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Loyalists
The loyalists were the group of colonists that remained loyal to The Kingdom of Great Britain during the American Revolutionary war. This creatred a lot of conflict between the colonists. -
Sam Adams
Sam Adams was one of the founding fathers of America. He was a leader of the mocvement that became the Revolutionary war. -
Hessians
The hassians were 18th-century German auxiliaries contracted for service under The Crown of the British Empire. The came to help the British fight against the colonists. -
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Revolutionary War Timeline
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Treaty of Paris 1763
This was the ending of the French and Indain War. It declared terriotories for the French, the British, and the Indains in North American and parts of South and Central America. -
Proclamation of 1763
King George issued this after Great Britain aqquired French territory in NOrth America. King George III prohibited settlement west of the Appalachain mountains. -
Stamp Act of 1765
Parliament required all legal documents, newspapers and pamphlets to use watermarked, or stamped paper on which levy was placed. -
Quartering Act of 1765
Colonial assemblies required to pay for supplies to British garrisons. The New York assembly argued that it could not be forced to comply. -
Boston Massacre
Angered by the presence of troops and Britain's colonial policy, a crowd began harassing a group of soldiers guarding the customs house; a soldier was knocked down by a snowball and discharged his musket, sparking a volley into the crowd which kills five civilians. -
Towshed Acts
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 create a more effective means of enforcing compliance with trade regulations. -
Boston Tea Party
Angered by the Tea Acts, American Patriots disguised as Mowhawk Indains dump £9,000 of East India Company tea into the Boston harbour. -
Sons of Liberty
The Sons of Liberty was an organization of American patriots that originated in the North American British colonies. This group was formed to protect the rights of the colonists. They are best known for their actions in the Boston Tea Party. -
Intolerable Acts
Four measures which stripped Massachusetts of self-government and judicial independence following the Boston Tea Party. The colonies responded with a general boycott of British goods. -
Continental Congress
Colonial delegates meet to organise opposition to the Intolerable Acts. -
Raul Revere
Paul Revere was sent to send a signal to the colonists that the "Red Coats" were coming, warning the colonists for battle. The battle that followed Paul Revere's midnight ride was the Battle of Lexington and Concord. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
First engagments of the Revolutionary War between Bristsh troops and the Minutemen, who had been warned by the attck of Paul Revere. -
Thomas Paine
He inspired the Patriots in 1776 to declare independence from Britain. He was a revolutinary activists from English America. -
Thomas Jefferson
He was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, and the third President of the United States. At the beginning of the American Revolution, he served in the Continental Congress, representing Virginia and then served as a wartime Governor of Virginia. -
The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. -
Patriots
The Patriots were those colonists of the British Thirteen United Colonies that violently rebelled against British control during the Revolution. July fourth was the day that the Patriots claimed independence from the British Empire. -
Battle of Saratoga
Lacking supplies, 5,700 British, German and loyalist forces under Major General John Burgoyne surrender to Major General Horatio Gates in a turning point in the Revolutionary 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. -
Lord Cornwallis
He was a war officer for America. In 1781 he surrendered his army. -
Battle of Yorktown
This was the surrender of Britsh forces under Cornwalls at the battle of Yorktown. This was the last major land battle of the Revolutionary War. -
Treaty of Paris
This was the treaty that formally ended the revolutionary war. -
George Washington
He was the first president of the United States. Hew as an importan American Generald uring the French and Indain War and also the Revolutionary War. He was a founding father of America. -
John Adams
Was the second president of the Unites states. He was also an American founding father. Adams came to prominence in the early stages of the American Revolution. Jond Adams was considered a patriot. He was alos part of the first contential congress. -
Martha Custis Washington
She was the wife of George Washington, the first president of the United States. -
Abigail Adams
She 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.