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The Treaty of Paris (French and Indian War)
Britain claimed all of North America east of the Mississippi river. The treaty ended French power in North America. Ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain on one side and the United States of America and its allies on the other. -
The Proclomation of 1763
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued by King George III. The purpose 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. It eventually ensured that British culture and laws were applied in Upper Canada after 1791, which was done to attract British settlers to the province. -
Sugar Act
This law placed a tax on sugar, molasses, and other products shipped to the colonies. By reducing the rate by half and increasing measures to enforce the tax, the British hoped that the tax would actually be collected. These incidents increased the colonists' concerns about the intent of the British Parliament and helped the growing movement that became the American Revolution. -
The Stamp Act
This law required all legal and commercial documents to carry an official stamp showing that a tax had been paid off. These printed materials were legal documents, magazines, newspapers and many other types of paper used throughout the colonies. Like previous taxes, the stamp tax had to be paid in valid British currency, not in colonial paper money. The purpose of the tax was to help pay for troops stationed in North America after the British victory in the Seven Years' War. -
The Quartering Act
Outlining the locations and conditions in which British soldiers are to find room and board in the American colonies. It also required citizens to provide food for any British soldiers in the area. The act further inflamed tensions between the colonists and the British. -
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre, known as the Incident on King Street by the British was an incident where British Army soldiers killed five civilian men and injured six others. They fired into the crowd, without orders, instantly killing three people and wounding others in fear for their lives. British troops had been stationed in Boston, capital of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, since 1768. -
The Tea Act
Gave a monopoly on tea sales to the East India Company. In other words, American colonists could buy no tea unless it came from that company. A related objective was to undercut the price of tea smuggled into Britain's North American colonies. This was supposed to convince the colonists to purchase Company tea on which the Townshend duties were paid. -
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a nonviolent protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston.The colonists dressed as Indians and boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into Boston Harbor, ruining the tea. The Boston Tea Party turned into a very famous event and other political protests often refer to it. -
The Intolerable Acts
Laws that were really punishments that King George III put on the colonies. He did this to the Colonists because he wanted to punish them for dumping tea into the harbor at the Boston Tea Party. The Quakers petitioned King George to repeal or end the acts, but he said that the colonies must submit to these English laws. -
The 1st Continental Congress
The first Continental Congress met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia. The colonies presented there were united in a determination to show a combined authority to Great Britain. It was called in response to the passage of the intolerble acts by the British Parliament. -
The Battles of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were 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 13 colonies in the mainland of British North America. The militia were outnumbered and fell back, and the regulars proceeded on to Concord, where they searched for the supplies. -
The Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the 13 colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775. Many of the same 56 delegates who attended the first meeting also attendeed the second. Delegates from 1=- of the 13 Colonies were present when the Second Continental Congress convened. Georgia had not participated in the First Continental Congress and did not initially send delegates to the Second Continental Congress. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
The battle is named after the adjacent Bunker Hill, which was peripherally involved in the battle. On June 13, 1775, 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. Furthermore, the battle demonstrated that relatively inexperienced colonial forces were willing and able to stand up to regular army troops in a pitched battle. -
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
Common Sense is a pamphlet that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain. Common Sense presented the American colonists with an argument for freedom from British rule at a time when the question of whether or not to seek independence was the central issue of the day. Paine wrote and reasoned in a style that common people understood. -
American Crisis by Thomas Paine
The American Crisis is a pamphlet series by 18th century Enlightenment philosopher and author Thomas Paine, originally published from 1776 to 1783 during the American Revolution. Often known as The American Crisis or simply The Crisis, there are sixteen pamphlets in total. Thirteen numbered pamphlets were published between 1776 and 1777, with three additional pamphlets released between 1777 and 1783. -
The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress, which announced that the 13 American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states. Instead they formed a union that would become a new nation the United States of America. -
The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress, which announced that the 13 American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states. Instead they formed a union that would become a new nation the United States of America. -
The Battle of Brooklyn
The Battle of Long Island, also known as the Battle of Brooklyn or the Battle of Brooklyn Heights was 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. -
The Battle of Trenton
The Battle of Trenton took place during the American Revolutionary War, after General George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River north of Trenton, New Jersey. 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 signific -
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
The first battle began on Sept. 19th and was won by the British. The second battle begun on Oct. 7 and ended the 17th, the British surrendered and the Americans won. Horatio got all the credit for their victory that Arnold shouldave received. -
Battle of Yorktown
The Battle of Yorktown, the latter taking place on October 19, 1781, 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. The culmination of the Yorktown campaign, the siege proved to be the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War. -
The Treaty of Paris (Revolutionary War)
The Treaty of Paris ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain on one side and the United States of America and its allies on the other. The other combatant nations, France, Spain and the Dutch Republic had separate agreements; for details of these, and the negotiations which produced all four treaties. Its territorial provisions were "exceedingly generous" to the United States in terms of enlarged boundaries.
