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The French and Indian War
War from 1754 to 1763 between France (with allied Indian nation0 and Britian and Its colonists, For control of Eastern North america -
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American Revolution
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Royal Proclamation of 1763
Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, in which it forbade settlers from settling past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains -
Treaty of Paris
The treaty that ended the revolutionary war between The colonies and Great Britian. -
sugar act
Sugar Act was also known as the American Revenue Act which was also American Duties Act. It was passed by the British Parliament in April 1764 to raise funds -
stamp act
The tax was put on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ships papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed. -
Stamp act congress
Also known as first continental congress.The first gathering of elected representatives from several of the American colonies to devise a protest against new British taxation -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a fight that occurred on March 5, 1770 between a"patriot mob throwing snowballs stones, and stick, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed -
Patrick Henry "give me liberty"
attorney and politician who became known as an orator during the movement for independence in Virginia in the 1770. A Founding Father, And said "give me liberty or give me death. -
Boston Tea party
officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain so a group of angry colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor. -
first continental congress
It was called in response to the passage of the Coercive Acts. Members from 12 colonies meet to discuss it. -
midnight ride of paul revere
when Paul revere was sent out with other riders to warn lexington and concord that the regulars were coming. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
were the first military fights of the American Revolutionary War -
Fort Ticonderoga
where the green mountain boys won the fort and took the cannons from there and brought them to dorchester heights in Boston. -
Second continental congress
managed the colonial war effort, and moved towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 -
Battle of Bunker Hill
colonist were forced to surrender a strategic site just outside Boston when they ran out of ammunition. -
"common sense" published
presented the American colonists with an argument for freedom from British rule at a time when the question of seeking independence was still undecided -
British evacuated Boston
evacuated because they were surrounded on all sides and they didnt want there navy ships to be destroyed. -
declaration of independance announced
a statement adopted by the Continental Congress, which announced that the thirteen colonies, at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, no longer a part of the British Empire -
Townshend Acts
the Revenue Act of 1767, the Indemnity Act, the Commissioners of Customs Act, the Vice Admiralty Court Act, and the New York Restraining Act. Are the five laws under them. -
John Paul Jones defeats the Serapis
the United States' first well-known naval fighter in the American Revolution. Although he made enemies among America's political elites, his actions in British waters during the Revolution earned him an international reputation which persists to this day -
The Crisis published
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washington captures Trenton
Washington and his troops suprised the Hessians the day after christmas. Really turned the momentum in the war -
winter at valley forge, PA
They settled there for the winter after there last major battle.And he felt that this place was a secure location for them to set up camp. -
British Defeat at Saratoga
served as a turing point in the war, as the continental army defeated "gentleman Jonny" Burgoyne -
Benedict Arnolds plans found out
he was in command of the fort at West Point, New York and plotted to surrender it to the British forces. After the plot was exposed, he was commissioned into the British Army as a brigadier general. -
Cornwallis surrenders
At Yorktown Virginia Lord Cornwallis surrendered to the continental army after a 3 week seige.