American Revolution Part 1

By ccc1999
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    French and Indian War

    he French and Indian War comprised the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War of 1754–1763

  • Treaty of Paris

    Treaty of Paris
    Ended the 7 year war.

  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763
    Prohibited all settling west of the Appalachian mountains.

  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act
    Taxes on mollasses and sugar imposed by the British

  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    Required all papers be stamped to be considered legal.

  • Declaratory Act

    Declaratory Act
    Repeal of Stamp act

  • Townshend Revenue Acts

    Townshend Revenue Acts
    Duties on tea, glass, lead, paper and paint to help pay for the administration of the colonies,

  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    Five cillvilians killed by British troops

  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians dump 9,000 euros of East India Company tea into the Boston harbor.

  • The Tea Act

    The Tea Act
    Parliament exempted its tea from import duties and allowed the Company to sell its tea directly to the colonies.

  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts
    Four measures which stripped Massachusetts of self-government and judicial independence

  • Quartering act of 1774;

    Quartering act of 1774;
    British troops to be given food and shelter at the expense of the American colonists

  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress
    Colonial delegates meet to organise opposition to the Intolerable Acts.

  • Second Continental Congress

    Second Continental Congress
    managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence,

  • Patrick Henry’s “Give Me Liberty or Give Me death” speech

    Patrick Henry’s “Give Me Liberty or Give Me death” speech
    To avoid interference from Lieutenant

  • Battles of Lexington and Concord

    Battles of Lexington and Concord
    First engagements of the Revolutionary War between British troops and the Minutemen

  • George Washington named Commander in Chief

    George Washington named Commander in Chief
    was commissioned "commander-in-chief of the army of the United Colonies of all the forces raised and to be raised by them

  • Olive Branch Petition

    Olive Branch Petition
    Congress endorses a proposal asking for recognition of American rights, the ending of the Intolerable Acts in exchange for a cease fire

  • Thomas Paine writes “Common Sense”

    Thomas Paine writes “Common Sense”
    advocated independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies

  • Declaration of Independence;

    Declaration of Independence;
    statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776,