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Treaty of Paris (1763)
At the end of the French and Indian War, France ceded all mainland North American territories to grest brittan, except New Orleans, in order to retain the Caribbean sugar islands. Britain gained all territory east of the Mississippi River. Spain kept territory west of the Mississippi, but exchanged East and West Florida for Cuba. -
Proclaimation of 1763
The Proclaimation of 1763. George the 3rd prohibited settlement past the west of the appalachian mountains for the reason of the cost to defend them. the king offended the colonist to their believed rights to settle land to the west. this was important to the revolutionary war because it was brittans first affence againt the colonies. -
Stamp Act
not wanting to spend the money of garrisoning the colonies, Parliament required all legal documents, newspapers and pamphlets required to use watermarked, or stamped paper where a levy was placed. this was important to the war because the colonists belived it was unfair to tax them when they had no reprasentation in parlement. -
Quartering Act
Colonial assemblies required to pay for supplies to British garrisons. New York assembly argued that it could not be forced to comply. -
Townshend Acts
They were designed to collect revenue from the colonists in America by putting customs duties on imports of glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea. because it was another form a taxation -
Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams was a colonial leader who led a 1767 boycott Sam Adams organized resistance to the Stamp Act. His importance to the revolutionary war was that he was one of the first to start revolting which helped start the war. -
Boston Massacre
Angered by the presence of troops and Britain's colonial policy, a crowd began harassing a group of soldiers guarding the customs house. a soldier was knocked down by a snowball and discharged his musket, sparking a volley into the crowd which killed five civilians. this was important because it was the spark that egnighted the colonies. -
Loyalists
The loyalists were American colonists who remained loyal to the king of great Britain and the British Monarchy during the revolutionary war. Their importance included counter attacks on the patriots because they were already subsided in the colonies and made the patriots have to defend their land harder. -
Abigail Adams
was the wife of John Adams, the first Vice President, and second President, of the United States, and the mother of John Quincy Adams, the sixth President. She gave birth to one of the most impoprtante people in the revolutionary war. -
Boston tea party
Angered by the tea acts, the American patriots disguised as mohawk Indians dumped 9000 pounds of east Indian company tea into boston harbor -
Intolerable Acts
Four measures which stripped Massachusetts of self-government and judicial independence following the Boston Tea Party. The colonies responded with a general boycott of British goods. -
1st Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress, which was comprised of delegates from the colonies, met in 1774 in reaction to the Coercive Acts, a series of measures imposed by the British government on the colonies in response to their resistance to new taxes. -
John Adams
John Adams became an important leader in the fight for liberty. From 1774 to 1778 he was a member of the Continental Congress. He was also appointed to the committee to write the Declaration of Independence. -
Thomas paine
He was an English-American political activist, author, political theorist and revolutionary. He supported the patriots and gave helpful imformation. -
Sons of liberty
The Sons of Liberty was an organization of American patriots that originated in the pre-independence North American British colonies. -
Charles cornwallis
between 1762 and 1792, was a British Army officer and colonial administrator. In the United States and the United Kingdom he is best remembered as one of the leading British generals in the American War of Independence. -
Lexington and Concord
First engagements of the Revolutionary War between British troops and the Minutemen, who had been warned of the attack by Paul Revere. this was the battle that started the revolution. -
Benedict Arnold
He was a general that originaly fought on the American side of the revolutionary war but later traded to the british army. -
Hessians
The hessians were german auxiliaries defending and fighting for the British empire. Thy made the war harder to fight for thepatriots because they could perform internal attacks. -
Dec. of Independence
this stated the freedom of colonists from Great Britain. -
The American Patriots
They were colonists of the british's thirteen colonies that violently rebelled against the british control during the American Revolution. They had made america a free nation. -
Paul Revere
He was an American silversmith, early industrialist and an American patriot. His importance included fighting in the war for the right of a free nation. -
Battle of Saratoga
On September 19th, British General John Burgoyne achieved a small, but costly victory over American forces led by Horatio Gates and Benedict Arnold. Though his troop strength had been weakened, Burgoyne again attacked the Americans at Bemis Heights on October 7th, but this time was defeated and forced to retreat. He surrendered ten days later, and the American victory convinced the French government to formally recognize the colonist's cause and enter the war as their ally. -
Thomas Jefferson
was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the third President of the United States (1801–1809). -
Martha custis Washington
was the wife of George Washington, the first president of the United States. Although the title was not until after her death, Martha Washington is considered to be the first First Lady of the United States. She did not serve to much importance in the revolutionary war besides that. -
George Washington
was the first President of the United States (1789–1797), the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. His imporantce is just common sence, he was one of the founding fathers and was a major leader in the revolutionary war. -
Battle of Yorktown
last major land battle in North America of the American Revolutionary War, also known as the American War of Independence. this was a victory led by george washington, defeatin cornwallace. -
Treaty of Paris (1783)
the end of the revolutionary war as when the British surrender their arms.