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Revolutionary Review
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Treaty of Paris
The British win the French and Indian war. France cedes North American territory -
Proclamation line 1763
Forbade all settlers from settling past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains -
Sugar Act
Reduced tax on molasses but reinforced the implementation (stopped smuggling) of the tax which angered colonists who were used to a system of Salutary Neglect. -
Stamp Act
A tax on all paper documents in the colonies. Papers must have official stamp to prove that they have paid the tax. -
Quartering Act
Citizens were forced to provide shelter for British soldiers in their homes that were stationed in their colonies. It is their legal responsibility to provide shelter and supplies. -
Townshend Act
Taxing all of the important goods such as paper, lead, tea, glass, and paint. Put in new taxes on these items. The colonies don't see any of the money, they go directly to England and see no results. Generating revenue for England. -
Boston Massacre
Colonists gathered and taunted the British soldiers and an altercation took place and resulted in the death of 5 colonists. -
Tea Act
Reduced the massive surplus of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive. -
Boston Tea Party
People disguised as American Indians, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company. -
Intolerable Acts
Series of laws passed by the British Parliament after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. -
1st Continental Congress
12 of the 13 colonies send representatives to gather and discuss the Intolerable Acts. 1st time the colonists come together, like a government, to act together -
Lexington and Concord
British armed force of about 700 men marched from Boston to destroy American military weapons at the town of Concord, Massachusetts. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
First great battle of the Revolutionary War; it was fought near Boston in June 1775. The British drove the Americans from their fort at Breed's Hill to Bunker Hill, but only after the Americans had run out of gunpowder. -
Olive Branch Petition
last ditch effort of American colonists to make peace with the British crown. The king refused to even listen to it. -
Common Sense
Thomas Paine wrote this to convince people to keep fighting in the revolution -
2nd Continental Congress
convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting -
Declaration of Independence
Establishing the United States as a nation, adopted on July 4, 1776. The declaration was ordered and approved by the Continental Congress and written largely by Thomas Jefferson. -
Crisis
Arguing for independence from Britain -
Battle of Princeton/ Trenton
Battles that greatly improved the morale and unity of the colonial army and militias. -
Battle of Saratoga
turning point of the Revolutionary War. The scope of the victory is made clear by a few key facts: On October 17, 1777, 5,895 British and Hessian troops surrendered their arms -
Battle of Camden
major victory for the British in the Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War -
Battle of Kings Mountain
the Patriot militia defeated the Loyalist militia commanded by British Major Patrick Ferguson -
Battle of Cowpens
victory by the Continental Army forces under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan in the Southern campaign of the American Revolutionary War over the British Army led by Colonel Banastre Tarleton. -
Battle of Yorktown
last battle of the Revolutionary War, fought in 1781 near the seacoast of Virginia. There the British general Lord Cornwallis surrendered his army to General George Washington. -
Treaty of Paris 1783
signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America on 3 September 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War.