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Battle of Ticanderoga
The 1759 Battle of Ticonderoga was a minor confrontation at Fort Carillon (later renamed Fort Ticonderoga) on July 26 and 27, 1759, during the French and Indian War. -
Proclomation of 1763
This stopped the coloninst from moving west to the appalachian mountains. -
Sugar Act
Taxed imported sugar, wine, molasses, and coffee; allowed British officers to try offenders; stopped the colonies from exporting lumber and iron -
Stamp Act
Colonist had to pay a direct tax on all paper. Colonist had to use stamped paper for all printed materials. -
Townshed Act
Taxed the import of paper, lead, glass and tea. Set up British courts to enforce the acts -
Boston Massacre
A street fight between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. -
Tea Act
Flooded the market with british tea that was cheaper then American tea -
Boston Tea Party
Was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston
December 16, 1773. -
Intolerable Acts
Closed boston port to all track except with england. -
Edenton Tea Party
The Edenton Tea Party was one of the earliest organized women’s political actions in United States history. On October 25, 1774, Mrs. Penelope Barker organized, at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth King, fifty-one women in Edenton, North Carolina. Together they formed an alliance wholeheartedly supporting the American cause against “taxation without representation.” -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
The Battle of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
Paul Revere's midnight ride
Paul Revere`s Midnight Ride. In the spring of 1775, most of the Massachusetts Patriot leaders had taken refuge in outlying communities, fearing arrest by British officials. Remaining in Boston were two physicians, Benjamin Church and Joseph Warren, the latter serving as the group's leader in Samuel Adams' absence. -
Mecklenburg Resolves
The Mecklenburg Resolves, or Charlotte Town Resolves, was a list of statements adopted at Charlotte, in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina on May 31, 1775; drafted in the month following the fighting at Lexington and Concord. -
Continental Army
Continental Army was the colonies that became the United States of America.June 14, 1775 -
The Battle of Bunker Hill
The Battle of Bunker Hill was a battle fought on June 17, 1775, during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary it was not fought in bunkerhill it was fought in Breed's Hill. -
Second Continential Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare, the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge
The Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge was a battle of the American Revolutionary War fought near Wilmington in present-day Pender County, North Carolina. -
Halifax Resolves
The Halifax Resolves is the name later given to a resolution adopted by the Fourth Provincial Congress of the Province of North Carolina. e resolution was a forerunner of the United States Declaration of Independence. -
Declaration of Independance
It was a statement that said that the thirdteen colonies was going to by themself and not a part of britain -
Winter at Valley Forge
In December, Washington marched his tired, beaten, hungry and sick army to Valley forge a location about 20 miles northwest of British-occupied Philadelphia. -
Battle of Kings Mountain
The Battle of Kings Mountain was a decisive victory in South Carolina for the Patriot militia over the Loyalist militia in the Southern campaign of the American Revolutionary War and it was a turning point in the war -
Battle of Guliford Courthouse
The Battle of Guilford Court House was a battle fought on March 15, 1781, at a site which is now in Greensboro -
Battle of Yorktown
General George Washington, commanding a force of 17,000 French and Continental troops, begins the siege known as the Battle of Yorktown against British General Lord Charles Cornwallis and a contingent of 9,000 British troops at Yorktown, Virginia, in the most important battle of the Revolutionary War. -
The Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America ended the American Revolutionary War.