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Treaty Of Paris
The Treaty of Paris of Feb. 10, was signed by Great Britain, France, and Spain. Together with the treaty of Hubertusburg, it terminated the Seven Years War. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Acts was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain that imposed a direct tax on the colonies of British America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp. -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed, beginning in June 1767, by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars on March 5, 1770. It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts -
Tea Act
The tea act launched the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston. The act was not intended to raise revenue in the American colonies, and in fact imposed no new taxes. -
Boston Tea Party
was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773. The demonstrators, some disguised as American Indians, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company. -
The Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts was the American Patriots' name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. -
The Edenton Tea Party
The Edenton Tea Party was one of the earliest organized women’s political actions in United States history.Mrs. Penelope Barker organized, at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth King, fifty-one women in Edenton, North Carolina. Together they formed an alliance wholeheartedly supporting the American cause against taxation without representation. -
First Contanental Congress
The first Continental Congress met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia. The colonies presented there were united in a determination to show a combined authority to Great Britain. -
Paul Revere
was an American silversmith, engraver, early industrialist, and a patriot in the American Revolution. He is most famous for alerting the Colonial militia to the approach of British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord, -
Battle of Lexington And Concord
This battle kicked off the Revolutionary War. On the 18th hundreds of british troops marched from boston to concord. -
The Mecklenburg Resolves
, was a list of statements adopted at Charlotte, in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina on May 31 drafted in the month following the fighting at Lexington and Concord. -
The Continental Army
The Continental Army was formed after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War by the colonies that became the United States of America. -
Bunker Hill
The battle is named after the adjacent Bunker Hill, which was peripherally involved in the battle and was the original objective of both colonial and British troops and is occasionally referred to as the Battle of Breed's Hill -
Olive Branch Petition
The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on in a final attempt to avoid a full-on war between the Thirteen Colonies that the Congress represented and Great Britain -
The Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
Siege of Boston
The Siege of Boston was the opening phase of the American Revolutionary War. New England militiamen prevented the movement by land of the British Army garrisoned in what was then the peninsular town of Boston, Massachusetts. -
The Halifax Resolves
The Halifax Resolves was a name later given to the resolution adopted by North Carolina on April 12, 1776. The adoption of the resolution was the first official action in the American Colonies calling for independence from Great Britain during the American Revolution -
Gen Thomas Gage
Gen Thomas Gage was a British general, best known for his many years of service in North America, including his role as military commander in the early days of the American Revolution. -
George Washington
George Washingtonwas the first President of the United States, the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War