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Boston Massacre
Location(s)
Boston, Massachusetts, British America
Important person(s) involved : Paul Revere and Samuel Adams
Groups : British and American colonists
Significant: This event made American colonists very angry and this was a cause of Independence War. -
Boston Tea Party
Location(s): Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay
Important person(s) involved: Thomas Hutchinson
Groups: British and American colonists
Significant: After this events, the British government became very angry and established four unfair laws, canceled the autonomy of Massachusetts and closed the port of Boston, which deprived the rights of colonists. This force the colonists stand to fight. -
The First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies who met from September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania early in the American Revolution. It was called in response to the Intolerable Acts passed by the British Parliament, which the British referred to as the Coercive Acts, with which the British intended to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party. -
Lexington & Concord
Location(s) in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord.
Important person(s) involved：John Parker/James Barrett
Groups: Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in America.
Result: American colonies won this battle
significant :This battle reinforced the American colonies to fight with British. And this is the first battle of revolutionary war, although the American colonies did not want to be independent at that time. -
The Battle of Bunker Hil
The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on June 17, 1775, during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War. The battle is named after Bunker Hill in Charlestown, Massachusetts, which was peripherally involved in the battle. It was the original objective of both the colonial and British troops, though the majority of combat took place on the adjacent hill which later became known as Breed's Hill. -
2nd Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the spring of 1775 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It succeeded the First Continental Congress, which met in Philadelphia between September 5, 1774 and October 26, 1774. The Second Congress managed the Colonial war effort and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. -
The Battle of Trenton
The Battle of Trenton was a small but pivotal battle during the American Revolutionary War which took place on December 26, 1776. After General George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River previous night,he led the main body of the Continental Army against Hessian soldiers garrisoned. After a brief battle, nearly the entire Hessian force was captured,with negligible losses to the Americans. The battle significantly boosted the Continental Army's flagging morale and inspired re-enlistments. -
Saratoga
Location(s)
Stillwater, Saratoga County, New York
Important person(s) involved
Horatio Gates
Benedict Arnold
Benjamin Lincoln
Enoch Poor
Ebenezer Learned
Daniel Morgan
Groups: British and America
Won: America
Significant: It was marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War. -
Treaty of Alliance
Location(s): at the hôtel de Coislin in Paris
Important person(s) involved: Benjamin Franklin
Groups: French and American
significant: It was a big succeed about the diplomacy of America. This alliance indicated that the independence of America got the agreement of other countries. And French gave a hand to America during the war, which also made America at a beneficial place. -
Guilford Courthouse
Location(s) present day Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S.
Important person(s) involved
Nathanael Greene
Lord Cornwallis
Groups: British and American
Result: British won
Significant: Such heavy British casualties resulted in a strategic victory for the Americans. -
The Siege of Yorktown
The Siege of Yorktown, ending on October 19, 1781, at Yorktown, Virginia, 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 peer and Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis. The battle boosted faltering American morale and revived French enthusiasm for the war, as well as undermining popular support for the conflict in Great Britain. -
The Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War. The treaty set the boundaries between the British Empire in North America and the United States, on lines "exceedingly generous" to the latter.[2] Details included fishing rights and restoration of property and prisoners of war.
