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Treaty of Paris
The war between France and India is over. France ceded all the territory of the North American continent.
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The Proclamation Line of 1763
At the end of the France and Indian war, the proclamation of 1763 was used to prohibit the colonists to move west of the Appalachian mountains. This proclamation tried to make lear line of the difference of the territory between colonies and Indian people. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston massacre was a British standoff in king's street on March 5, 1770, when British soldiers shot and killed five people after being harassed by locals. -
Committees of Correspondence
Committees of Correspondence played an important role in the revolution by disseminating colonial interpretations of British actions between colonial and foreign governments. The Correspondence Committee met against the established plans for common cause and collective action, so the Committee Group was the beginning of a formal political alliance between colonies. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773. The target was to protest British Parliament's tax on tea. "No taxation without representation." -
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1st Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies at at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution.It was called in response to the Intolerable Acts passed by the British Parliament, which the British referred to as the Coercive Acts. And if their petition was not successful, they would call for the second continental congress, and the delegates also urged each colony to set up and train its own militia. -
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2nd Continental Congress
The Second Congress managed the Colonial war effort and moved incrementally towards independence. And it published a lot of important documents which played very important roles in American independence. he Congress acted as the de facto national government of the United States by raising armies, directing strategy, appointing diplomats, and making formal treaties. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord “shot heard ‘round the world”
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. It is a strategic American victory. British forces succeed in destroying cannon and supplies in Concord. Militia successfully drive British back to Boston, and it is also the start of the American Revolutionary War. -
Declaration of Independence
By issuing the declaration of independence adopted by the continental congress on July 4, 1776, the 13 American colonies severed political relations with Britain. By declaring themselves an independent country, the American colonists were able to confirm their official alliance with the French government and receive French aid in their war with Britain. -
Treaty of Paris (1783)
The treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by king George iii on behalf of Great Britain and on behalf of the United States on September 3, 1783, ended the American war of independence. The treaty defined the boundary between the British empire and the United States in North America
