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Stamp Act
An act of the British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. -
Townshend Act
The Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. -
Boston Massacre
Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry. -
Intolerable Acts
Theye were the American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament after the Boston Tea party. -
Boston Tea Party
To protest British Parliament's tax on tea and Throw the tea into Boston Harbor -
Second Continental Congress
Was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in Philadelphia. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
Was peripherally involved in the battle, and was the original objective of both the colonial and British troops, though the vast majority of combat took place on the adjacent Breed's Hill. -
Olive Branch Petition
The petition affirmed American loyalty to Great Britain and entreated the king to prevent further conflict. -
Common Sense is published
It inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain in the summer. -
Declaration of Independence
American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain. -
Trenton
George Washington marched the Continental Army. -
Battle at Saratoga
It marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War. -
Yorktown
A combined American force of Colonial and French troops laid seige to the British Army at Yorktown, Virginia. -
Treaty of Paris
King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America, ended the American Revolutionary War.
