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Paul Revere
Paul Revere was an American silversmith, engraver, early industiralist, and a patriot in the American Revolution. He is best known for {attempting to} alert the Colonial matilia to the approach of the British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord, as dramatized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, "Paul Revere's Ride." -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was an act of British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commericial documents. -
Proclomation of 1763
The Procolmation of 1763 was issued October 7th, 1763 by King George III following Great Britain's acquisation of French territory in North America. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act of 1764 was a British Law, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain, that was designed to revenue from American colonists in the 13 colonies. This act set taxes on sugar and moleasses imported into the colonies which impacted the manufacture of rum in New England. -
The Townshed Acts
The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed, by the Parliament of Great Britain of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. The acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of Exchequer, who proprosed the program. -
Boston Masscre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. 11 colinist were injured and 5 of them died and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of citizenry. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act was the final straw in the series of unpopular policies and taxes imposed by Britain on American colonies. The policy ignited a "powder keg" of opposition and resentment among American colonists and was the catalyst of the Boston Tea Party. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty, who dressed up like Native Americans, in Boston. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were the American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met from September 5th to October 26th, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
Edenton Tea Party
The Edenton Tea Party was one of the earliest organized women's political actions in United States history. Mrs. Penelope Barker organized, at the home Mrs. Elizabeth King, and 51 women in Edenton, North Carolina. -
Battle at Lexington and Concord
The Battle of Lexington and Concord were the first military engaements of the American Revolutionary War. They were fought on April 19 -
Mecklenburg Resolves
The Mecklenburg Resolves, or Charlotte Town Resolves, was a list of statements at Charlotte, in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina; drafted in the month following the fighting at Lexington and Concord. -
Continential Army
The Continental Army was formed after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War by the colonies that became the United States. -
Bunker Hill
Bunker Hill was a battle fought during the Seige of Boston in the early ages of American Revolutionary War. The battle is named for Bunker Hill, which was peripherally involved in the battle, and it was the original objective of both the colonial and British troops, through the vast majority of combat took place on the adjacent Breed's Hill. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. -
Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge
The Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge was a battle of the American Revolutionary War fought near Wilminton in present-day Pender County, North Carolina. The victory of North Carolina Revolutionary forces over Southern Loyalists helped build political support for the revolution. -
Halifax Resolves
The Halifax Resolves is the name later given to a resolution adopted by the Fourth Provincial Congress of Province, North Carolina. The resolution was a forerunner of the United States Declaration of Indepence. -
Declaration of Indepence
The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Continital Congress meeting at Philedelphia, Pennsylania, which announced that the thirteen American Colonies regaurded themselves as thirteen newly independent soverign states. -
Winter at Valley Forge
Valley Forge was the military camp in southeastern Pennsylvania where the American Colonial Army spent the winter of 1777-1778 during the American Revolutionary war. -
Battle of King's Mountain
The Battle of King's Mountain was a decisive victory in South Carolina for the patriot militia over the Loyalist militia in the Southern Campaign. -
Battle of Guilford Courthouse
On the afternoon of March 15th, 1781, American and British forces clashed for several hours near Guilford Courthouse. The battle was the culmination of several months of hard campaigning by the armies of Nathanael Greene and Charles Cornwallis. -
Battle of Yorktown
The Seige of Yorktown, the Surrdender at Yorktown or the German Battle, at Yorktown, Virginia was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army led by General George Washington. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by reprensenatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America, ended the American Revolutionary War.
