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The Stamp Act
Taxs on legal documents that requested that a stamp be bought for all legal documents and other items such as playing cards, newspaper, etc. -
Townshend Act
When parliament puts duties on imported goods such as tea, glass, paper, and paints -
Boston Massacre
It happened when a drunken mob harrassed british soldiers who then firesd their muskets pointblank into the crowd killing, wounding, and injuring a total of 11 people -
Boston Tea Party
Colonists disguised themselves as mohawk indians and went abord 3 ships and dumped out 45 tons of tea. -
Intolerable Acts
A series of laws passed by parliament. -
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2nd Continental Congress
Many of the same delegates from the 1st congress returned and newer delegates such as Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, and Thomas Jefferson. (WILL NOT LET ME ADD PICTURE) -
Battle of Bunker Hill
The British army attacked, they launched 3 assults on the patriots. on the third act the british captured Bunker and Breeds Hill. -
Olive Branch Petition
The last ditch effort of American colonists to make peace with British crown. -
Common Sense
An important document that exposed both levels of the revolution. -
Declaraction of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is the usual name of a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. The Declaration of Independence states the reasons of independence of the colonies and why the action is justified. -
Battle Of Trenton
A miitary conflict between Great Britain and American forces. -
Battle of Saratoga
In mid September General Gates attacked Burgoyne's forces, in October Burgoyne surrendered his army. -
Battle of Yorktown
Washingtons troops joined Lafayette's troops. Cornwallis is left to face an army twice the size of his own. -
Treaty of Paris
Ended the Revolutionary War.
