Revolutionary War

By THE EAGLEMAN

  • Treaty of Paris

    Terminated the Seven Years War.

  • Stamp Act

    Taxing of goods of American Colonies

  • Townshend Act

    Set of laws from England that colonists did not approve of it.

  • Boston Massacre

    KIlled five colonists.

  • Tea Act

    Taxed tea on Colonists.

  • Boston Tea Party

    Protest tax of tea.
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    Gen. Thomas Gage

    MIlitary governer. Comander and chief for British military.

  • Intolerable Acts

    These acta took away local governments which made the colonists angry.
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    First Continental Congress

    Must fight the king and the parliment.
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    George Washington

    War general for the colonies, in 1st & 2nd continental congresses, then elected 1st President of the United States of America.

  • Edenton Tea Party

    Organized by women.
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    Second Continental Congress

    Olive Branch act and President Washington.

  • Paul Revere's Ride

    Told colonists 'The British are Coming"

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

    Kicked off the american Revolutionary War.

  • Mecklenburg Resolves

    Meclenburg couty declares independence.
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    Continental Army

    Protected our country and won the Revolutionary War.

  • Bunker Hill

    Killed most of the British.

  • Battle of Ticonderoga

    Colonists got cannons from British.

  • Olive Branch Petition

    Final attempt to not go into a fuul war.

  • Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation

    The Proclamation declared martial law[2] and promised freedom for slaves of American Patriots who left their masters and joined the royal forces.

  • Halifax Resolves

    The first official action in the American Colonies calling for independence from Great Britain.

  • Delaration of Independence.

    Declaration of Independence signed by colonists, and therefore was a birth of a new country.

  • Battle of Trenton

    during the American Revolutionary War, after General George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River north of Trenton, New Jersey. The hazardous crossing in adverse weather made it possible for Washington to lead the main body of the Continental Army against Hessian soldiers garrisoned at Trenton. After a brief battle, nearly the entire Hessian force was captured, with negligible losses to the Americans. American Victory.

  • Battle of Charelston

    Worst loss of life for Americans during the Revolutionary War. Unconditional surrender of Major General Benjamin Lincoln to British Lieutenant General Sir Henry Clinton and his army of 10,000 at Charleston, South Carolina. Americans Won.

  • Battle of Kings Mountain

    It was a decisive battle between the Patriot and Loyalist militias in the Southern campaign of the American Revolutionary War.
    America Victory.

  • Battle of Cowpens

    This took place in the latter part of the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution and of the Revolution itself. It became known as the turning point of the war in the South, part of a chain of events leading to Patriot victory at Yorktown.

  • Battle of Yorktown

    Britian Surrendered.
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    Treaty of Paris 1783

    This ended the American Revolutionary War. Signed in English by Britian and the United States