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Revolution - Macee Owen
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Royal Proclamation of 1763
The Royal Proclamation was initially issued by King George III in 1763 to officially claim British territory in North America after Britain won the Seven Years War. -
Stamp Act of 1765
The Stamp Act of 1765 was the first internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British government. -
Townshend Taxes and the Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre, known as the Incident on King Street by the British, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five civilian men and injured six others. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, a city in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the tax policy of the British government and the East India Company that controlled all the tea imported into the colonies. -
Intolerable Acts
A series of British measures passed in 1774 and designed to punish the Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party. -
First Continental Congress
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Battle of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the thirteen colonies that started meeting on May 10, 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun -
Battle of Bunker Hill
The Battle of Bunker Hill took place on June 17, 1775, mostly on and around Breed's Hill, during the Siege of Boston early in the American Revolutionary War. -
Thomas Paine's Common Sense
Published in 1776, Common Sense challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy. -
Declaration of Independence
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, Independence from Britain -
Battles of Saratoga
The battle of Saratoga proved to be a crucial vistory for the Patriots and is considered a turning point of the Revolutionary War. -
Battle at Yorktown
The Battle of Yorktown was one of the last battles of the American Revolutionary War. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris, signed on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain on one side and the United States of America and its allies on the other.
