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French and Indian War
The French and Indian were allied together to fight against English over the Ohio River valley. The fight occurs in the woods. -
King George III Proclamation
After the French and Indian War, the French given up and English Government decided to drew a line form New York to Georgia and say that the colonists can't cross that line. This Proclamation anger the colonists. -
Sugar Act
A law passed by the British Parliament in 1764 raising duties on foreign refined sugar imported by the colonies so as to give British sugar growers in the West Indies a monopoly on the colonial market. -
Stamp Act
It was the first direct tax imposed by Britain on its American colonies. The Act was created to help cover the cost of maintaining troops in the colonies. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre, called the Incident on King Street by the British. Armed British Army soldiers killed five civilian men and injured six others. -
Committees of Correspondence meet
The Committees of Correspondence were shadow governments organized by the Patriot leaders of the Thirteen Colonies on the eve of the American Revolution. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
The first shot of the Revolution. Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge, near Boston. -
Declaration of Independent
John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson were chosen to write the Declaration of Independent. -
John Paul Jones victory
American navy was no match for English fleet at that time, but John Paul Jones, the commander of American ship "Bonhomme Richard" fought the English ship "Serapis", his ship was sank by the British, but John Paul Jones and his crew climb up the English ship and take over it. -
Battle of Yorktown
The Battle of Yorktown was the last major engagement of the American Revolution.
