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The Boston Tea Party
It was a maximum point in the resistance of the Tea Act, which also took place in 1773. -
The Intolerable Acts
They were six acts that were created by the Prime Minister of Britain Lord North in retaliation to the Boston Tea Party. Included the Impartial Administration of Justice Act, Massachusets Bay Regulating Act, Boston Port Act, Quartering Act, and the Quebec Act -
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The American Revolution
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The First Continental Congress
It was a gathering of the delegates from twelve North American colonies that was held in Philadelphia to discuss the Intolerable Acts made by the British Parliament. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The battles were the fisrt aggressions of the Revolutionary War. It was where the "shot heard around the world" took place. Paul Revere was also there to warn them of British approach. -
The Second Continental Congress
It was agathering of delagates that discussed war efforts and created The Declaration of Independence. -
The Battle of Bunker Hill
It was an American defeat caused by a British assault on the hills ajacent to Boston, where the Continental Army was taking refuge. -
George Washington takes command over the Continental Army
He takes rule over an army mostly consisting of unskilled, and undiciplined soldiers. Only a few of them were skilled soldiers and they weren't given much supplies. -
Americans lose Fort Ticonderoga
Also called the Capture of Fort Ticonderoga, this battle took place near Lake Chaplain, in the state of New York. One thing that is interesting about this battle in perticular is how hardly any shots were fired and almost no one was killed, the British came and the Americans left, not wanting to create a bloody battle. -
Common Sense
It was a fourty-seven page phamphelet published anonymously by Thomas Paine which talked about how the Americans need to fight back whatever happens and to pull through past every struggle because if you don't, Britian will destroy the peacful life were trying to build here. -
Declaration of Independence is ratified
It basically said the because of all of the things that Britian has done to us that it is our responsibility to take action against them by breaking off from them to create a new country which will unhold the rights of the people living there. -
British troops in New York Harbor
On August first, 1776, around thirty thousand British troops land in the New York Harbor. -
The Battle of Long Island
It was the first real battle between Britain and America and was the first British victory. Washington sucessfully kept his troops from sustaining heavy losses by retreating to Manhattan. -
Benjamin Franklin Asks Help from France
He went there to say the buisness of America in the court of France. -
Battle of Trenton
It was when the Continental Army attacked the Hessians camped out in Trenton. After a short battle, the american troops captured almost all of them. -
South Caroline falls to British
It took place near the end of the Revolutionary War. It lasted around six weeks of siege until finally Major General Benjamin Lincoln surrendered to the five thousand british troops. -
Washington Defeated at Brandywine
The battle occured near Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania during the attempt by the British to take over Philadelphia. After a hard fight, the British won and took over Philadelphia. -
Philadelphia Campaign
It was an initiative to take over Philadelphia, which at the time was the capital of America and the seat of the Second Continental Congress. One of the battles that took place during th Philadelphia Campaign was the Battle of Brandywine, which allowed the British to enter Philadelphia and take control, forcing the Continental Army to flee ot Vally Forge. -
Battle of Saratoga
It is mostly regarded as the turning point in the war because although France had already been giving America supplies and food, they weren't formally in the war until this battle. Same with Spain, they also became our ally and turned the Revolutionary War into a global conflict. -
Articles of Confederation adopted
It was an agreement between the thirteen colonies that served as the first written plan for government in the United States of America. It included thirteen articles that addressed sates having their own seperated rules, establishing the name for the country and how it wil be based upon the common defense of the people and the security of their liberties. -
Winter at Valley Forge
After the Continental army got jousted from Philadelphia, they had to take refuge at Valley Forge for the winter, which was arond eighteen miles from the capital. At Valley Forge, there was shortages of everything, from clothing to food to medicine and the soldiers suffered from exposure to the elements with hardly any food and shelter. -
France signs treaty of alliance with America
It was a defensive alliance between France and America that provided military support in case of British attack. France was an obvious choice for an ally because of their hate for Britian and they supported a revolution because of the one that happened in their own country. -
John Paul Jones captures Serapis
Commodore John Paul Jones sailes to circle the British isles and encounters the HMS Serapis and attacks. After about a four hour battle, he finally captures her and boards the HMS Serapis because of the heavy losses his boat, the Bonhomme Richard, has sustained. -
Elizabeth Freeman sues Massachusttes for Freedom
She was one of the first black slaves im Massachusetts to sue the state Supreme Court and win with a verdict that slavery was illegal. -
Siege of Yorktown
It was a battle between the British, and the Americans/French that was the ending of the Revolutionary War because after George Washingtion and his soldiers won the battle and General Lord Cornwallis, the British government began to negotiate an end to the long, seven year war. -
Treaty of Paris
It was the end to the Revolutionary War. It was very allowing of giving the Americans much space for expansion.
