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Hessians
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Sam Adams
Sam Adams was an American statesman, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. -
Martha Custis Washington
Martha Custis Washington was the wife of George Washington, the first president of the United States. Martha Washington is considered to be the first First Lady of the United States. During her lifetime she was known as "Lady Washington." -
George Washington
George Washington was the first President of the United States, the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. -
Paul Revere
He was an American silversmith, early industrialist, and a patriot in the American Revolution. He is most famous for alerting the Colonial militiary to the approach of British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord, -
John Adams
John Adams was elected the second president of the United States after he served as the first vice president of the United States. He was also an American Founding Father. -
Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine was an English-American political activist, author, political theorist and revolutionary. -
Lord Cornwallis
Lord Cornwallis was a British Army officer and colonial administrator. In the United States and the United Kingdom, he is best remembered as one of the leading British generals in the American War of Independence. -
Benedict Arnold
Benedict Arnold was a general during the American Revolutionary War who originally fought for the American Continental Army but defected to the British Army. -
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, and the third President of the United States. -
Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams was the wife of John Adams, the first Vice President, and second President, of the United States, and the mother of John Quincy Adams, the sixth President. -
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Treaty of Paris
Signed by the kingdoms of Great Britain, France Spain, and Portugal, this ended the French and Indian war by stating that all 13 colonies could be free and each one their own state. This made it so all 13 colonies could have their own government and laws. -
Proclamation of 1763
This Proclamation Signed by King George III prohibits any English settlements past the West of the Appalachian mountains. This put a stop to conflicts that had arisen between the Native Americans and the colonists due to the French and Indian 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 take to the streets against the abuses of the British government. -
Quartering Act
The quartering act was set to protect the soldiers, to make sure they had proper housing and food. This disrupted the Bill of Rights and made perople mad that they had to pay for everything the soldiers did. -
Stamp Act
The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. This made the Virginia House of Burgesses adopt Patrick Henry's Stamp Act. -
Townshend Acts
The series of four acts imposed duties on imports of lead, paint, glass, paper, and tea. This later made taxes on all of those things and made them very expensive to buy unless you had a lot of money. -
Boston Massacre
A mob of people went in front of the Customs Office in Boston Massachusetts and started to throw stuff and give insults at the soldiers. As a result to this so-called harassment the soldiers fired on the crowd. The result was 3 dead and 2 deeply injured. There was also a trial but the soldiers were found not guilty. -
Boston Tea Party
This was a nonviolent political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston. Disguised as Indians, the demonstrators destroyed the entire supply of tea sent by the East India Company in defiance of the American boycott of tea carrying a tax the Americans had not authorized. This caused The British government to respond harshly and the episode escalated into the American Revolution. -
Intolerable Acts
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1st Continental Congress
A series of british laws that the american colonies strongly disagreed with. This lead to the acts angering the colonists even more so they decided to form the First Continental Congress, Which was the first step to independence. -
Common Sense
This is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain in the summer of 1776. This caused the 13 colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain in the summer of 1776. -
Lexington and Concord
The first shots starting the revolution were fired at Lexington. On April 19, 1775, British General Thomas Gage sent 700 soldiers to destroy guns and ammunition the colonists had stored in the town of Concord, just outside of Boston. They also planned to arrest Samuel Adams and John Hancock, two of the key leaders of the patriot movement. This made the British and Americans start to fire at eachothers troops. -
Loyalists
Loyalists were American colonists who remained loyal to the Kingdom of Great Britain during the American Revolutionary War. -
Patriots
Patriots were colonists of the British Thirteen United Colonies that violently rebelled against British control during the American Revolution and in July 1776 declared the United States of America an independent nation. -
Declaration of Independance
This announced that the thirteen American colonies, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.This formed the U.S.A completely. -
Battle of Saratog
The Battle of Saratoga, was a crucial victory for the Patriots during the American Revolution. The Battle was the impetus for France to enter the war against Britain, re-invigorating Washington’s Continental Army and providing much needed supplies and support. This caused a major turning point in 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 against British General Lord Charles Cornwallis and a contingent of 9,000 British troops at Yorktown, Virginia. This was the most important battle of the Revolutionary War. This ended fighting in the American colonies. -
Treaty of Paris
This ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain on one side and the United States of America and its allies on the other. This caused the American revolutionary War to end and peace to settle throughout America.
