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Stamp Act
It was a new tax imposed on all american colonists that required them to pay tax on ship papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, and even playing cards. -
Gaspee Affair
A local vessel out of newport beached william duddington's gaspee ship for tresspassing in the naragansett bay. -
Committies of Correspondence established
They were shadow governments that started to plan independence from the british and the governments started after the boston massacre. -
coercive acts
were introduced in 1774 by the new government of Lord North who acted with the direct encouragement of king George III. they were a major factor contributing to the outbreak of the American Revolution. The british thought these acts would stop the colonial resistance but the colonists thought these were in violation iof there rights -
First continental congress
Reprensentatives from each colony except georgia met in philadelphia. The represenatatives came to discuss their responce to the british intolerable acts. The purpose of the meeting was not to seek independence from britian. -
Paul Revere's ride
Paul Revere was sent for by Dr. Joseph Warren and instructed to ride to lexington, massachusetts, to warn Samuel Adams and John hancock that british troops were marching to arrest them. he also warned other colonial citizens that "the british are coming" -
Battles of lexington and concord
It was the battle where the first shots were fired to start the revolution. The british general Thomas Gage sent 700 soldiers to destroy the colonists gun and ammunition -
British evacuate boston
Following the Battle of Lexington and Concord, the patriots had the British blocked off in Boston. It was one of the biggest victories for the americans. -
second continental congress
Established the militia as the continental army to represent the thirteen states. They elected george washington as commander and chief of the continental army. -
Battle of Bunker hill
took place during the siege of boston early in the revolutionary war. the leaders of the colonial forces learned that british generals were planning on sending troops to the unocuppied hills surrounding boston. after a while there were a great amount of british casualties -
Olive Branch Petition
This was a letter sent to king george III to try to come up with a agreement on independence with britian. -
Proclamation for Supressing Rebelion and sedition
It was the responce king george sent to the americans to reduce the rebellion and revolution from the americans -
Boston Tea Party
On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor. The incident remains an iconic event of American history, and other political protests often refer to it. -
Common Sense Published
it was published during the american revelution. It had the largest sale and circulation of any book in american history. It presented the american colonists with an argument for freedom from british rule at a time when the question of independence was still undecided. -
Declaration of Independence
announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire
