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John Locke was an English philosopher and physician. Born August 29th 1632. Died October 28th 1704.
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Samuel Adams was an American statesmen, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Born September 27, 1722. Died October 2nd, 1802.
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Martha Washington was the wife of George Washington, the first President. Born June 13, 1731. Died May 22 1802.
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George Washington was an American politician and solder who served as the first President of the United States. Born February 22, 1732. Died December 14, 1799.
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John Adams was an American patriot who served as the second of the United States and the first Vice President. Born October 30th 1735. Died July 4th 1826.
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Paul Revere was an American silversmith, engraver, early indrustrialist, and Patriot in the American Revolution. Born January 1st 1735. Died May 10th 1818.
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John Handcock was an American merchant, statesmen, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. Born January 23, 1737. Died October 8th, 1793.
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Benedict Arnold was a general during the American Revolutionary war, who fought for the American Continental Army. Born January 14th 1741. Died June 14th 1801.
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Thomas Jefferson was an American Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States from 1801 to 1809. Born April 13th, 1743. Died July 4th, 1826.
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Abigail Adams was the closest advisor and wife of John Adams, as well as the mother of John Quincy Adams. Born November 11th 1744. Died October 28th 1818.
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The French and Indian was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Year War.
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Alexander Hamilton was an American statesman and one of the founding fathers of the United Sates. Born January 11th 1757. Died July 12th 1804.
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The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued on October 7, 1763, by King George which forbade all al settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.
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On April 5, 1764, Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act, which was about to expire. Under the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses.
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The Currency Act is any of several Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain that regulated paper money issued by the colonies of British America.
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The passage of the Stamp act was imposed on all Americans colonists and required them to pay tax on every peace of paper they used. Which made the colonist protest.
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The Quartering Act is a name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the local government of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations and housing.
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Declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act.
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A series of measure introduced into the English Parliament by Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshend Act imposed duties on glass, lead, paints paper and tea imported into the colonies. Passed on 1767
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The Boston Massacre, known as the Incident on King Street by the British, was an Incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers shot and killed people while under attack by a mob.
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The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts.
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The Boston Port Act was designed to punish in the inhabitants of Boston Massachusetts for the incidents that would become known as the Boston Tea Party.
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The Administration of Justice Act, was aimed at protecting British officials charged with capital offenses during law enforcement by allowing them to go to England or another colony for trial.
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The Massachusetts Government Act was passed by the Parliament of Great Britain, receiving royal assent on May 20 1774.
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Quebec Act, passed by the British Parliament to institute a permanent administration in Canada replacing the temporary government created at the time of the Proclamation of 1763.
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The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen Colonies who met from September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pannsylvania early in America Revolution.
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The Battle of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagement of the American Revolutionary War.
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The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on June 17, 1775, during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War.
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''Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death'' is a quotation attributed to Patrick Henry form a speech he made to the second Virginia Convention on March 23, 1775, at St. Johns Church in Richmond , Virginia.
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Minutenem were civilian colonist who independently organized to form prepared militia companies self-trained in weaponry, tactics, and military strategies from the American colonial partisan militia during the American Revolutionary War.
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First Continental Congress succeeded. The second Congress managed the Colonial war effort and moved incrementally towards independence on July 4, 1776.
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Hassians were the 18th century German auxiliaries contracted for military service by the British government, which found it easier to borrow money pay for their service then to recruit its own soldiers.
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The Battle Saratoga marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American War.
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The Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation, the first constitution of United States, on November 15, 1777.
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The second agreement, that Treaty of Alliance, made the fledgling United States and France allies against Great Britain in the Revolutionary War.
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Treaty of Paris of 1783, negotiated between the United States and Great Britain, ended the revolutionary war and recognized American independence.
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The US Constitution established America's national government and fundamental laws, and government and fundamental laws, and guaranteed certain basic rights for its citizens.
