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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.
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The purpose of the proclamation was to organize Great Britain's new North American empire and to stabilize relations with Native North Americans through regulation of trade, settlement, and land purchases on the western frontier.
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The stamp act whas when the British made everybody have a stamp if they wanted something out of the country.
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The Quartering Act is a name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the 18th century. Parliament enacted them to order local governments 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.
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James was an African-American abolitionist and a rich businessman. He was the owner of a sail loft and spent almost all of his life in or near the Philadelphia waterfront around what is now called Penn's Landing.
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The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed beginning in 1767 by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. The acts are named after Charles Townshend
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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.
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Samual Adams was one of the founding fathers of the United States of America. He was also a political philosopher. Adams was a leader the American Revolution.
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The Boston Tea Party was a nonviolent political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773. 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.
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The Sons of The Liberty was an organization of American patriots that organized in the 13 colonies. The group was formed to protect the rights of the colonists. They were most known for the Boston tea party
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The Intolerable 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. The acts stripped Massachusetts of self-government and historic rights, triggering outrage and resistance in the Thirteen Colonies.
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Loyalists were American colonists who remained loyal to the Kingdom of Great Britain during the American Revolutionary War. At the time they were often called Tories, Royalists, or King's Men. They were opposed by the Patriots, those who supported the revolution.
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The Patriots were people who rebeled agianst the British in 1774. Some of these people were Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Geoge Mason, etc.
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Abigail Adams was John Adams wife. She also was a leader in a womens rights petiton.
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The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from twelve colonies that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution.
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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.
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Paul Revere, Born on December 21st and Died on May tenth 1818. He was an americasn silversmith who became famous for his midnight ride when he alerted the townspeople that the British were coming.
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The Hessians were 18th century German soldiers that worked for the British in the Revolutionry War.
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.They were fought on April 19, 1775, The battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in the mainland of British North America.
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George Washington was the first president of the United States and one of the founding fathers. He was also the commander in cheif in the Revolutionary War.
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Benidict Arnold was a general during for the American Continental army, but then defected to the British army.
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Thomas Paine was the writer of the book Common Sense. He was the person who inspired the Patriots to declare independence from Britian in 1776
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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.
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Thomas Jefferson was Americas third president and one of the founding fathers. He was also wrote the decloration of independince. He was a spokesman for democracy and the rights of man with worldwide influence.
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John Adams was te second president of the United States he was also a member of the First Continental Congress. He was in ofice from 1797 to 1801.
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The Battles of Saratoga was on September 19th 1777. It conclusively decided the fate of General John Burgoyne's army in the American War of Independence. Two battles were fought eighteen days apart on the same ground south of Saratoga.
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The Battle of Yorktown took place on October 19, 1781. It was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French Army troops led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by British lord and Lieutenant General Lord Cornwallis.
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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.
