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Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris ended the war and essentially ended the Anglo- French imperial competition in North America. The treaty forced Franch to give Great Britain control of Canada and all land east of the Mississippi River. Additionally, the treaty gave the British government control of all of Britain's American colonies. The colonists objected to the loss of control over their own affairs, and some Americans began to think about an American Revolution. -
Proclamation 1763
Issued by King George III following 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. It was passed so that no wars would start between the Native Americans and Britain because they wanted The Natives as allies. The colonists were angry that they were limited to where they could settle, but most of them DID listen to the law. -
Sons of Liberty
The group was formed to protect the rights of the colonists and to take to the streets against the abuses of the British government. They are best known for undertaking the Boston Tea Party in 1773 in reaction to the Tea Act, which led to the Intolerable Acts. -
Stamp Act
The stampact passed by the british parliament, required the colonists to print newspapers, legal documents, playing cards, etc. on paper bearing special stamps. Buying the stamped paper was equivalent of paying a tax. The stamp act was located throughout the colonies. -
Quartering Acts
This act outlines the locations and conditions in which British soilders are to find room and board the American colonies. The act required the colonies to house British soilders in barracks provided by the colonies. -
Townshend Act
The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed by the parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. The acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the program. -
Boston Massacre
This was the killing of five colonists by British regulars. It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts. Also known as a street fight between a patriot mob and a squad of British soilders. -
Committes of Correspondence
These were shadow governments organized by the Patriot leaders of the Thirteen Colonies on the eve of the American Revolution. They coordinated responses to Britain and shared their plans; by 1773 they had emerged as shadow governments, superseding the colonial legislature and royal officials. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts was the Patriot name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament, in 1774 relating to Massachusetts after the Boston Tea party. In Great Britain, these laws were referred to as the Coercive Acts. These laws were punishments put on by King George III. He came up with laws so as to punish the colonists for dumping tea at the Boston Tea Party. The acts were also meant to discourage colonies from opposing the British rule. -
Boston Tea Party
Contray too Currier's depiction, few of the men dumping the tea into the harbor were actually disguised as indians. The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from twelve colonies (Georgia was not present) that met at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
Lexington and Concord
These battles kicked off the American Revoluntary War. Tensions had been building up for many years between residents of the 13 colonies and the British authorites, particularly in Massachusetts. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the 13 colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. When the second Continental Congress convened, the battles of Lexington and Concord had already been fought, and an informally organised American army was besieging General Gage's troops in Boston. -
Common Sense
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain in the summer of 1776. It explained the advantages of and the need for immediate independence. -
Declaration of Independence
This is a statement adopted by the Contential Congress which announced that the 13 colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as individual states, and no longer a part of the British empire. -
Washington crossing the Delaware
Was the first move in a surprise attack organized by George Washington against the Hessian forces in Trenton, New Jersey. Washington led a column of Continental Army troops across the icy Delaware River in a logistically challenging and dangerous operation. -
Battle of Saratoga
Conclusively decided the fate of British General John Burgoyne's army in the American War of Independence and are generally regarded as a turning point in the war. Two battles were fought eighteen days apart on the same ground. -
Valley Forge
In Pennsylvania, was the cite of the military camp of the American Continental Army over the winter of 1777-1778 during the American Revoluntary War. -
Battle of Yorktown
The Battle of Yorktown was one of the last battles of the American Revolutionary War. The engagement lasted 20 days and ended with British Gen. Charles Cornwallis's surrender. Washington realized that it was time to act. He ordered Marquis de Lafayette and an American army of 5,000 troops to block Cornwallis' escape from Yorktown by land while the French naval fleet blocked the British escape by sea. -
Treaty of Paris 1783
It ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain on one side and the United States of America and its allies on the other. -
Surrender of Cornwallis
The Surrender of Lord Cornwallis is an oil painting by John Trumbull. The painting was completed in 1820, and hangs in the rotunda of the United States Capitol in Washington, D. C.
