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Boston Massacre
a group of american colonist gathered at the custom house in boston and started to taunt the British soldiers that were guarding the building or between the patriot group and the soldiers -
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The Boston Tea Party
It was a protest from the sons of liberty they dumped tea in the Boston Harbor that night to lower the tea taxes. -
Paul Revere Ride
Hundreds of British troops started marching from Boston all the way to Concord and then Paul Revere and other riders sounded the Alarm that the British troops where coming. -
The Battle of Lexington and Concord
It was the frirst arangement of kick off of the Revolutionary war near Boston.Theyre had already been tension between the people living in the 13 colonies and the British authorities. And that was when everything broke out. -
Thomas paine Publishes common sense
Thomas Paine postes or poblishs his pamphlet named the Common Sense setting forth his argument against the American Independence. -
independence day
In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Continental Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence, which proclaims the independence of the United States of America from Great Britain and its king. The declaration came 442 days after the first volleys of the American Revolution were fired at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts and marked an ideological expansion of the conflict that would eventually encourage France’s intervention on behalf of the Patriots. -
Thomas Paine publishes the american Crisis
These are the times that try men’s souls; the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. -
Washington Wins First Major U.S victory at Trenton
At approximately 8 a.m. on the morning of December 26, 1776, General George Washington’s Continental Army reaches the outskirts of Trenton, New Jersey, and descends upon the unsuspecting Hessian force guarding the city. Trenton’s 1,400 Hessian defenders were still groggy from the previous evening’s Christmas festivities and had underestimated the Patriot threat after months of decisive British victories throughout New York. The troops of the Continental Army quickly overwhelmed the German defens -
Franco-American alliances signed
During the American War for Independence, representatives from the United States and France sign the Treaty of Amity and Commerce and the Treaty of Alliance in Paris. -
Articles of confederation adopted
After 16 months of debate, the Continental Congress, sitting in its temporary capital of York, Pennsylvania, agrees to adopt the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union on this day in 1777. Not until March 1, 1781, would the last of the 13 states, Maryland, ratify the agreement. -
Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown
in 1781 the British General Charles Cornwallissurrendered to the 8,000 British soldiers and seamen to a French and American force inYorktown, Virginia, wich brought the American revolution to an end. -
The treaty of Paris is signed
The American Revolution officially comes to an end when representatives of the United States, Great Britain, Spain and France sign the Treaty of Paris on this day in 1783. The signing signified America’s status as a free nation, as Britain formally recognized the independence of its 13 former American colonies, and the boundaries of the new republic were agreed upon: Florida north to the Great Lakes and the Atlantic coast west to the Mississippi River. -
The U.S constitution was signed
The Constitution of the United States of America is signed by 38 of 41 delegates present at the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. Supporters of the document waged a hard-won battle to win ratification by the necessary nine out of 13 U.S. states.
