Tim Siguaw American Revolution Timeline

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    Paul Revere

    An American silversmith, engraver, folk hero, early industrialist, Sons of Liberty member and Patriot. He is one of the people that said, "The British are coming!"
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    John Hancock

    An American Founding Father, merchant, statesman and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution.
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    Benedict Arnold

    Benedict Arnold was a militia officer who defected to Britain in 1780. That's why you do a "Benedict Arnold" when you switch sides in the war.
  • Isaiah Thomas (1749 - 1831)

    Published the Massachusetts Spy right before and during the revolution. Was a radical anti-British printer Founded the American Antiquarian society, for many reasons.
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    French and Indian War

    A theater of the Seven Years' War which pitted the Colonies against the French and Native American tribes.
  • George and Martha Washington.

    George and Martha Washington get married
  • Proclamation of 1763

    The Proclamation Line of 1763 was a British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide.
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    Abigail and John Adams

    Letters of Mrs. Adams, wife of John Adams, are important because John served on the Continental Congress from 1774 -1777.
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    American Revolution

    The American Revolution was the war that followed the colonial Declaration of Independence, where American colonists broke from their economic and legal connections with Britain. Several significant events led up to the declaration as well as the outbreak of fighting some of which included propaganda or violence. Many theories and perspectives exist on the reasons for the war, its causes, and outcomes.
  • Boston Massacre

    This was a confrontation in Boston which 9 British Soldiers shot several people in a crowd who were harassing them verbally and throwing things.
  • Boston Tea Party

    An American political and mercantile protest led by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts
  • Minutemen

    Citizens that were in a militia on Samuel Adam's side.
  • The Quartering Act

    4th and final of the main Coercive Acts. Applied to all the colonies and allowed high ranking military officials to demand better accommodations for troops.
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    First Continental Congress

    A meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British Colonies (that became the US.)
  • "Give Me Liberty of Give Me Death" Speech

    A quote from Patrick Henry, American politician and orator, at he Second Virgina Convention
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    Second Continental Congress

    Another meeting of the delegates a month after shot had been fired at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts and the Congress prepared for war.
  • Hessians

    30,000 German troops the British hired.
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    French Alliance

    French provided supplies to troops of Continental Army
  • End of Revolutionary War

    The Confederation Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris
  • US Constitution signed

    Drafted in secret by delegates of the Constitutional Convention. Established the government of the US.