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Martha Custis Washington
Martha Custis Washington was the wife of George Washington. She was considered to be the first lady of the United states. During her lifetime she was know as "Lady Washington". Martha spent many days at the Revolutionary War winter encampments visiting with the common soldiers in their huts. She also traveled a lot with her husband throughout the War. -
Loyalists
The loyalists were American colonists who were still loyal to the Kingdom of Great Britain during the Revolutioanary War. They were against the patriots. Once the Revolutionary war was over 20% of them fled to parts under the British Empire. -
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Revolutionary War timeline
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Treaty of Paris
Ending the seven years war, France ceded land all mainland North America Territories. Britain gained all territoy east of the Mississippi river. Spain kept their land except traded East and West Florida for Cuba -
Proclamation of 1763
George III prohibited all settlement west of the Appalachian mountains without guarantees of security from local Native American nations. This action offended the thirteen colonies ability to govern land to their left. -
Stamp Act
Parliament required all legal documents, newspapers and pamphlets to use watermarked, or 'stamped' paper on which a new tax was made. -
Quartering Act
Parliament enacted them to order local governments of the Parliment required american colonies to provide the British soldiers with anythig they needed. It also required citizens to provide food for any British soldiers in the area. -
Townshed Act
The purpose of the Townshend Acts was to raise revenue in the colonies to pay the salaries of governors and judges so that they would be independent of colonial rule, to punish the province of New York for failing to succeed with the 1765 Quartering Act, and to establish the precedent that the British Parliament had the right to tax the colonies -
Boston Massacre
Citzens didn't like the presence of Brithish colonial policy so they got angry and started harrassing a group of soldiers guarding the customs house. A soldier discharged his musket. -
Boston Tea Party
Angered by the Tea Acts, American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians dumped 9,000 british pounds worth of East India Company tea into the Boston harbour. -
Sons of Liberty
The Sons of Liberty were 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 action against the abuses of the British government. They are best known for the Boston Tea Party in 1773 in reaction to the Tea Act, which led to the Intolerable Acts -
Continental Congress
The Congress met from 1774 to 1789 in three periods of time. The first time they met, the topic was made over issues of the Intolerable Acts penalizing Massachusetts. Though at first divided on independence and a break from Crown rule, the new Congress in July 1776 gave a unanimous vote for independence, issued the Declaration of Independence as a new nation, the United States of America. It established a Continental Army. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
These were the first battles made in the Revolutionary war by British troops and Minutemen who were warned of attacks by Paul Revere. -
Paul Revere
Paul Revere was the one who warned the colonists that the 'Red Coats' were coming to attack for battle. Without him, the battles of Lexington and Concord would have been unexpected to the colonists. -
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. He had great strategy in many, many battles he served in the Revolutionary War. He made a big impact on many of the battles won towards independence. -
Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine was the author of two highly influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution. One was called 'Common Sense' and 'The American Crisis'. He wrote many other books encouraging freethinking, -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is a statement that was made by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, made themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. Instead they formed a union that would become a new nation and was called the united states of America. -
Patriots
The patriots were those of the British Thirteen Colonies who rebelled against Great Britain to declare the United States of America an independent nation. -
Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams was one of the Founding Fathers of the United states who was said to have lead the colonists to Independence. He had attended the Continental Congress steering them to issue the Declatation of Independence. -
Hessians
The Hessians were 18th-century German auxiliaries used for service under The Crown of the British Empire. About 30,000 German soldiers served in the Thirteen Colonies during the American Revolutionary War. About half of them came from the Hesse origin. They received wages, but the prince received most of the funds; Britain found it easier to borrow money to pay for their service than to recruit its own soldiers. -
Batttle 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. Two battles were fought eighteen days apart nine miles away south of Saratoga New York. -
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. He served in many battles but ended his time in the battle of saratoga. -
Battle of Yorktown
The battle of Yorktown was a battle with victory from the Continental troops. The troops were led by General George Washington. This battle was the last major land battle having the Revoutionary War come closer to an end. -
Lord Cornwallis
Lord Corwallis was a Britsih Army Officer and a colonial administrator. In Britain and the United Kingdom, he is best known as the leading british general in the Revolutionary War. He is the one who surrendered to the colonists at the Battle of Yorktown ending the war. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris ended the Revolutionary way between Great Britain and the United states of America. -
John Adams
John Adams was the second President of the United States having served earlier as the first vice president of the United States. Along with Sam Adams (his cousin) he had a big part in pursuading Congress to declare independence. -
Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams was the wife of John Adams, and the mother of John Quincy Adams, the sixth President. She is now considered the Second Lady of the United States. Although her life is the most documented of the first ladys. She is known for her letters she wrote to her husband in Philadelphia while he was in the Continental Congress. -
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. In the beginning of the American Revolution he served in the Continental Congress. WIthout him, we would not be where we are now independence wise because of him being the author of the Dec. of Independence.