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Proclamation of 1763
King George III issued a proclamation that banned colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains. He hoped to appease Native Americans who had sided against him during the recently ended Seven years' war. -
Sugar Act
The British Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses act, which was close to the end. Colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses. -
Stamp Act
This was not the first stampa act that was passed by the Britisch Parliament. The Act placed a tax on all contracts, wills, permits, newspapers, pamphlets and dice used in the American colonies. This act was placed upon all 13 colonies -
Townshend Acts
Series of acts passed by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. These acts wer named after CHarles Townshend, who proposed the program. -
Boston Massacre
This was a street fight that was between "patriot" mob, throwing many different objects and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed which led to to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the colony. -
Tea Act
Launched the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston. This act was not intended to raise revenue in the American colonies, and in fact imposed no new taxes. -
Boston Tea Party
Samuel Adams and "Sons of Liberty" boarded three ships in the Boston Harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. This ended in many other acts in 1774 and pushed both of the sides closer and closer to having a war. -
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Intolerable Acts
These acts were a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament after the Boston Tea Party. They were meant to punish the Massachusettes colonists for thei defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston Harbor. -
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First Continental Congress
This congress first met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia. Carpenter's Hall was also the seat for the Pennsylvania Congress. All of the colonies except for Georgia sent delegates. -
Tea Party
This was one of the earliest organized women's political actions in the United States history. This was organized by Mrs. Penelope Barker and was held in Mrs. Elizabeth King, fifty-one women participated. -
Paul Revere
A warning delivered by Paul Revere was that "The Redcoats are coming!" He wailed as British were marching in from Boston, westward towards Lexington. -
Second Continental Congress
This congress succeeded over the First Continental Congress and took place in Philedelphia, right after the battles of Lexington and Concord. Independence Hall was the home of the Second Continental Congress. -
Battle of Ticonderoga
This battle took place 200 miles away from Boston whcih would be the next major conflict in the Revolutionary war. A small force of Green Mountain Boys overcame a small British garrison at the fort and looted the personal belongings of the garrison. -
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Mecklenburg Resolves
This document was created by Mecklenburg County Commitee of Safety and was adopted by the same commitee. It was just weeks after what are now considered the first battles in the American War for Independence at Lexington and Concord, Massachusettes. -
Continental Army
This army was formed after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War by the colonists that became the United States of America. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
This happened during the seige of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary war. This is where the British drove the American soldiers from their fort at Breed's hill, but, only after the Americans ran out of gunpowder. -
Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge
This battle took place in North Carolina during the Revolutionary war. American forces defeated the British. The victory ended British authority in North Carolina and provided an important boost to Patriot morale. -
Halifax Resolves
Halifax Resolves was the name later given to a resolution adopted by the Fouth Provincial Congress of the Provine in North Carolina. The resolution was a forerunner of the United States Decleration of Independence. -
Declaration of Independence
This was a statement that had been adopted by the COntinental Congress which was meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This announced that the thirteen American colonies, which was recently at war with Britain, regarded themeselves as thirteen newly independent colonies. -
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Winter At Valley Forge
Valley Forge was a military camp just 20 miles from Philadelphia. This is where the American Continental Army spent the winter of 1777-1778 during the American Revolutionary war. 12,000 men and women of the continental army arrived at Valley Forge with Commander in Cheif, General George Washington. They were starving, and no longer believed that they could win the war of independence from Britain. The colonists were overcoming the Brits as the war came to a close. -
Battle of Kings Mountain
This battle took place 9 miles south of present-day town of Kings Mountain, North Carolina in rural CHerokee County, South Carolina. This is where the Patriot militia defeated the Loyalist militia commanded by British Major Patrick Ferguson. The Mountain Men did not fight the same way that the British fought. -
Battle of Guilford Courthouse
American and British forces battled for several hours near Guilford courthouse. The battle was the cumulation of several months of hard compaigning by the armies of Nathanel Greene and Charles Cornwallis. The whole time that the two sides were fighting it was hard to tell who was winning because it was changing rapidly the whole time. -
Battle of Yorktown
This battle took place in Yorktown, Virginia. This was an amazing victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by George Washington. -
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Treaty of Paris
Congress approved initial articles of peace which ended the Revolutionary War with Great Britain. The Treaty of Paris was signed, bringing the conclusion of the Revolutionary War.
