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French and Indian War
The first war between the French and British to control the colonies from 1754 to 1763. -
Stamp Act
Stamp Act was a tax against anything and everything the colonists would buy. -
Boston Massacre
On March 5, 1770 a young apprentice hit the soldier on his duty outside the Customs House. The soldier cuffed the boy on his ear with the bottom of his rifle in response. The boy soon returned with some 60 boys and continued to hurt the soldier. The soldier called for other soldiers from the main guard and was joined by six soldiers and an officer. Church bells were rung and soon the mob swelled. -
Burning of Boston Tax Office
Is when the Colonists formed infront of the Tax Office and than put it on fire because they didn't wanna pay the taxes that the british were giving them. -
Tea Tax
The Tea Act passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, would launch the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston. -
Boston Tea Party
The British were sending tea over to the colonies but Colonists didn't wanna pay taxes for the tea so the "Sons of Liberty" dressed up as Native Americans and than dumped all the tea on the British ship into the Boston Harbor. -
First Continental Congress
The congress issued a declaration of rights and organized an economic boycott of England. It also issued the Olive Branch Petition asking the king to redress the colonies' grievances. -
Lexington and Concord
The Battle of Lexington and Concord was made up of two battles that began on April 18th, 1775. British soldiers were sent to Concord to get John Hancock and Samuel Adams but both men had been warned about the British attack. The night of April 18th Paul Revere rode through Concord warning everybody about the British attack. -
Midnight Ride
Paul Revere rode on the night of the battle of Lexington and Concord because he had to go and warn people that the british were coming. -
Second Continental Congress
The second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4th, 1776. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
The battle is named after the Bunker Hill. The British finally captured the positions on the third assault, after they ran out of ammunition. The colonial forces retreated to Cambridge over Bunker Hill, suffering their most significant losses on Bunker Hill. -
Declaration of Independence
The United States Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, 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, the Declaration is a formal explanation of why Congress had voted on July 2 to declare independence from Great Britain, more than a year after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary -
Battle of Long Island
The Battle of Long Island, also known as the Battle of Brooklyn or the Battle of Brooklyn Heights, fought on August 27, 1776, was the first major battle in the American Revolutionary War following the United States Declaration of Independence, the largest battle of the entire conflict, and the first battle in which an army of the United States engaged, having declared itself a nation only the month before. -
Nathan Hale
Nathan Hale (June 6, 1755 – September 22, 1776) . During the Battle of Long Island, which led to British victory and the capture of New York City, via a flanking move from Staten Island across Long Island, Hale volunteered on September 8, 1776, to go behind enemy lines and report on British troop movements. He was ferried across on September 12. It was an act of spying that was immediately punishable by death, and posed a great risk to Hale. -
Battle of Trenton
The Battle of Trenton took place on December 26, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War after General George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River north of Trenton, New Jersey. The hazardous crossing in adverse weather made it possible for Washington to lead the main body of the Continental Army against Hessian soldiers at Trenton. -
Crossing the Delaware
The British chased the Americans through New Jersey and by December had forced the Continental Army to abandon the state and cross the Delaware into Pennsylvania. -
Battle of Saratoga
The Battles of Saratoga, sometimes referred to as The Battle of Saratoga (September 19 and October 7, 1777). -
Valley Forge
Valley Forge in Pennsylvania was the site of the camp of the American Continental Army over the winter of 1777–1778 in the American Revolutionary War. -
Molly Pitcher
Molly Pitcher was a nickname given to a woman said to have fought in the American Revolutionary War. -
George Roders Clark
George Rogers Clark (November 19, 1752 – February 13, 1818) was a soldier from Virginia and the highest ranking American military officer on the northwestern frontier during the American Revolutionary War. He served as part of the Kentucky(part of Virginia) militia throughout much of the war. Clark is best known for his celebrated captures of Kaskaskia (1778) and Vincennes (1779), which really weakened British influence in the Northwest Territory. -
The Battle of Vincennes
King George III's Proclamation of 1763 gave the Indians the land west Appalachian Mountains for their Hunting Grounds. The British used this to their advantage. Colonel Henry Hamilton of the British Army paid the Indians for any colonist scalps. This, of course, encouraged the Indians to attack the white colonists and at the same time protected the British because they did not want to lose the money they were receiving. -
Surrender of Yorktown
september 28 - october 19 1781The Siege of Yorktown or Battle of Yorktown in 1781 was a decisive victory by combined assault of American forces led by Major General George Washington and French forces led by General Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by Lieutenant General Lord Cornwallis. It proved to be the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War, as the surrender of Cornwallis's army prompted the British government eventually to negotiate an end to the conflict. -
Lord Cornwallis/Yorktown
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis KG (31 December 1738 – 5 October 1805), styled Viscount Brome between 1753 and 1762 and known as The Earl Cornwallis between 1762 and 1792, was a British Army officer and colonial administrator -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris, was signed September 3, 1783 ratified by the Congress of the Confederation on January 14, 1784 and by the King of Great Britain on April 9, 1784 .
