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Revolution
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Royal Proclamation of 1763
Line prohibiting settlement beyond the Appalachian Mountains - King George III -
Stamp Act of 1765
Made it so about 50 different trade items required the use of a stamped paper or the affixing of stamps in order to pay for maintaining the troops in the colonies -
Townshend Taxes and the Boston Massacre
Mass tax for 50 different items on the colonists leads to confrontation between mobs and soldiers while they were on duty, 5 colonists killed, 6 injured -
The Boston Tea Party
Colonists went on to the ship dressed as Mohawk indians and dumped 342 tea chests into the Boston Harbor as a way of protesting the taxes -
The Intolerable Acts
Coercive acts with a different name, which punish colonies. The acts stripped Massachusetts of self-government and historic rights
Series of acts to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party
1: Boston Port Bill, 2: Administration of Justica Act, 3: Massachusetts Government Act, 4: Quartering Act, 5: Quebec Act -
First Continental Congress
55 delegates from 12 colonies joined together in Carpenter's Hall in order to address grievances in secret against the colonists had against Britain -
The Battle of Lexington and Concord
British trying to seize a secret stash of weapons at Concord
First outbreak of military fighting between colonists and British soldiers at Lexington. Marks the beginning of the War. -
Second Continental Congress
Convention of delegates from the 13 colonies thatmanaged colonial war effort, Created the continental army, George Washington was named Commanding General -
Battle of Bunker Hill
1000 British casualties, 400 colonists casualties
Took the British 3 waves to finally take the hill
Bloodiest of all the battles -
Thomas Paine's Common Sense
Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy
Presented the American colonists with an argument for freedom from British rule -
Declaration of Independence
Statement adopted by the Continental Congress that announced that the 13 American colonies regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. -
Battle of Saratoga
Americans win
Turning point of Revolutionary War
British and Hessian troops surrender after General John Burgoyne had lost 86 percent of his expeditionary force -
Battle at Yorktown
American Contiental Army and Frech troops defeat British troops, making it the last major battle of the Revolutionary War -
Treaty of Paris
Treaty that ended the American Revolutionary War
Signed in Paris France
