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proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 (also known as the royal proclamation) was issued by king george the III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, in which it forbade settlers from settling past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. the purpose of the Royal Proclamation was to organize Great Britain's new North American empire and to stabilize relations with Native North Americans through regulation of -
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Treaty of Paris in 1763
The Treaty of Paris, also known as the Peace of Paris and the Treaty of 1763, was signed on 10 February 1763 by the kingdoms of Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal in agreement, after Britain's victory over France and Spain during the Seven Years' War. -
quartiering act
The Quartering Act is a name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the 18th century. Parliament forced them to order the local government of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations. It also required citizens to provide food for any British soldiers in the area -
stamp act
The stamp act of 1765 imposed a direct act -
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 -
townshend acts
The Townshend Acts were a searies of acts imposed at the beginning of 1767. The acts are named after Charles Townshend. historians have altered thoughs on which laws were under the act but five are mentioned and they are: the Revenue Act of 1767, the Indemnity Act, the Commissioners of Customs Act, the Vice Admiralty Court Act, and the New York Restraining Act -
Paul Revere
Paul Revere was an American silversmith, early industrialist, and a patriot in the American Revolution. He is most famous for alerting the colonists of the british arrival -
Benedict Arnold
was a general during the American Revolutionary War who originally fought for the American Continental Army but Benedict Arnold was a great general. While a general on the American side, he gained command of the fort at West Point, New York, and planned to surrender it to the British forces. -
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 -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party (which was originally planned to be just destroying crates of tea) was a nonviolent political protest by a group of people disguesed as Indians on December 16, 1773. -
intolerable acts
The Intolerable Acts (Also know as the 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. -
lexington and concord
The battle of Lexington and Concord was the first military engagment of the revolutionary war. They were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy and many more. -
1st continental congress
The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from twelve colonies excluding Georgia that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
John Adams
John Adams helped negotiate the Paris Peace Treaty and in 1775, he nominated George Washington to be commander-in-chief -
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. -
Martha Curtis Wshington
Martha Dandridge Custis Washington was the wife of George Washington, the first president of the United States. Although the title was not coined until after her death, Martha Washington is considered to be the first First Lady of the United States. -
dec. of independence
the eclaration of Independence adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. It made it so the U.S was no longer part of the Briotish Empire -
Loyalists
Loyalists were American colonists who remained loyal to the Kingdom of Great Britain -
Patriots
were those colonists of the British Thirteen United Colonies that violently rebelled against British control during the American Revolution -
Thomas Paine
he published the greatly aclaimed book common sense in 1776 -
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. He was a spokesman for democracy -
Sam Adams
Sam adams was a founding father and he helped draft the Declaration of Independence. in 1772 Adams and his colleagues createda committee which linked like-minded Patriots throughout the Thirteen Colonies. -
Battles of Saratoga
The Battles of Saratoga 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. -
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 -
Battle of Yorktown
The Battle of Yorktown was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington -
Treaty of Paris 1783
The Treaty of Paris signed on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain on one side and the United States of America and its allies on the other -
Hessian
The Hessians were 18th-century German auxiliaries contracted for service under The Crown of the British Empire
