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French and Indian War
The war started in 1754 and lasted 9 years. The British gained Florida and debt as a result of the war. This war was the setting stone for the American Revolution. -
Treaty of 1763
This treaty ended the French and Indian war. The British acknowledged the independence of the United States. US boundaries were established and Great Britain was destroyed in North America. -
Proclamation of 1763
Created the boundary for the US and made it to where the US can only go so far west. The line was on the Appalachian mountains. The line was placed due to Pontiac's rebellion. -
Stamp Act
The stamp act made it to where you had to purchase a stamp to put on all legal documents. The stamp act was used to help pay for the war debt. -
Boston Massacre
This tension was caused by all the taxes from the British. It started as a street fight and then ended as a massacre of Boston civilians. More than half of Boston's showed up for the funerals. -
Committees of Correspondence
The Committees served as the early propaganda arm of the Patriot movement, creating underground papers and tracts that warned of growing British tyranny. It was also an instrumental in organizing colonial boycotts. -
Boston Tea Party
The Tea Party started because the British raised taxes on tea. The sons of liberty went on the ships and threw the tea barrels into the harbor as a protest. The sons of liberty dressed as Indians to try and trick the British ,but it didn't convince the British. -
Intolerable acts
The Intolerable Acts were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British Government. -
Lexington and Concord
The British pushed towards Concord and that is when Paul Revere and the colonists stood up against the British. Then the British pushed Lexington and went under heavy fire and retreated. -
Bunker Hill
The battle of Bunker Hill was of the early stages of the American Revolution. The British won the battle of Bunker Hill. Also even though it is called the Battle of Bunker hill, most of the fighting occurred on Breed's Hill. -
Declaration of Independence
After many hard fought battles, the Americans finally achieved freedom from the British. Thomas jefferson helped create the Declaration of Independence which declared the US' freedom from Britain. -
Publication of Common Sense
Writing in clear and persuasive prose, Paine marshaled moral and political arguments to encourage common people in the Colonies to fight for egalitarian government. It was published anonymously on January 10, 1776, at the beginning of the American Revolution, and became an immediate sensation. -
Valley Forge
Valley Forge functioned as the third of eight winter encampments for the Continental Army's main body, commanded by General George Washington, during the American Revolutionary War. In September 1777, Congress fled Philadelphia to escape the British capture of the city. -
Saratoga
The Battle of Saratoga occurred in September and October, 1777, during the second year of the American Revolution. It included two crucial battles, fought eighteen days apart, and was a decisive victory for the Continental Army and a crucial turning point in the Revolutionary War. -
Cowpens
The Battle of Cowpens was an engagement during the American Revolutionary War fought on January 17, 1781 near the town of Cowpens, South Carolina, between U.S. forces under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan and British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Sir Banastre Tarleton, as part of the campaign in the Carolinas. -
Yorktown
Siege of Yorktown, (September 28–October 19, 1781), joint Franco-American land and sea campaign that entrapped a major British army on a peninsula at Yorktown, Virginia, and forced its surrender. The siege virtually ended military operations in the American Revolution. -
Treaty of Paris 1783
The Treaty of Paris was signed by U.S. and British Representatives on September 3, 1783, ending the War of the American Revolution. Based on 1782 preliminary treaty, the agreement recognized U.S. independence and granted the U.S. significant western territory.
