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Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris was signed 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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Loyalists
Loyalists were American colonists who remained loyal to the Kingdom of Great Britain (and the British monarchy) during the American Revolutionary War. -
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Patriots
Patriots were the Rebels, who violently rebelled against British control during the American Revolution and in July 1776 declared the United States of America an independent nation. -
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Hessians
The Hessians were about 30,000 German soldiers served in the Thirteen Colonies during the American Revolutionary War -
Proclamation of 1763
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 forbade settlers from settling past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
The Stamp Act
The Stamp Act 1765 is where the British Parliament imposed a direct tax on the colonies of British America on raw materials through revenue stamps. -
The Quartering Act
The Quartering Act is where Parliament forced American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations -
The Townshend Act
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. -
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre, 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 was a nonviolent political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Disguised as Indians, boycotted of tea carrying a tax the Americans had not authorized. -
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. -
Intolerable Acts
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. -
1st Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from twelve colonies exepcet Gorgia that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia. It was called in response to the passage of the Intolerable Acts -
Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams was an American statesman and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. -
John Adams
John Adams was an American Founding Father, Adams was a statesman, diplomat, and a leading advocate of American independence from Great Britain. -
Paul Revere's Night Ride
Paul Revere was an American silversmith and a patriot in the American Revolution. He is famous for alerting the Colonial militia to the approach of British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord. -
Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. They were fought in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington and Concord. -
Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine was an English-American political theorist and revolutionary. As the author of Common Sense at the start of the American Revolution, he inspired the Patriots in 1776 to declare independence from Britain. -
Common Sense
Common Sense 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. -
Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is a document that says thirteen American colonies regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. -
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the third President of the United States (1801–1809). -
Battle of Saratoga
In the Battles of Saratoga the colonies beat British General John Burgoyne's army which was the turning point in the war. -
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. And tried to hand over west point. -
Battle of Yorktown
Battle of Yorktown, was a decisive victory by colonial troops led by George Washington and French troops led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by British General Cornwallis. -
Lord Cornwallis
Charles Cornwallis, was a British Army officer and colonial administrator. In the United States he was one of the leading British generals in the American War of Independence. He is known for his surrender at the Siege of Yorktown. -
George Washington
George Washington the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain on one side and the United States of America and its allies on the other. -
Martha Washington
Martha Dandridge Custis Washington was the wife of George Washington and she is considered to be the first First Lady of the United States. -
Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams was the wife of John Adams and the mother of John Quincy Adams. She is now designated the second First Lady.