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Hessians
The Hessians were 18th-century German auxiliaries contracted for service under the Crown of the British Empire. About 30,000 German soldiers served in the Thirteen Colonies during the American Revolutionary War. -
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Treaty of Paris
French and Indian war ends. -
Proclomation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 was issued by King George lll following Great Britain's aqcusition of French territory after the 7 year French and Indian War. -
Stamp Act
It imposed a tax by the British Parliment on the colonies of British America and it required printed materials in the colonies to be on stamp paper produced in London. -
Townshend Acts
The purpose of the Townshend Acts was to raise revenue in the colonies to pay the salaries of governors and judges so that they would be independent of colonial rule. -
Boston Massacre
British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others while sationed in Boston. -
Sons of Liberty
The Sons of Liberty was an organization of American patriots that originated in the North American British colonies. The group was formed to protect the rights of the colonists and to take to the streets against the abuses of the British government. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a nonviolent political protest by the Sons of Liberty of Boston. They were disguised as Indians and destroyed the entire supply of tea sent by the East Indiana Company. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts was the Patriot name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Massachusetts after the Boston Tea party. -
Quartering Act
The British Parliament ordered locol governments of the American colonies to provide British soldiers with food, water and a place to stay at night. -
1st Continental Congress
The 1st Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from tweleve colonies that met in Philadelphia early in the American Revolution. -
Lexington and Concord
They were the first military engagements of the Revolutionary War. -
Loyalists
Loyalists were American colonists who remained loyal to the Kingdom of Great Britain (and the British monarchy) during the American Revolutionary War -
Benedict Arnold
Benedict Arnold was a general during the American Revolutionary War who originally fought for the American Continental Army but defected to the British Army. While a general on the American side, he obtained command of the fort at West Point, New York, and planned to surrender it to the British forces. -
Patriots
Patriots were the colonists of the British Thirteen United Colonies that violently rebelled against British control during the American Revolution and in July 1776 declared the United States of America an independent nation. -
Dec. of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. -
Battle of Saratoga
The Battles of Saratoga conclusively decided the fate of British General John Burgoyne's army in the American War of Independence and are generally regarded as a turning point in the war. -
Battle of Yorktown
The battle of Yorktown taking place on October 19, 1781, was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French Army troops led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by British lord and Lieutenant General Lord Cornwallis. -
Treaty of Paris- 1783
The Treaty of Paris, signed on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain on one side and the United States of America and its allies on the other. -
Lord Cornwallis
Lord Cornwallis was a British Army officer and colonial administrator. In the United States and the United Kingdom he is best remembered as one of the leading British generals in the American War of Independence. -
George Washington
George Washington was the first President of the United States, the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. -
Martha Custis Washington
Martha Custis Washington was the wife of George Washington, the first president of the United States. Although the title was not coined until after her death, Martha Washington is considered to be the first First Lady of the United States. -
Abiagil Adams
Abiagil Adams was the wife of John Adams, the first Vice President, and second President, of the United States, and the mother of John Quincy Adams, the sixth President. -
Sam Adams
Sam Adams was an American statesman, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a second cousin to President John Adams. From 1789-94 he was Governer of Massachusetts. -
Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine was an English-American political activist, author, political theorist and revolutionary. As the author of two highly influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, he inspired the Patriots in 1776 to declare independence from Britain. -
John Adams
John Adams was the second president of the United States serving from 197-1801.Having earlier served as the first vice president of the United States. An American Founding Father, Adams was a statesman, diplomat, and a leading advocate of American independence from Great Britain. -
Paul Revere
Paul Revere was an American silversmith, early industrialist, and a patriot in the American Revolution. He had a big part in the Revoltutionary War. -
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence ) and the third President of the United States. He was a spokesman for democracy and the rights of man with worldwide influence.
