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Revolutionary War
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Proclamation of 1763
Prevented colonial expansion beyond Appalachian Mountains. -
Stamp Act
You have to spend mony for stamps to help pay for expenses of plantations, soldiers, general needs. -
Quartering Act
An act for punishing mutiniy and desertion and for better payment of the army and their quarters. -
Townshend Act
Taxes on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper, and tea with the design of raising 40,000 for the colonies. -
Boston Massacre
A Patriotic Mob came together and throwed various items at British Soldiers and many colonists were killed. This was when the British presence was becoming more unfavorable. -
Boston Tea Party
Colonists were outraged by all the taxes they were getting because of the Townshend Act and the Stamp Act and the taxes on sugar and tea. Angry Colonists dumped over 300 chests full of tea overboard the British Ship. -
Boston Port Act - Intolerable Act
An act to discontinue the shipping of goods, wares, and merchandise, within the town, and within the harbour of Boston, and the Province of Massachsetts Bay. -
Administration of Justice Act - Intolerable Act
An act for the Administration of Justice where the cases of persons questioned by any acts done by them or for the supression of riots and tumults. -
Massachusetts Government Act - Intolerable Act
An act for better regulating the government in Massachusetts Bay. -
Quartering Act - Intolerable Act
An act where soldiers can go into any colonist home if they are needed in that town. -
Quebec Act - Intolerable Act
An act for making effectual provision for the government of Quebec. -
1st Continental Congress
In Carpenter's Hall in Philidelphia has a delegate from all the colonies except Georgia met to show a combined force against Britain's Power. -
Lexington and Concord
When British Commander Gage had a plan to take over Lexington and Concord were spoiled by the spies in Britian who told there American friends about it so they formed the Minute Men. They were the resistance against the British when they attacked. -
Declaration of Independance
A document where America declared independance from Britain. -
Battle of Saratoga
Turning Point and decided the fate of the British general Jonh B.'s Army. Two Battles fought 18 days apart in Saratoga, New York. In the end the British general surrendered. -
Siege of Yorktown
A victory with the combined forces of the American Continental Army led by George Washington and the French Army over the British lord and Lieutenant General Lord Cornwallis. -
Lord Cornwallis
A British lord and Lieutenant General of the British Army. Surrendered in the Siege of Yorkton. -
Treaty of Paris
A treaty document to have a treaty between American and Great Britian ending the Revolutionary War.
