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A law put in place by the King of England preventing settlers to move west of the Appalachian Mountains.
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A tax on all paper goods coming into the colonies.
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The Townshend Taxes were a group of taxes, that taxed many necessary goods at the Boston port, and the Boston Massacre was a when a group of colonists were protesting to a group of British soldiers and the soldiers began firing on the colonists.
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A group of colonists boarded three British cargo ships loaded with tea and dumped it into the harbor.
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A set of acts that were put in place by the King in response to the Boston Tea Party
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A group of around 50 delegates from the thirteen colonies discussing the formation of the Continental Army.
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A meeting of delagates from twelve colonies,(Georgia sent no delegates) they discussed gaining independence from Britain.
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The British were en route to Concord to capture weapons from the colonists and that resulted in the Battles of Lexington and Concord.
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A battle in which the Americans had dug into the side of a hill and killed nearly 1,000 British soldiers, showing they could hold their own against the British
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A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine. It showed the colonists view and how they were being treated unfairly.
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The document that declared America's independence from Britain.
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Turning point for the American's, pushed the British back to the coast.
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The final battle in the American Revolution and the Americans won with the aid of the French Navy.
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The treaty between France and America, and the British.
