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Treaty Of Paris Of 1763
The Treaty Of Paris ends the French and Indian War. After the war, the British continue to fight a number of Indian rebellions including one led by Chief Pontiac of the Ottawa Indians. In terms of the treaty, France gave up all it's territories in mainland North America, effectively ending any foreign military threat to the British colonies there. -
Proclamation of 1763
The proclamation of 1763 was no colonial settlement West of the Appalachian Mountains. It stationed 10,000 troops in America at a yearly cost of $400,000 pounds. In so doing, King George hoped to placate Native Americans who had sided against him during the recently concluded Seven Years' War. The proclamation had mad the British colonist because it prohibited colonist forbidding settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.This area is to be set aside and governed as Indian territory. -
Stamp Act of 1765
The Stamp Act passes parliament. It is the first direct tax on the colonies. The purpose of the tax is to help pay for the British military stationed in America. This act is met with greater resistance and the cry against taxation without representation increases.The Colonists reacted immediately, asserting that the Stamp Act was an attempt to raise money in the colonies without the approval of colonial legislatures. -
Quartering Act of 1765
The Quartering Act goes into effect in the colonies which requires residents to provide housing for British troops stationed in America. The colonists disputed the legality of this Act because it seemed to violate the Bill of Rights of 1689. British officers who had fought in the French and Indian War found it hard to persuade colonial assemblies to pay for quartering and provisioning of their troops. -
Stamp Act Congress of 1765
The Stamp Act Congress or First Congress of the American Colonies was a meeting held between October 7 and 25, 1765 in New York City, consisting of representatives from some of the British colonies in North America; it was the first gathering of elected representatives from several of the American colonies to devise a unified protest against new British taxation. Parliament had passed the Stamp Act -
Boston Massacre of 1770
The Boston Massacre was an incident between the British soldiers and a crowd of colonists in Boston, Massachusetts. It took place on March 5, 1770, when a group of nine British soldiers opened fire on the crowd, killing five and wounding six men. The commander of the watch and his eight soldiers were arrested by the next morning which partly relieved the tensions in the city. -
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a protest by the American colonists against Great Britain in which they destroyed many crates of tea on ships in Boston Harbor. The incident, which took place on Thursday, December 16, 1773, has been seen as helping to spark the American Revolution. The colonist boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. The result was in the Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts) -
1st Continental Congress 1774
It was 12 of 13 colonies (Georgia did not attend) send delegates in response to the Intolerable Acts. It sends petitions to England calling for repeal of oppressive legislation. The First colonist acted as a united government. A series of measures imposed by the British government on the colonies in response to their resistance to new taxes. -
First Continental Congress
It was 12 of 13 colonies (Georgia did not attend) send delegates in response to the Intolerable Acts. It sends petitions to England calling for repeal of oppressive legislation. The First colonist acted as a united government. A series of measures imposed by the British government on the colonies in response to their resistance to new taxes. -
Lexington and Concord
Considered by many to be the beginning of the actual American Revolution, the Battles of Lexington and Concord begin with the British heading to destroy a colonial arms depot in Concord Massachusetts.While the colonists lost many minutemen, the Battles of Lexington and Concord were considered a major military victory and displayed to the British and King George III that unjust behavior would not be tolerated in America. -
Second Continental Congress of 1775
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the spring of 1775 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It managed the Colonial war effort and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. -
Olive Branch Petition
The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 5, 1775 in a final attempt to avoid a full-on war between Great Britain and the thirteen colonies represented in that Congress. John Dickinson drafted the Olive Branch Petition, which was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 5 and submitted to King George on July 8, 1775. It was an attempt to assert the rights of the colonists while maintaining their loyalty to the British crown. -
Declaration of Independence of 1776
Thomas Jefferson's Draft of a Constitution for Virginia, predecessor of The Declaration Of Independence. Immediately on learning that the Virginia Convention had called for independence on May 15, 1776, Jefferson, a Virginia delegate to the Continental Congress, wrote at least three drafts of a Virginia constitution. British colonial leaders ordered their troops to prepare to seize the colonial militias' weapons. -
Adoption of the Declaration of Independence
On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence which formally proclaimed the 13 colonies as independent. The war, however, continued as Britain was not willing to give up its North American colonies. The original Declaration of Independence - mainly drafted by the future US President Thomas Jefferson. -
Battle of Trenton
The Battle of Trenton started on Christmas night crossing of the Delaware. It was defeat drunken hessians in 15 minutes, 800 POW. After General George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River north of Trenton the previous night, Washington led the main body of the Continental Army against Hessian soldiers garrisoned at Trenton. After a brief battle, nearly the entire Hessian force was captured, with negligible losses to the Americans. -
Battle Of Saratoga of 1777
It was 3 pronged British attack to split New England from Colonies. The Battle of Saratoga was unrealistic and unorganized, turning point of the war. The result in the french aid. Ben Franklin responsible for French Alliance. -
Surrender of Yorktown
After successful land and sea campaign of joint American and French armies in Virginia in 1781, the British found themselves trapped on the Yorktown peninsula. The British commander Lieutenant General Lord Cornwallis realized that he did not have a slightest chance against the Franco-American army and tried to escape. But his attempt failed. And with the Surrender of Yorktown, the American War of Independence was practically over.
