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Enlightenment
The enlightenment was a movement by participants known as the "age of reason". the enlightenment started because of the "thirty years' war". -
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French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was a war between British America and New France that lasted nine years, in order to decide if France or Britain would have power in North America they went to war. New France lost to Britain. Britain then gain territory in North America. -
Stamp Act of 1765
The Stamp Act was a parliament that passed to help pay for British troops. Due to this act the colonist had to pay a tax on a playing card, paper, or a document. (http://ap.gilderlehrman.org/resource/stamp-act-1765#:~:text=On%20March%2022%2C%201765%2C%20the,%2C%20documents%2C%20and%20playing%20cards.) -
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Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts forced China to import some of their goods to the colonies. This lead to boycotting and colonist feeling like this act was unfair. The Townshend Act was named after Charles Townshed, a British politician -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre took place when British decided to shoot at the american colonist because British decided to place taxes on many American goods, and the American didn't like the idea. in result of the Boston Massacre, 5 people were left dead. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a huge disagreement with the American colonists. They didn't like the idea about "taxation without representation". The American colonists decided to dump tea into the harbor. -
Intolerable Acts
In retaliation for colonial resistance to British rule during the winter of 1773–74, the British Parliament enacted four measures that became known as the Intolerable or Coercive Acts: the Boston Port Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Administration of Justice Act, and Quartering Act. Rather than intimidating Massachusetts and isolating it from the other colonies, the oppressive acts became the justification for convening the First Continental Congress later in 1774. -
First Continental Congress convenes
Called by the Committees of Correspondence in response to the Intolerable Acts, the First Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia. Fifty-six delegates represented all the colonies except Georgia. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
Breed’s Hill in Charlestown was the primary locus of combat in the misleadingly named Battle of Bunker Hill, which was part of the American siege of British-held Boston. Some 2,300 British troops eventually cleared the hill of the entrenched Americans, but at the cost of more than 40 percent of the assault force. The battle was a moral victory for the Americans. -
Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga
Moving south from Canada in summer 1777, a British force under Gen. John Burgoyne captured Fort Ticonderoga (July 5) before losing decisively at Bennington, Vermont (August 16), and Bemis Heights, New York (October 7). His forces depleted, Burgoyne surrendered at Saratoga. -
France and the United States form an alliance
The French had secretly furnished financial and material aid to the Americans since 1776, but with the signing in Paris of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce and the Treaty of Alliance, the Franco-American alliance was formalized. France began preparing fleets and armies to enter the fight but did not formally declare war on Britain until June 1778. -
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. -
Siege of Yorktown
After winning a costly victory at Guilford Courthouse, North Carolina, on March 15, 1781, Lord Cornwallis entered Virginia to join other British forces there, setting up a base at Yorktown. Washington’s army and a force under the French Count de Rochambeau placed Yorktown under siege, and Cornwallis surrendered his army of more than 7,000 men on October 19, 1781.(https://www.britannica.com/list/vietnam-war-timeline) -
Treaty of Paris ends the war
After the British defeat at Yorktown the land battles in America largely died out but the fighting continued at sea, chiefly between the British and America’s European allies which came to include Spain and the Netherlands. The military verdict in North America was reflected in the preliminary Anglo American peace treaty of 1782, which was included in the Treaty of Paris of 1783. By its terms Britain recognized the independence of the United States with generous boundaries, -
Treaty of Paris Signed
The Treaty of Paris was signed to end the American Revolution war and to grant land to the western. The Treaty of Paris was signed by representatives of Britain at the Hotel d'york.
