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Treaty Of Paris
It Ends the power of the French in North America -
Pontiac's Rebellion
Attack every British Fort West of the Appalachian Mountains -
Proclamation Act
No One was to live west of the Appalachian Mountains -
Stamp Act
No Taxation without representation -
Quartering Act
This requires all colonists to house British soldiers and provide them with supplies -
Writs of Assistance
Made it legal for British soldiers to search any property looking goods -
Declaratory Act
British Government had supreme authority to govern the colonies -
Townshed Acts
taxing goods before they got into the colonies -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between the colonists and soldiers throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks. -
Coersive Acts
The Coercive Acts are names used to describe a series of laws relating to Britain's colonies in North America and passed by the British Parliament in 1774. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies -
Olive Branch Petition
declared the Colonies' loyalty to the King George III and said that the Colonists only wanted peace between them and England. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies -
Battle of Bunker Hill
The British defeated the Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill in Massachusetts. -
Olive Branch Petition
The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by the Second Continental Congress in a final attempt to avoid a full-on war between Great Britain and the thirteen colonies represented in that Congress. -
Common Sense
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. -
Common Sense
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies -
Declaration of Independence
the formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain. -
Declaration of Independence
A declaration of independence or declaration of statehood is an assertion by a defined territory that it is independent and constitutes a state. -
Battle of Trenton
The Battle of Trenton was a small but pivotal battle during the American Revolutionary War which took place in Trenton, New Jersey -
Battle of Trenton
the Battle of Trenton was a small but pivotal battle during the American Revolutionary War which took place on the morning of in Trenton, New Jersey -
Battle of Saratoga
A major battle of the Revolutionary War fought in northern New York state. -
Battle of Saratoga
The Battles of Saratoga marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War -
Winter at Valley Forge
was the military camp 18 miles northwest of Philadelphia where the American Continental Army spent the winter during the American Revolutionary War. -
Winter at Valley Forge
was the military camp 18 miles (29 km) northwest of Philadelphia where the American Continental Army spent the winter during the American Revolutionary War. -
Battle of Yorktown
The Siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown, the Surrender at Yorktown, -
Treat of Paris of 1783
negotiated between the United States and Great Britain, ended the revolutionary war and recognized American independence.