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Proclamation Line
Hoping to end the fighting, King Georhe III of Great Britian issued the Proclamation act of 1763. It ordered the colonists to stop settling in lands west of the Appalachian Mountains, as it had been set aside for the American Indians. Colonists already living there were ordered to leave. -
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Stamp act
Put taxes on newspaper, legal documents, playing cards, diplomas, and other printed goods. -
Boston Massacre
A group of angry citizens mob infront of the customs house in Boston and begin to taunt a group of British soldiers, who fire upon the crowd, killing 5. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party occured when a large group of patriots gathered at Boston harbor dressed as Mohawk indians and seized 342 crates of tea imported from Great Britain and threw it into the harbor. -
First Continential Congress
the first Continential Congress met in Philadelphia in Carpenters Hall. Carpenter's Hall was also the seat of the Pennsylvania Congress. All of the colonies except Georgia sent delegates. -
Patrick Henry's speech.
the colonists assembled at the Virginia Convention debated whether to mobilize forces against the British, Henry gave an impassioned speech in support of the resolution from his pew in a Richmond church. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord in order to seize an arms cache. Paul Revere and other riders sounded the alarm, and colonial militiamen began mobilizing to intercept the Redcoat column. -
Approval of the Declaration of Independance
During the Revolutionary war, the Second Continental Congress, made up of representatives from 13 British colonies in North America, approved the Declaration of Independence as drafted by Thomas Jefferson. -
Battle of Saratoga
5,895 British and Hessian troops surrendered their arms after losing 86 percent of the army. This was a major turning point in the war for independance. -
Surrender at Yorktown
America declared its independence in 1776, but it took another five years to win freedom from the British. That day came when Lord Cornwallis surrendered his men at Yorktown. -
Signing of the Treaty of Paris
The American Revolution officially comes to an end when representatives of the United States, Great Britain, Spain and France sign the Treaty of Paris. The signing signified America's status as a free nation, as Britain formally recognized the independence of its 13 former American colonies.
