American Revolution

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  • The Sugar Act

    Act enacted by Parliament that severely limited the trade that could be conducted by the colonists
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  • The Stamp Act

    First serious attempt by Parliament to exert control over the colonies, created additional taxes for paper goods

  • Boston Massacre

    Conflict between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to anger colonists

  • Tea Act/Boston Tea Party

    Act by Parliament that saturated the colonial tea market with the unsold tea from the East India Trade Company and served as one of the sparks that furthered the road to revolution. Under the cover of darkness, several colonists threw dozens of crates of tea into the Boston Harbor

  • Intolerable Acts

    Punitive acts legislated by parliament with the goal of punishing the colonists for the Boston Tea Party

  • First Continental Congress

  • Midnight Ride of Paul Revere

  • Second Continental Congress

  • George Washington named Commander in Chief of the Continental Army

  • Battle of Bunker Hill

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Washington Crosses the Delaware

    General Washington crosses the Delaware River on Christmas night to capture Trenton from the Hessians

  • Washington's Army retires to Valley Forge

  • French Alliance Signed

  • "Mad" Anthony Wayne Captures Stony Point, NY for the Americans

  • British Capture Charleston

  • Washington Names Nathanial Greene Leader of the Southern Army

  • Articles of Confederation Adopted

  • Cornwallis Surrenders to French and American Forces at Yorktown

  • Treaty of Paris