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Proclamation of 1763
The proclamation of 1763 was created to stop colonists from moving west to the appalachian mountains onto indian territory. -
Sugar Act
Put a tax on imported sugar, wine, molasses, and coffee. And stoped the colonies from exporting lumber and iron. -
Stamp Act
Colonists had to pay direct tax on paper and had to use stamped paper for all printed materials. -
Townshend Act
Taxed the import of paper, lead, glass, and tea. Set up British courts to enforce the acts. -
Boston Massacre
It was a street fight that consisted of people throwing snowballs, sticks, and rocks. The fight led to the death of five colonists, but the red coats lied and said hundreds of people died. -
Tea Act
Flooded the market with British tea that was cheaper than American tea. -
Boston Tea Party
The colonists from the 13 colonies was so mad about taxation without representation so they dressed up like indians and went to England and threw they’re expensive tea into the harbor. -
Intolerable Acts
closed Bostons port to all trade except with England and it expanded the power of the british government. -
First Continental Congress
A meeting of Delegates form twelve of the thirteen colonies who met early in the American revolution. All of the colonies except Georgia sent delegates. -
Edenton Tea Party
The Edenton Tea Party was one of the earliest organized women's political actions in United States history. Mrs. Penelope Barker organized, at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth King, fifty one women in Edenton, North Carolina. -
Paul Revere
Paul Revere was the man who knew that the british was coming and warned the rebals he trusted by telling them door to door. He did not scream "THE BRITISH IS COMING" he simply road his horse with two fellow rebals to tell the other rebals the news. -
Battle at Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolution. -
Mecklenburg Resolves
A list of statements from Charlotte, Mecklenberg County, North Carolina. It was drafted in the month following at Lexington and Concord. -
Continental Army
The Continental Army was formed after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War by the colonies that became the United States of America. -
Bunker Hill
The battle on bunker hill happened in the early revolutionary war. The British defeated the Americans. but the battle was not on bunker hill. -
Second Continental Congress
A convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting soon after warfare, the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge
The Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge was a battle of the American Revolutionary War fought near Wilmington. -
Halifax Resolves
The Halifax Resolves is the name later given to a resolution adopted by the Fourth Provincial Congress of the Province of North Carolina. -
Declaration of Independence
The statement adopted by the Continental Congress meeting, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of Britain and king Gorge III's rule. -
Battle of Ticonderoga
A British approach that forced a small French garrison to withdraw. A Capture of Fort Ticonderoga, a surprise capture of the fort by Americans. A British army approach that forced the Continental Army to withdraw. -
Winter at Valley Forge
Where the American Continental Army spent the winter during the American Revolutionary War. The men didn't have warm clothes or good shoes, basically they wasn't ready for winter. some of the men even died during the winter. -
Battle of Kings Mountain
Was a war made up of rednecks and redcoats. The rednecks won the war against the redcoats because they fought how they was showed by the native americans. they hid behinde rocks and trees, they completely surounded the british army and had no where to go so when the captain died the redcoats left standing surendered. -
Battle at Guilford Courthouse
The British won but their loss was so great that if they had another thing like this they would die.
The British won but ther loss was so great that annother victory like that would have wiped them out. -
Battle of Yorktown
The last battle of the Revolutionary War. George Washington won against the British. -
Treaty of Paris
Samuel Adams, Ben Franklin and John Jay went to Paris France to negotiate the treaty with the french and british. The goal was to have peace between America and Great Britiain.
