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The battle of Saratoga was a turning point in the Revolutionary War. Saratoga ended British general John Burgoyne's attempt to control the Hudson river valley. -
The Britain governor of Virginia Lord Dunmore issue a proclamation offering freedom to any slaves of rebellious Americans who are able to enter British lines.
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The Boston Tea Party was in protest of the British Parliament’s Tea Act of 1773.The low tax allowed the East India company to undercut even tea smuggled into America by Dutch traders.
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The Peace of Utrecht was a series of peace treaties signed by the belligerents in the War of the Spanish Succession.
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a Spanish expedition from Mexico established the Mission San Antonio de Valero. The mission, later called the Alamo, “Cottonwood” was one of five founded in the area and was named for St. Anthony of Padua.
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Blackbeard was killed in battle against Maynard. Maynard and Blackbeard clashed in a sword duel which saw Blackbeard sustain more than twenty wounds.
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The governor of New York secured an indictment of seditious libel against John Peter Zenger for publishing articles criticizing him.
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British Parliament passed the stamp act to help pay for British troops stationed in colonies during the seven years of war. The act required the colonist to pay tax. -
Townshend Acts were a series of measures passed by British parliament in 1767 American colonists, who had no representation in Parliament, saw the Acts as an abuse of power.
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The Boston Massacre is when nine British soldiers shot five people out of a crowd of three or four hundred who were abusing them verbally and throwing various missiles
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The Coercive Acts of 1774 known as the Intolerable Acts in the American colonies were a series of four laws passed by British Parliament to punish the colony Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea party. -
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
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The United States Declaration of Independence, formally The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America.
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British raids on American coastal towns in late 1775 also contributed to a general deterioration of relations between Great Britain and her American colonies.
