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American Revolution

By roberttalbott15

  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    Tax on Sugar which in turn raised the prices on any goods which contained sugar.

  • Townshed Act

    Townshed Act
    An Indirect Tax that raised the prices o all imported goods.

  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    A group of colonials were harrasing some British troops and they cornered them in an ally. The scared British soldiers fired upon the colonials killing five and injuring 6.

  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    It was when the colonists threw tons of tea over ships and into the Boston Bay. When the night was over at least a million dollars in tea were thrown overboard.

  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts
    It was an act that removed the colonial positions in the government and replaced them with British loyalist. It also closed down the Boston port.

  • Second Continentual Congress

    Second Continentual Congress
    This congress meeting was where the delagates wrote and signed the constution and this was the meeting were the delagates sent the olive branch

  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    Battle of Bunker Hill
    It was the bloodist battle in the Revolutionary war and it took place outside of Boston. The British ended up winning however due to the fact that the colonists ran out of ammo. The british took huge casuluties which raised colonial moral.

  • Olive Branch Petition

    Olive Branch Petition
    This document between the clonists and the king was a last resort to try an avoid war.

  • Common Sense is Published

    Common Sense is Published
    This was a document that was published in a language that the common people could understand and it listed the reasons why the colonists should rebel.

  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence
    This is the date that the document that stated that we were declaring independence form England was signed

  • Trenton

    Trenton
    The first battle that the Americans win.They win by sneak attacking the British mercanaries on Christmas night.

  • Battle of Saratoga

    Battle of Saratoga
    It was the battle that convinced the french to join the colonists to join the fight against the British.

  • Yorktown

    Yorktown
    The last battle of the revolutionary war in which the american army trapped the british at yorktown and attacked them on foot while the french navy reined terror on the British troops for the sea.

  • Second Treaty of Paris

    Second Treaty of Paris
    This was the treaty that ended the Revolutionary war. It also declared that the colonists were their own country and that they owned up to the Mississippi.
    http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/treaty-of-paris/videos