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Friedrich von Steuben and Marquis de Lafayette
They were both American Military officers. they were Major Generals in the revolutionary and continental wars -
French and Indian War
As the French expanded into the Americas, so was Britian. France and Britian had fought in three back to back wars. After six years of peace the conflict rose again. -
Proclamation of 1763
It established a proclamation line along the Appalation which the colonist were not allowed to cross. However colonist looking to expand crossed this line to expand westward toward the Atlantic -
Sugar Act
The sugar act did three things. It halved the duty on foreign made molassed. It placed duties on certian imports that had not been taxed before. Most importantly it provided the colonist to violating the act would be tried in a vice-admiraly court instead of a colonial court -
Stamp Act
This act imposed a tax on documents and printed items such as wills, newspapers, and playing cards. A stamp would be put on those items to show that you paid tax for those items. Then in May colonist tried to defy the act -
Sons of Liberty is Formed
The Sons of Liberty was an organization of American colonists that was created in the Thirteen American Colonies. The secret society was formed to protect the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government. They are best known for undertaking the Boston Tea Party in 1773 in reaction to new taxes. -
Townshed Act
The purpose of the Townshend Acts was to raise revenue in the colonies to pay the salaries of governors and judges so that they would remain loyal to Great Britain, to create a more effective means of enforcing compliance with trade regulations, to punish the province of New York for failing to comply with the 1765 Quartering Act, and to establish the precedent that the British Parliament had the right to tax the colonies. -
Boston Massacre
incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others. The incident was heavily propagandized by leading Patriots -
Tea Act
Its principal objective was to reduce 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
was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773. The demonstrators, some disguised as American Indians, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company, in defiance of the Tea Act of May 10, 1773 -
Intolerable Acts
he acts took away Massachusetts' self-government and historic rights, triggering outrage and resistance in the Thirteen Colonies. They were key developments in the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775.Four of the acts were issued in direct response to the Boston Tea Party of December 1773; the British Parliament hoped these punitive measures would, by making an example of Massachusetts, reverse the trend of colonial resistance to parliamentary authority that had begun with the 1765 Stamp -
First Continental Congress meets
was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies.The Congress was attended by 56 delegates appointed by the legislatures of twelve of the thirteen colonies. Georgia declined to send delegates because they were hoping for British assistance with Native American problems on its frontier and did not want to upset the British. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.[9] They were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge, near Boston. The battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen of its colonies on the mainland of British America. -
Second Continental Congress
The second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. By raising armies, directing strategy, appointing diplomats, and making formal treaties, the Congress acted as the de facto national government of what became the United States. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
On June 13, 1775, the leaders of the colonial forces besieging Boston learned that the British were planning to send troops out from the city to fortify the unoccupied hills surrounding the city, giving them control of Boston Harbour. In response, 1,200 colonial troops under the command of William Prescott stealthily occupied Bunker Hill and Breed's Hill. -
Olive Branch Petition
A final attempt to avoid a full-on war between the Thirteen Colonies, that the Congress represented, and Great Britain. The petition affirmed American loyalty to Great Britain and entreated the king to prevent further conflict. However, the petition was followed by the July 6 Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms, making its success in London improbable. -
Publication of Common Sense
Was a 50 page pamphlet that sold over 500000 copies. It is a powerful shange for many men -
Declaration of Independence
regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. Instead they formed a new nation—the United States of America. John Adams was a leader in pushing for independence, which was unanimously approved on July 2. A committee of five had already drafted the formal declaration, to be ready when Congress voted on independence. The term "Declaration of Independence" is not used in the document itself. -
Saratoga
American troops surrendered at Saratoga. Turned out to be one of the most important events in the war -
Valley Forge
site of the military camp of the American Continental Army over the winter of 1777–1778 during the American Revolutionary War. It is approximately 20 miles (30 km) northwest of Philadelphia. Starvation, disease, malnutrition, and exposure killed nearly 2,500 American soldiers by the end of February 1778. -
British Victories in the South
British victories were at Saratoga, Savannah, Georgia, Charles Town,South Carolina, and New York. -
Early British Victories
British start to beat the Americans -
British Surrender at Yorktown
Lafayette and Washington led there armies to southern Yorktown and surronded British forces -
Early Continental Victories
The Continental army starts to beat the british and take their land back -
Treaty of Paris
signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War. This treaty, along with the separate peace treaties between Great Britain and the nations that supported the American cause: France, Spain and the Dutch Republic, are known collectively as the Peace of Paris.
