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The Treaty of Paris
Britain Claimed all of North America east of the Mississippi River.
France gave Spain New Orleans and Louisiana for helping them. -
Proclamation of 1763
it forbade settlers from settling past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
Stamp Act
A law passed by parliment that required all legal and commercial documents to carry an offical stamp showing a tax has been paid -
Quartering Act
Great Britain would house its soldiers in American barracks and public houses, as by the Mutiny Act of 1765, but if its soldiers outnumbered the housing available, would quarter them "in inns, livery stables, ale houses, victualing houses, and the houses of sellers of wine and houses of persons selling of rum, brandy, strong water, cider or metheglin", and if numbers required in "uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings." Colonial authorities were required to pay the cost of -
Boston Massacre
British Army soldiers killed five civilian men and injured six others. -
Tea Act
To undercut the price of tea smuggled into Britain's North American colonies. -
Boston Tea Party
The dumping of 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor by colonists -
Intolerable Acts
The Boston Port Act, the first of the acts passed in response to the Boston Tea Party, closed the port of Boston until the East India Company had been repaid for the destroyed tea and until the king was satisfied that order had been restored.The Massachusetts Government Act provoked even more outrage than the Port Act because it unilaterally altered the government of Massachusetts to bring it under control of the British government.Cannot put anymore acts in due to the word limit. -
1st Continental Congress
A conventioin of delegates from 12 colonies. It was called in response to the passage of the Intolerable Acts by British Parliment -
The Sugar Act
A law passed by parliment that placed a tax on sugar, molasses, and other products shipped to the colonies; also called for harsh punishment for smugglers. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. 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. -
2nd Ccontinental Congress
A convention of delegates from the 13 colonies in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
, the leaders of the colonial forces besieging Boston learned that the British generals were planning to send troops out from the city to occupy the unoccupied hills surrounding the city. In response to this intelligence, 1,200 colonial troops under the command of William Prescott stealthily occupied Bunker Hill and Breed's Hill, constructed an earthen redoubt on Breed's Hill, and built lightly fortified lines across most of the Charlestown Peninsula. -
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
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. In clear, simple language it explained the advantages of and the need for immediate independence. It was published anonymously on January 10, 1776, at the beginning of the American Revolution and became an immediate sensation. -
Declaration of Independence
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. Instead they formed a union that would become a new nation—the United States of America. -
Battle of Long Island
a major victory for the British and defeat for the Americans under General George Washington. It was the start of a successful British campaign that gave the British control of the strategically important city of New York. In the American Revolutionary War it was the first major battle to take place after the United States declared independence in July, 1776. -
Battle of Trenton
The hazardous crossing in adverse weather made it possible for Washington to lead the main body of the Continental Army against Hessian soldiers garrisoned at Trenton. After a brief battle, nearly the entire Hessian force was captured, with negligible losses to the Americans. The battle significantly boosted the Continental Army's flagging morale, and inspired reenlistments. -
Winter at Valley Forge
Valley Forge in Pennsylvania was the site of the military camp of the American Continental Army over the winter of 1777–1778 during the American Revolutionary War. It is approximately 20 miles northwest of Philadelphia.Starvation, disease, and exposure killed nearly 2,500 American soldiers by the end of February 1778. -
Battles of Saratoga
A series of conflicts between British Soliders and the Continental Army that provided the turning point in the Revolutionary War -
American Crisis by Thomas Paine
A pamphlet series, to inspire the Americans in their battles against the British army. -
Battle of Yorktown
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. The culmination of the Yorktown campaign, the siege proved to be the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War, as the surrender by Cornwallis, and the capture of both him and his army. -
Treaty of Paris(Revolutionary War)
Ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain on one side and the United States of America and its allies on the other.
