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The Quartng Act
The Act required that the colonists had to supply British troops with food,munitions and barracks. -
Stamp Act
As part of an effort to defray the burgeoning expense of running the empire, Parliament passed the Stamp Act in March 1765. The law was to become effective in the colonies on November 1 and was announced by Prime Minister George Grenville many months in advance; he expressed a willingness to substitute another revenue-raising measure if a more palatable one could be found. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British soldiers -
Boston Tea Party
The Tea Party was the culmination of a resistance movement throughout British America against the Tea Act, which had been passed by the British Parliament in 1773. Colonists objected to the Tea Act for a variety of reasons, especially because they believed that it violated their right to be taxed only by their own elected representatives. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen North American colonies that metat Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. Called in response to the passage of the Coercive Acts by the British Parliament, the Congress was attended by 56 members appointed by the legislatures of twelve of the Thirteen Colonies, the exception being the Province of Georgia, which did not send delegates. -
Intolerable Act
The acts sparked outrage and resistance in the Thirteen Colonies and were important developments in the growth of the American Revolution. The 5 acts that were passed: The Boston Port Act, The Massachusetts Government Act, The Administration of Justice Act, The Quartering Act, The Quebec Act -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
The battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that met soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
Declaration of Independence
The United States Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were now independent states, and thus no longer a part of the British Empire. Written primarily by Thomas Jefferson, -
Yorktown
The last battle that the British were in the USA
