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Battle of Ticonderoga
The Battle of Ticonderoga, also known as the Siege of Ticonderoga, was a British approach that forced a small French garrison to withdraw. -
Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 forbade all settlement past a line on the Appalachian Mountains. Many colonists ignored the proclamation and settled anyways. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act taxed imported sugar, wine, molasses and coffee. It allowed British officers try offenders. It also stopped the colonies from exporting lumber and iron. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act required colonists to pay a direct tax on all paper. Colonists had to use stamped paper for all printed materials. -
Townshend Act
The Townshend act taxed the import of paper, lead, glass and tea. It also set up British courts to enfore the acts. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that started when a civillian attacked a British soldier and then a bunch of British soldiers came to defend him and killed civillians. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act flooded the market with British tea that was cheaper than American tea. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party disliked the Tea Act. They eventually got so fed up with it that they dumped British tea into the harbor to prove a point and abolish the act. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts closed Boston's oirt to all trade unless it was trade with England. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates that met at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia early in the revolution. -
Edenton Tea Party
The Edenton Tea Party consisted of 51 women who decided to go against the acts of Parliament. They stopped drinking British tea and began brewing their own. They also stopped wearing British cloth. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer soon after the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War, sparking many more battles to come. -
Mecklenburg Resolves
The Mecklenburg Resolves were a list of statements following the fighting at Lexington and Concord. -
Bunker Hill
The battle of Bunker Hill was fought in 1775, during the Siege of Boston. It took place in the early stages of the Revolutionary War. -
Continental Army
The Continental Army was formed after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War by the colonies that became the United States of America. -
Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge
The Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge was a battle of the American Revolutionary War fought near Wilmington. -
Halifax Resolves
The Halifax Resolves is a resolution adopted by the Fourth Provincial Congress of the Province of North Carolina. The resolution was a forerunner of the United States Declaration of Independence. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence announced that the thirteen American colonies declared themselves independent states and that they were no logner a part of the British Empire. -
Winter at Valley Forge
Washington decided to pull his troops from their camp in the White Marsh area and move to a more secure location for the coming winter. -
Battle of King's 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. -
Battle of Guilford Courthouse
The American and British forces clashed for several hours near Guilford Courthouse. -
Battle of Yorktown
The Battle of Yorktown was the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War in the North American theater, as the surrender by Cornwallis, and the capture of both him and his army, prompted the British government to negotiate an end to the conflict.
