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French and Indian War
It was a seven year war which was almost just only britain and france Because they wanted the new world territory. -
The Sugar Act
It was a law passed by the British Parliament setting taxes on molasses and sugar imported by the colonies -
The Stamp Act
It was a law that taxed printed goods, including playing cards, newspaper, documents and more. -
Townshend Acts
A tax that the British Parliament placed on leads, glass, paint and tea -
The Boston Massacre
The first bloodshed of the American Revolution, as British guards at the Boston Customs House opened fire on a crowd killing five Americans -
the boston tea party
protest against increased tea prices in which colonists dumped british tea into boston harbor -
First Continental Congress
September 1774, delegates from twelve colonies sent representatives to Philadelphia to discuss a response to the Intolerable Acts -
Intolerable Acts
series of laws passed in 1774 to punish Boston for the Tea Party -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
Hudreds of british soldiers they all marched to boston, and a confrotation where the fight on the lexington town green -
Battle of Bunker Hill
About 2,300 british troops sooner or later cleared the hill of the entrenched americans. but at the cost of more than 40 percent of the assault force. -
Patrick Henry’s speech
“Give me liberty or give me death” They were convinced that the war with Great Britain was inevitable. Patrick Henry defended strong resolutions for equipping the Virginia militia to fight against the British -
Thomas Paine's Common Sense
A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that claimed the colonies had a right to be an independent nation -
Declaration of Independence
Signed in 1776 by US revolutionaries; it declared the United States as a free state. -
Nathan Hale executed
It penetrated the British lines along the Long Island to obtain information, American Capt. Nathan Hale was captured by the British.Then he was hanged without having a trial -
Washington crosses the Delaware
They were forced to leave new york city abandoned and eventually drive across new jersey with the british. Washington and the Continental Army struck back on Christmas night by stealthily crossing the ice-strewn Delaware River, surprising the Hessian garrison at Trenton at dawn, and taking some 900 prisoners. -
Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga
They were moving from the south of canada a British force under Gen. John Burgoyne captured Fort Ticonderoga before losing decisively at Bennington, Vermont, and Bemis Heights, New York . -
Battle of Valley Forge
Nearly 2,000 people died due to diseases.It occurred during the third year of the war. -
Washington winters at Valley Forge
Following failures at the Battles of Brandywine and Germantown, Washington and 11,000 regulars took up winter quarters at Valley Forge, 22 miles northwest of British-occupied Philadelphia -
Benedict Arnold turns traitor
Having fought valiantly in a number of battles earlier in the war, American Gen. Benedict Arnold conspired with the British to surrender the fort at West Point, New York, that he commanded. When John André, the British army officer with whom Arnold had negotiated, was hanged as a spy after he was captured and the plot revealed, Arnold took sanctuary with the British. -
Battle of Yorktown
it was to prove the engagement of the american revolutionary.The birth of new nation