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George Washington
General of the Continental army and later the 1st president -
George Washington
A Virginian mane chosen by the Second Continental Congress to lead the army that would fight in battles/war to protect their inalienable rights/freedom. -
Bpston Massacre
It was a street fight that occurred 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. -
Tea Act
The main purpose of the act was not to take/raise money from the colonists but to "bail out" the East India Company, a key comapny in the British economy. -
Edenton Tea Party
It was a political protest in Edenton, North Carolina, in response to the Tea Act, passed by the British Parliament in 1773. -
Boston Tea Party
An act of defiance toward the British government by American colonists. The government in London had given a British company the right to sell tea directly to the colonies, which undercut American merchants. -
Intolerable Acts
Also known as the Coercive Acts. s a series of British measures passed in 1774 and designed to punish the Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party. One of the laws closed the port of Boston until the colonists paid for the tea that they had destroyed. -
Paul Revere
Paul Revere was a silversmith from Boston who helped organize an intelligence /alarm system to keep watch on the British military. -
First Continental Congress
It was a convention of delegates from thirteen colonies that met at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
Stamp Act
An act placed on the colonies that forced direct taxes on the colonies and required many printed materials to be produced on stamped paper in London. -
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Seige of Boston
New England's military stopped the movement by land of the British Army garrisoned in Boston.Both sides had to dealt with supply/personnel issues. Eleven months of siege and the British left Boston by sailing to Nova Scotia. This was the opening mark of the American Revolution. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
It kicked of the American Revolution. A British armed force of about 700 men marched from Boston to destroy American military weapons at the town of Concord, As many as 3,500 militiamen firing constantly for 18 miles only killed or wounded roughly 250 Redcoats, compared to about 90 killed and wounded on their side. Nevertheless, they proved they could stand up to one of the most powerful armies in the world. -
Second Continental Congress
It was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
Battle of Ticonderoga
Significance of the Battle of Fort Ticonderoga: The significance of the conflict was that the cannons, munitions and other armaments from Fort Ticonderoga were transported to Boston and used to fortify Dorchester Heights and break the standoff at the Siege of Boston. The position of the fort itself was also very important as it protected New York and New England from British invasion from Canada. -
Mecklenburg Resolves
It was also known as the Charlotte Town Resolves. It was a list of statements adopted at Charlotte, in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina on May 31, 1775 drafted it in the month following the fighting at Lexington and Concord. -
Continental Army
It was formed after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War by the colonies that became the United States of America -
Bunker Hill
It was the first great battle of the Revolutionary War. It was fought near Boston when the British drove the Americans from their fort at Breed's Hill to Bunker Hill, but only after the Americans had run out of gunpowder. -
Olive Branch Petition
This was a final attempt in avoiding a full-on war between the Thirteen Colonies and Britian.The petition showed American loyalty to Great Britain. -
General thomas Gage
1774- chosen as military governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (instructions to execute the Intolerable Acts)
Attempts of taking military stores of Patriot militias in April 1775 Battles of Lexington and Concord led to the start of the American War of Independence.
He was replaced by General William Howe in October 1775, and returned to Britain. -
Halifax Resloves
It was a name later given to the resolution adopted by North Carolina . The adoption of the resolution was the first official action in the American Colonies calling for independence from Great Britain during the American Revolution -
Townshed Acts
Acts passed in June of 1767 by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. -
Declaration of Independence
It was written by the 2nd Continental congress by Thomas Jefferson as one last chance to make peace with the British. The king rejected it making the patriots very angry. It gave us the right to go to war against england to obtain our freedom but it also listed what the colonists thought was wrong of england to do. -
Battle of Trenton
The battle was a resounding physical and moral victory for Washington and his American troops. -
Battle of Charleston
Americans suffer their worst defeat of the revolution on this day in 1780, with the unconditional surrender of Major General Benjamin Lincoln. -
Battle of King's Mountain
British feared over-mountain men Cornwallis was the general Victory for the Colonists -
Battle of Cowpens
Tarleton vs. Greene
Victory for the Colonists -
Battle of Yorktown
A battle fought between the Americans and French against the British.George Washington (force of 17,000) and French and Continental troops fought against 9,000 British troops. The British got trapped and the Americans/French won. It became the end of the revolutionary fighting and the most important battle of the Revolutionary War. -
Treaty of Paris
It was an agreement between American colonies and Britain THE OFFICIAL END OF WAR! -
Treaty of Paris
It was signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America ended the American Revolutionary War.
