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Battle of Ticonderoga
The 1759 Battle of Ticonderoga was a minor confrontation at Fort Carillon on July 26 and 27, 1759, during the French and Indian War. -
Poclamation of 1763
The Proclamation was issued in 1763, by King Geroge III. Following Great Britain's aquisition of French terriorty in North America after the end of the French and Indian war. The Proclamation of 1763 forbaded all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalschian Mountains. -
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Sugar Act
Taxed imported sugar, wine, molases, and coffee; allowed British offenders; stoped the colonies from exporting lumber and iron. -
Stamp Act
Requuired colonists to pay a direct tax on all paper. Colonists had to use stamped paper for all printes materials. -
Townhead Act
Taxes imported of paper, lead, glass, and tea. Set up British courts to enforse the acts. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight started with a patriot mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, at a squad of British soliders. Several of the colonists were killed and that led to a campaign by speech-writters to rouse the ire of citizenry. -
Tea Act
Flooded the market with British tea that was cheaper than American tea. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a direct protect by coloists in Boston against the Tea Tax that have been imposed by the british goverment. -
Intolerable Acts
Closed Bostons port to all trade except with England the power of the British governor. -
Edenton Tea Party
Was one of the earliest organized Women's plolitical actions in the United states history. Mrs. Penelope Barker organized, at home of Mrs. Elizabeth king, fifty one women in Edenton, North Carolina. -
First Continental Congress
The first continental congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on Steptember 5 to October 26, 1774 a carpenter hall in Philadelphia. -
Mecklenburg Resolves
Was a list of statments adopted folowing the fighting ar Lexington and Concord. -
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 at Lexington and Concord
This kicked off the start of the American Revolutionary war. Tensions have been building btween the 13 colonies and the British authorties. One night the Britch marched to concord in order to seize and arms a cache. -
Paul Revere
He was going to see Dr.warren and he found out that the british troops were planing to march to Lexington ancd Concord. They are going to arrest Samual Adams and John Hancock. The men were staying in house owned by Dr.Warren and he wanted Paul to ride into Lexington and warn them about the British troops. -
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 Revoluntionaly War. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Coloines that started meeting in the summer of 1775, soon after warfare, The American Revolutionary war 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. -
Halifax Resolves
The Halifax Resolves is the name latter given to a resolution adopted by the Fourth Provinivcial 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 is defined as the formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain. An example of the Declaration of Independence was the document adopted at the Second Continental Congress on July 4th, 1776. -
Winter at Valley Forge
The 12,000 men and women of the continental army who arrived in Valley Forge on December 9, 1777 with comander in chief, General George Washington, were half starved and did not belive that they could win a independence war aginst Britian. -
Battle of Kings Mountain
The Battle of Kings Mountain was a decsive victory in South Carolina for the patriot millitia over loyalist millitia in the southern campaign of the American Revolutionary War. -
Battle at Guilford Courthouse
The Battle of Guilford Court House was a battle fought on March 15, 1781, at a site which is now in Greensboro, the county seat of Guilford County, North Carolina, during the American Revolutionary War. -
Battle of Yorktown
On this day in 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 (1783)
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.
