis Washington
She was the first lady of president Washinton. President Washinton was a leader of the Americans in the war. -
Loyalists
The loyalists were an American colony that stayed in the Kingdom of Britain during the Revolutionary War. -
Thomas Jefferson
He was part sighned the Decloration of Indepence and he served in some of the war -
Battle of Saratoga
It was the turning point of the Revolutionary war that persuaded the French to support the Americans -
Battle of Yorktown
The battle of Yorktown was the battle that ended the Revolutionary war. The Frech and the colonist surrounded the British and forced them to surrender. -
Treaty of Paris 1783
It was a treaty sighned by the US and Britain to end the Revolutinary war.
