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The Treaty Of Paris
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. -
Proclamation of 1763
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War. In which it forbade settlers from settling past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.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. -
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. -
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. -
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 colonists were angered about having their homes fo
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Boston Massacure
British Army soldiers killed five civilian men and injured six others. British troops had been stationed in Boston, capital of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, since 1768.
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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. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston. Disguised as Indians, the demonstrators destroyed all of the tea sent by the East India Company in defiance of the American boycott of tea carrying a tax the Americans had not authorized. They boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into Boston Harbor, ruining the tea. The Tea Party became an event of American history. -
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. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from twelve colonies that met at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. It was called in response to the passage of the Intolerable Acts by the British Parliament. The Intolerable Acts had punished Boston for the Boston Tea Party. -
Battle of 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, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge, near Boston. 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 Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the 13 colonies.
It started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. It succeeded the First Continental Congress, which met between September 5, 1774 and October 25, 1774, also in Philadelphia The second Congress managed the colonial war effort. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
The Battle of Bunker Hill took place on mostly on and around Breed's Hill, during the Siege of Boston early in the American Revolutionary War. The battle is named after the adjacent Bunker Hill, which was peripherally involved in the battle and was the original objective of both colonial and British troops. It's occasionally referred to as the "Battle of Breed's Hill." -
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. Paine signed the pamphlets with the pseudonym, "Common Sense." -
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain. In clear, simple language it explained the advantages of and the need for immediate independence. It was published anonymously at the beginning of the American Revolution and became an immediate sensation. -
Declaration of Independance
The Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress 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. John Adams was a leader in pushing for independence, which was unanimously approved on July 2. -
The Battle of Long Island (Battle of Brooklyn)
The Battle of Long Island, also known as the Battle of Brooklyn or the Battle fought on August 27, 1776, 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. In terms -
Battle of Brooklyn
The Battle of Brooklyn 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. -
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. -
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 Battles of Saratoga conclusively decided the fate of British General John Burgoyne's army in the American War of Independence and are generally regarded as a turning point in the war. Two battles were fought eighteen days apart on the same ground, 9 miles south of Saratoga, New York. Burgoyne's campaign to divide New England from the southern colonies had started well, but slowed due to logistical problems. -
Battle of Yorktown
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, prompted the British government to negotiate an end. -
Treaty of Paris (Revolutionary War)
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. 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, see Peace of Paris (1783). Its territorial provisions were "exceedingly generous" to the United States in terms of enlarged boundaries.
