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lead-in to war
Parliamentary taxation of colonies, international trade, and the American Revolution, 1763–1775. The American Revolution was precipitated, in part, by a series of laws passed between 1763 and 1775 that regulating trade and taxes. -
The Stamp Act
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The Stamp Act was repealed
The act was repealed, and the colonies abandoned their ban on imported British goods. -
The Boston Massacre
A group of nine British soldiers shot five people out of a crowd of three or four hundred who were abusing them verbally and throwing various missiles -
intolerable acts
The Coercive Acts of 1774, known as the Intolerable Acts in the American colonies, were a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. -
First Continental Congress convenes.
The First Continental Congress convened in Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, between September 5 and October 26, 1774. Delegates from twelve of Britain's thirteen American colonies met to discuss America's future under growing British aggression. -
Thomas Paine’s Common Sense published
In late 1775 the colonial conflict with the British still looked like a civil war, not a war aiming to separate nations; however, the publication of Thomas Paine’s irreverent pamphlet Common Sense abruptly put independence on the agenda -
Paul Revere’s Ride and the Battles of Lexington and Concord
On the night of April 18, 1775, Paul Revere rode from Charlestown to Lexington (both in Massachusetts) to warn that the British were marching from Boston to seize the colonial armory at Concord. En route, the British force of 700 men was met on Lexington Green by 77 local minutemen and others. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
America won the battle and the brits marched into lexington proceeding to suppress the possibility of rise up through seizing weapons from the colonists -
Patrick Henry’s “Give me liberty or give me death” speech
Convinced that war with Great Britain was inevitable, Virginian Patrick Henry defended strong resolutions for equipping the Virginia militia to fight against the British in a fiery speech in a Richmond church with the famous words, “I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!” -
Battle of Bunker Hill
Breed’s Hill in Charlestown was the primary locus of combat in the misleadingly named Battle of Bunker Hill, which was part of the American siege of British-held Boston. Some 2,300 British troops eventually cleared the hill of the entrenched Americans, but at the cost of more than 40 percent of the assault force. -
Thomas Paine's Common Sense
The main thing for Thomas Paine's Common Sense is independence from england and the creation of democratic republic -
Declaration of Independence
The pronouncement and founding file followed by the second one Continental Congress meeting at Pennsylvania kingdom -
Nathan Hale executed
On September 21, 1776, having penetrated the British lines on Long Island to obtain information, American Capt. Nathan Hale was captured by the British. He was hanged without trial the next day. -
War in the North
In the first eighteen months of armed conflict with the British (the conflict would not become a "war for independence" until July 4, 1776), Washington had begun to create an army and forced the British army in Boston to evacuate that city in March 1776. -
Battle of Valley Forge
A disease killed nearly 2,000 people -
southern campaings
The Southern Campaign of the American Revolution has often been depicted in literature in a glamorous and romantic fashion with emphasis on the exploits of native-son militia in each colony. Granted, brave and daring militia leaders played a crucial role in the War for Independence, but they were part of a much larger and oft-neglected drama-a bloody civil war often pitting neighbor against neighbor -- evident in the South, especially in the Carolina back country. -
aftermath
The Constitution united the states as a single nation, strengthening the federal government and giving it the right to raise revenue, to coin money, and to maintain the military. The states surrendered their sovereignty, and could no longer coin money or raise armies of their own. -
Battle of Yorktown
joint Franco-American land and sea campaign that entrapped a primary British military on a peninsula at Yorktown, Virginia, and pressured its give up -
british attacks on coastal towns
For over six months, beginning in the spring of 1813, the British Navy launched amphibious raids on coastal towns and farms, destroying crops, stealing livestock, and encouraging the enslaved to flee.