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Stamp Act
The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed.
The Stamp Act was viewed as a direct attempt by England to raise money in the colonies without approval.If the new tax were allowed to pass without resistance, the colonists realized the door would be open for far more troublesome taxation in the future. -
Proclamation of 1763
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War. This forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed, beginning in 1767, by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. The acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the program. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry. -
The Tea Act
The Tea Act was the final straw in a series of unpopular policies and taxes imposed by Britain on her American colonies. The policy ignited a “powder keg” of opposition and resentment among American colonists and was the catalyst of the Boston Tea Party. The tea tax was kept in order to maintain Parliament’s right to tax the colonies. -
Boston Tea Party
In 1771, The Sons of Liberty organized the Boston Tea party. The night of December 16th 1773, hundreds of colonists went to the three ships and offloaded the tea cargoes of all three ships. Each of the three ships carried more than one hundred chests of British East India Company tea. A portion of the salvaged tea cargo ended up in Boston and was later destroyed by the Sons of Liberty. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were passed in 1774 to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party. There were three major acts involved that angered the colonists. The first was the Boston Port Bill and it closed the Boston Harbor until the people of Boston paid for the tea that they threw into the harbor. The Quebec Act, The Massachusetts Government Act, The Administration of Justice Act, the Quartering Act, The Impartial Administration of Justice Act are also played a part in the Intolerables Act. -
Edenton Tea Party
On October 26th in 1774 ffity-one women met at Mrs.Elizabeth King's home. The women of Edenton signed an agreement saying they were “determined to give memorable proof of their patriotism” and could not be “indifferent on any occasion that appears nearly to affect the peace and happiness of our country . . . it is a duty that we owe, not only to our near and dear connections . . . but to ourselves.” .The incident was not taken seriously because it was led by women. -
The 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 Congress was attended by 56 delegates appointed by the legislatures of twelve of the thirteen colonies. Georgia declined to send delegates because they were hoping for British assistance with Native American problems on its frontier and did not want to upset the British. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that met in Philadelphia, Pensylvania . It succeeded the First Continental Congress. he second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. -
Battle at Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. They were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge, near Boston.Tensions had been building for many years between residents of the 13 American colonies and the British authorities, particularly in Massachusetts. -
The 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. The Mecklenburg Resolves left the door open to a reconciliation if Parliament were to "resign its unjust and arbitrary Pretentions with respect to America", -
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. Established by a resolution of the Continental Congress. it was created to coordinate the military efforts of the Thirteen Colonies in their revolt against the rule of Great Britain. Most of the continental army was disbanded in 1783 after the Treaty of Paris ended the war. -
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 War. After two assaults on the colonial positions were repulsed with significant British casualties, the third and final attack carried the redoubt after the defenders ran out of ammunition. The colonists retreated to Cambridge over Bunker Hill, leaving the British in control of the Peninsula. -
Paul Revere
The sole credit for the success of the ride was given to Revere only. He rode alone. The actual truth is Revere was accompanied by two other riders, Williams Dawes and Samuel Prescott. Most think he rode to Lexington to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock but never made it further to Concord because he was captured but soon released by the British soldiers. Another messenger Dr. Samuel Prescott, rode from Lexington to Concord to warn the residents. -
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 on February 27, 1776. The victory of North Carolina Revolutionary forces over Southern Loyalists helped build political support for the revolution and increased recruitment of additional soldiers into their forces. -
Sugar Act
In April of 1764, Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act. Because of corruption, they mostly evaded the taxes and undercut the intention of the tax — that the English product would be cheaper than that from the French West Indies. This hurt the British West Indies market in molasses and sugar and the market for rum, which the colonies had been producing in quantity with the cheaper French molasses. -
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 in April 1776. The resolution was a forerunner of the United States Declaration of Independence. The Halifax Resolves was a harbinger, influencing other colonial assemblies to draft similar resolutions and ultimately cooperate in composing the Declaration of Independence. The document’s importance is still remembered. -
The Declaration Of Independence
Actually, independence was formally declared on July 2, 1776, a date that John Adams believed would be “the most memorable epocha in the history of America.” On July 4, 1776, Congress approved the final text of the Declaration. It wasn't signed until August 2, 1776.This was sifned Pennsylvania on July 4, which announced that the thirteen American colonies,then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer part of the British Empire. -
Battle Of Fort Ticonderoga
July 2, 1777 – July 6, 1777.
As the first rebel victory of the Revolutionary War, the Battle of Fort Ticonderoga served as a morale booster and provided key artillery for the Continental Army in that first year of war. Cannons captured at Fort Ticonderoga would be used during the successful Siege of Boston the following spring. Because of its location, the fort would also serve as a staging ground for Continental troops before their planned invasion of British-held territory in Canada. -
Winter Of Valley Forge
Valley Forge was the military camp in southeastern Pennsylvania where the American Continental Army spent the winter of 1777–1778 during the American Revolutionary War. Starvation, disease, malnutrition, and exposure killed over 2,500 American soldiers by the end of February 1778.With winter almost setting in, and with the prospects, General George Washington sought quarters for his men. Washington and his troops had fought what was to be the last major engagement of 1777. -
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.Ferguson had arrived in North Carolina in early September 1780 to recruit troops for the Loyalist militia and protect the flank of Lord Cornwallis' main force. Ferguson issued a challenge to the rebel militias to lay down their arms or suffer the consequences. In response, the Patriot militias rallied for an attack. -
Battle Of Guilford Courthouse
The Battle of Guilford Courthouse in North Carolina, proved pivotal to the American victory in the American Revolutionary War (1775-83). .Although British troops under Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis scored a tactical victory at Guilford Courthouse over American forces under Major General Nathanael Greene, the British suffered significant troop losses during the battle. Later, Cornwallis' Virginia troop surrendered to George Washington's troop. -
Battle Of Yorktown
September 28, 1781 – October 19, 1781 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. -
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 on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War. This treaty, along with the separate peace treaties between Great Britain and the nations that supported the American cause.
