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Townshend Act
The taxes on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper, and tea were applied to the colonist -
Boston Massacre
The was an accendal battle between the colonist and british soliders -
Boston Tea Party
After the Intolerable act some colonist went and throw barrels of tea into the harbor -
Intolerable Acts
The colonist where pressed with higher taxes -
Second Continental Congress
Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold lead a successful attack on Fort Ticonderoga -
Battle of Bunker Hill
It was a confidence booster for the americans even tho they lost -
Olive Branch Petition
It was an attempt to allow the rights of the colonists while maintaining their loyalty to the British crown -
Common Sense is published
The first writen letter to openly ask for independence from Great Britain. -
Stamp Act
It was the act that you had to paid taxes on every type of printed paper -
Declaration of Independence
Drafted by Thonas Jefferson it was the nations symolb of liberty and freedom -
Trenton
Geroge Washing crossed the forzen river to attack Hessians on Christmas night -
Battle at Saratoga
It was the turning point in the American Revealotion -
Yorktown
The battle that Cornwallis surrendered to Washington -
Treaty of Paris
Ended the Revolutionary war
