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signing of the treaty of Paris
ending of the 7 year's war -
proclamation of 1763
When George the III passed trade to the Applachain Mountain's without promise of safe passage -
sugar act
the first attempt to finance the defense of the colonies by the British goverment -
Stamp Act
seeking to defray some of the costs of garrisoning the colonies -
Quartering act
Colonial asembles required to pay for supplies to British garrisons -
Virinian Resolutin
the Viriginian assembley refused to comply with the Stamp Act -
Stamp Act Congress
Representives from 9 of the 13 Colonies declare the Stamp Act unconstutional -
Declaratory Act
Parliament finalises the repel of the Stamp Act, but gives it the right to tax Colonies -
townshend revenue act
Dutieson tea,glass,lead,paper and paint -
British troops arrive in Boston
in response to political unrest -
Boston Massacre
angered by the presense of troops and Britian's colonial -
Burning of the Gaspee
The revenue schooner Gaspee ran around near Providence Rhode Island -
Repeal of the Townshend Act
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Tea Act
A effort to support the ailing East India Company -
tea act
Parlimanet exempted its tea from import duties -
Publication of Thomas Hutchinson letters
a letter of great restrraint of natural liberty -
Boston Tea Party
Mohawk indians dumped the east indian tea company in harbor -
intolerable acts
four measures which stripped Massachutes of self goverment -
Continental Congres
Colonial delegates meet to organise opposition to the Intolerable Acts. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
First engagements of the Revolutionary War between British troops and the Minutemen, -
Continental Congress appoints George Washington commander-in-chief of Continental Army
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Battle of Bunker Hill
The first major battle of the War of Independence. Sir William Howe dislodged William Prescott's forces overlooking Boston at a cost of 1054 British casualties to the Americans' 367. -
Olive-Brach Petition
Congress endorses a proposal asking for recognition of American rights, the ending of the Intolerable Acts in exchange for a cease fire -
Thomas Paine's Common Sense published anonymously in Philadelphia
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France provides covert aid to the Americans
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Continental Congress issues the Declaration of Independence
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Battles of Long Island and White Plains
British forces occupy New York after American defeats. -
Battles of Long Island and White Plains
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Invasion of Canada by Benedict Arnold
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Battle of Trenton, New Jersey,
providing a boast to American morale. -
Battle of Princeton, New Jersey.
General Washington broke camp at Trenton to avoid a British advance, attacking the British rearguard and train near Princeton and then withdrawing to Morristown. -
British surrender of 5,700 troops at 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. -
France recognises US Independence.
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US Defeat at battle of Camden
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Ratification of the Articles of Confederation
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Battle of the Capes, denying British reinforcements or evacuation.
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Surrender of British forces under Cornwallis at Yorktown.
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British Government authorises peace negotiations.
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Treaty of Paris, formally ending the Revolutionary War
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Constitutional Convention
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Shays’s Rebellion
Massachusetts rebellion led by the Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Shays against high taxes -
Adoption of the American Constitution