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THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR
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THE STAMP ACT
this act gave england permission to stamp various items, signifing that there was a tax on it. this outraged many colonists as they saw it as an infringement on their rights as englishmen. this is where the term taxation without representation comes from -
BOSTON MASSACRE
The boston massacre was a tradgedy that helped spark the fire that lead up to the revolution. The violence started when a soldier was surronded by an angry mob getting attacked verbally and with various objects being thrown at him. after a while the other soldiers noticed the mob and surronded them with rifles and fired into the crowd without an order to do so. killing 3 people and wounding others. 2 more people died beacuse of their actions. -
BOSTON TEA PARTY
The boston tea party was a protest against the unfair taxes on tea in america. The protest was lead by a group of colonists known as the sons of liberty. the protestors dressed up as native americans and snuck on to a cargo ship and dumped all of the tea into the boston habour. -
INTOLERABLE ACTS
In response to the sons of liberty boston tea party, britan published a series of punitive laws for the colonists. there was four laws in this act the most controversail restricting priviliges on the boston habour trade. the fith and final act the quebec act caused the colonists to form the first congressional congress -
BATTLE OF LEXINGTON AND CONCORD
These battles fought in lexington and concord masachuchetts was the first revolutionary war battle.The first shots were fired at sunrise at lexington. the colonists won the battle -
THOMAS PAINES COMMON SENSE
this pamplhet was mass published in america in simple english in order to convince colonists to join the revolution. the book had 2.5 million copies published and it helped recruit troops when america was in dire need of troops. it helped convince many people to join the fight -
THE SIGNING OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
The declaration of independence was signed on august 2nd not july fourth. The signing had 56 delegates sign it. The document declared the united states seperation from england
