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Proclamtion of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 was a response to colonists trying to move west of the Appalachian Mountains. This angered the colonists, and most of them disregarded it.
Since they disregarded this the military was sent to protect the boreder which colonists were trying to pass. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act Taxed imported sugar, wine, molasses, and coffee; allowed British officers to try offenders; stopped the colonies from exporting lumber and iron.
The reports of smuggler acts decreased. The British enforced this act. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act required colonists to pay a direct tax on all paper. This led to riots in cities and forced collectors to resign. The North Carolinians highly oppossed this, while the British repealed the Stamp Act. -
Townshend Act
The Townshend Act taxed the import of paper, lead, glass and tea. This led to the colonists stop importing British goods, and began to protest.
North Carolinian's sent a letter to the King stating they believed that this act was illegal.
British taxes on tea was still retained. -
Boston Massacre
This was a street fight between a few patriots and a good amount of colonists. Several colonists were killed when this happened.
In result there was a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry. -
Paul Revere
Paul Revere was an American silversmith, engraver, early industrialist, and a Patriot in the American Revolution. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act flooded the market with British tea that was cheaper than American tea. The colonists began to protests because they felt there was a lot of favoritism involved in this.
North Carolinas resolution to this was to boycott ALL British tea.
As a result to this, the British closed the port to Boston and blocked trade. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the sons of Liberty.
This was a main event that lead to the American Revolution.
This was basically the day that they decided to destroy whatever tea they could get their hands on. -
Intolerable Act
The Intolerable Act closed Boston Ports to all trade except for England.
The colonists began a boycott on all British goods.
North Carolina decided to aviod all trade with Britain, and began their boycott.
This was the whole British plan, it backfired. -
Edenton Tea Party
The Edenton Tea party was one of the first organized political events lead by women in history.
This was their response to the Tea Act of 1773. These women whole heartedely supported "Taxation Without Representation". -
Battle at Lexington and Concord
Theses battles 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 thirteen of its colonies on the mainland of British America -
The Mecklenburg Resolves
The Mecklenburg Resolves, or Charlotte Town Resolves, was a list of statements adopted at Charlotte, in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina on May 31, 1775; drafted in the month following the fighting at Lexington and Concord -
Battle Of Ticonderoga
Battle of Ticonderoga (1775) or Capture of Fort Ticonderoga, a surprise capture of the fort by Americans. Battle of Ticonderoga (1777), a British army approach that forced the Continental Army to withdraw. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
The Battle of Bunker Hill was a battle fought on June 17, 1775, during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War. -
Declaration of 1776
The Declaration of Independence is defined as the formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain. An example of the Declaration of Independence was the document adopted at the Second Continental Congress on July 4th, 1776 -
Halifix Resolves
The Halifax Resolves is the name later given to a resolution adopted by the Fourth Provincial Congress of the Province of North Carolina on April 12, 1776. The resolution was a forerunner of the United States Declaration of Independence. -
Battle of Moores Creek
The Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge was a battle of the American Revolutionary War fought near Wilmington in present-day Pender County, North Carolina on February 27, 1776. -
Winter At Valley Forge
Valley Forge definition. A valley in eastern Pennsylvania that served as quarters for the American army in one winter (1777–1778) of the Revolutionary War. George Washington, who was commanding the army, had been forced to leave Philadelphia, and his troops suffered from the cold and from lack of supplies. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare, the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
Battle of Kings Mountain
The British were completely out played so to say. The Americans had superior weapons, played their cards right, and out smarted the British, leading to their Victory. -
Continental Army
The Continental Army was formed after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War by the colonies that became the United States of America. -
Battle of Yorktown
he Siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown, the Surrender at Yorktown or the German Battle, ending on October 19, 1781 at Yorktown, Virginia, was a decisive victory -
Battle at Guilford Courthouse
The Battle of Guilford Court House was a battle fought on March 15, 1781, at a site which is now in Greensboro, the county seat of Guilford County, North Carolina, during the American Revolutionary War. -
Treaty of Paris
After the signing of the Treaty of Paris, John Adams informed Congress in a letter dated September 5, 1783, that "On Wednesday, the 3d day of this month, the American ministers met the British minister at his lodgings at the Hôtel de York, and signed, sealed, and delivered the definitive treaty of peace
