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French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was a seven-year war between England and the American colonies, against the French and some of the Indians in North America. -
Treaty of Paris
England gained the land west of the appalachians and in canada from france. -
Proclamation of 1763
end of the French and Indian War, the British issued a proclamation,mainly intended to conciliate the Indians by checking the encroachment of settlers on their land. -
Stamp Act
placed a tax on legal documents -
The Boston Massacre
killing of five colonists by British regulars. Paul Revere warned them that the british were coming -
Tea Act
to reduce the massive surplus of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive. -
Boston Tea party
The Tea Party was a resistance movement throughout British America against the Tea Act, Colonists objected to the Tea Act because they believed that it violated their rights as Englishmen to "No taxation without representation. -
The 1st Continental Congress
Was a convention of delegates from twelve colonies (Georgia was not present) that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
The Battles Of Lexington And Concord
The first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
2nd 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. -
Declaration of independence
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 thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. -
The Battle of Yorktown
General George Washington's resounding defeat of Lord Cornwallis's British army;
causing the British to surrender and effectively ending the American Revolutionary War.
