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French and Indian war
The French and Indian War, a conflict primarily fought between Britain and France over New World territory, ended with a British victory. -
Proclamation of 1763
After Britain won the Seven Years' War and gained land in North America.Many colonists regarded these new lands as a godsend. This royal proclamation, issued on October 7, 1763, closed down colonial expansion westward beyond Appalachia. -
Stamp Act
Stamp Act imposed a direct tax on the colonists. Specifically, the act required that, starting in the fall of 1765, legal documents and printed materials must bear a tax stamp provided by commissioned distributors who would collect the tax in exchange for the stamp.Colonial opposition led to the act's repeal in 1766 and helped encourage the revolutionary movement against the Crown. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a confrontation on March 5, 1770 in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston. throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry. The event was heavily publicized by leading Patriots such as Paul Revere and Samuel Adams. -
Boston Tea Party
The midnight raid, popularly known as the “Boston Tea Party,” was in protest of the British Parliament's Tea Act of 1773, a bill designed to save the faltering East India Company by greatly lowering its tea tax and granting it a virtual monopoly on the American tea trade -
Intolerable Acts
The series of acts British Parliament passed in 1774 in reaction to the Boston Tea Party came to be known in the American colonies as the Intolerable Acts. Incensed to a new level by the Coercive Acts enacted to punish the colonies. -
Battle of Bunker Hill.
The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on June 17, 1775, o prevent British soldiers from conducting further attacks on the countryside after the march to Lexington and Concord during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War. -
Publication of Common sense.
Published in 1776, Advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. A Common Sense challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is one of the most important documents in the history of the United States. It was an official act taken by all 13 American colonies in declaring independence from British rule.People in the colonies were unhappy that they did not have a say in their government and still had to pay taxes. -
Battle of Trenton
The Battle of Trenton was a small but pivotal battle during the American Revolutionary War, which took place on the morning of December 26, 1776, in Trenton, New Jersey. Despite the large number of Hessians that escaped Trenton, Washington still won a crucial strategic and material victory. -
Battles of Saratoga
The Battle of Saratoga was the turning point of the Revolutionary War. The scope of the victory is made clear by a few key facts: On October 17, 1777, 5,895 British and Hessian troops surrendered their arms. -
Valley Forge
Valley Forge is the story of the six month encampment of the Continental Army of the newly formed United States of America under the command of General George Washington, a few miles from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. -
Battle of Cowpens
The Battle of Cowpens was fought on January 17, 1781, near Thicketty Creek, South Carolina, on a 500 square yard grazing pasture. It began shortly after dawn on a bitterly cold morning and resulted in a devastating defeat for the British army, ending a brief string of victories for the Crown in the southern colonies. -
Battle of Yorktown.
The Siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown, the surrender at Yorktown, or the German Battle, ending on October 19, 1781, at Yorktown, Virginia. -
Treaty of Paris 1783
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. -
Treaty of 1763
On August 5, 1963, the Limited Test Ban Treaty was signed by the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union. The treaty prohibited nuclear weapons tests or other nuclear explosions underwater, in the atmosphere, or in outer space.
