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French and Indian War
The British colonies were in war with the French and Indians for land. After the war Colonist wouldn't be able to expand towards the west America. -
Sugar Act
Under the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses. Colonial Merchants were forced to pay taxes. -
Boston Massacre
British Army soldiers shot and killed five people while under harassment by locals. It began with a riot and had 5 men dead -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston. Colonist were protesting that taxes should be remove from tea. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies who met from September 5 to October 26, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. Congress needed to develop a completely new system of government. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the spring of 1775 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Second Congress managed the colonial war effort, financing the war. -
Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. No one knew who shot first, but it lead to many Colonist dead. -
Bunker Hill
New England soldiers faced the British army for the first time in a pitched battle. Bloody fighting took place throughout a hilly landscape of fenced pastures. British won the battle. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration announced that the Thirteen Colonies at war with Great Britain would regard themselves as thirteen independent states, no longer under British rule. This was a break up letter to Britain. -
Siege of Yorktown
This was the Surrender of England. This battle ended the revolutionary war. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America. Witch ended the American Revolutionary War.
