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Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris was signed on Febuwary 10, 1763. It was also know as the Peace Treaty or the Treaty of 1763. It was signed by Great Britan, France, Spain, and Portugal and it decrared the agrrement of the Britain victory over France and Spain during the Seven Year War or the French and Indian War. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp act was past on March 22, 1763 by the British Parlament. The Act said that every piece of papers has to be taxed. This included docking papers, legal documents, licenses, newspaper and even playing cards. -
Proclamation
The Proclomation was isseued after the French and Indian war/ Seven Year War on October 7, 1763 by King George III and the Great British acquisition. It said that no settlers are able to cross and settle pass the Appalachian Mountains. -
Quartering Act.
The Quartering Act was a parliment that order the local goverment of the Americas to house and feed the British soliders. -
Boston Massacre
The Bosten Massacre was a street fight that invovled a mob of pariots throwing rocks, sticks and snowballs at a goup of British soilders. A few colonist were killed. -
Patriots
Patriots were colonist that were very agressive on Having the British not take over the Thirteen Colonies -
Sam Adams
Sam Adams was one of the Founding Fathers of the U.S. and was a political pholosopher. As a Political colonist he stared a movement that then came the American Revolution. -
Sons of Liberty
The Sons of Liberty was a group of American patriots that fought for rights for the American colonist. they fought for there rights by going to the sreets. One famous act was the Boston Tea Party in 1773. -
Bosten Tea Party
On December 16, 1773 colonist, dressed as indians, destroyed a whole tea supply from a ship docked at the Bosten Horbor in result of a boycott on the tax of tea that was not athoried by the americans. The Bosten Tea Party started the Amercan Revolution and the Intolerable Acts. -
1st Contineantal Congress
The 1st Conntineantal Congeress was aconvetion where delegates from each of the 12 colonise came toghthe and desussed the Intolrable acts on September 5, 1774 -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were acts that were past after the Bosten Tea Party. The Acts involed the Bosten Port Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Quartering Act, and the Administration of Justice Act. -
Loyalists
Loyalists were American colonist that stayed loyal to Great Britan during the Revolutionary War. When they were diffeted they most that were in the south moved to Florida but stiil was loyal the Great Britan. -
Paul Revere
Paul Revere had warned the residants of The Bosten area on April 18, 1775 that the british were coming to attack. -
Lexington and Concord
The battle of Lexinton and Concord was one of the first engaements of the Revolutionary War. It was fought between the towns of Concord, Lincoln ,and Lexiton a town by Bosten. Britsh soliders were sent to steal milutary equtiment from Massachusetts. The colonist had been told that the Britsh were going to try to steal there goods so the move them as soon as they heard and then set out to defend their town.When they met the British shots were fired but its still not clear who fired the first shot -
Benedict Arnold
Benedict Arnold was an American general during the Revolutionary war. He was very brave in his work as a general. His work included the Capture of Fort Ticonderoga, Delaying tactic in the Battle of Valour Island, and winning the Battle of RIdgefield. -
George Washington
George Washington was the first President of the Undited States, a Founding Father, and a general of the Contonental army during the American Recolution in 1775. -
Hessians
Hessians where German soilders that lived in the British colonies and sterved under Great Britan. They are call Hessians because many of the man that were Hassians that came from town named Hesse in Germany. -
Martha Custis Washington
Martha Custis Washington was the wife or the first Presidant George Washington. She was the First Lady of the United States but she was known as Lady Washington. -
Declaration of Independence
The Dec. of Independence was signede on July 4, 1776. This date is now celebrated as the birth of American Independence. It was signed by fifty- six Second Continental Congress of Philiidalphia. One famous signature was by John Hancock. His signature is about fiver inches long. -
Townshed Acts
The Townshed Acts were acts that were passed py the British goverment that invovled the British colonis in The Americas. -
John Adams
John Adams ws the second presidant of the United States, previous first vice-prestdent, and a Founding Father. He beleved greatly in the American freedom from Great Britan. He help Thoumas Jefferson wright the Declaration of Independence and later sighned it. -
Thomas Paine
In 1776 Tomas Paine wrote the best selling panphlet at the time that talked about the American independense from Great Britan. This infulences Patriots to fight for their rights from Great Britan. -
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was a Founding Father, the main author of the Declaration of Independence, and the third presidant of the United States. -
Abigal Adams
Abigal Adams was the wife of John Adams, the second presidant of the Unisted States, and the mother of John Quincy Adams. She was also the second First Lady. -
Battle of Saratoga
The Battle of Saratoga determinde the furture of the British General, General John Burgoyne. The two battles that took place eighteen days apart was a turning point in American Revolutionary War. -
Battle of Yorktown
On September 28, 1781 General George Washington had ordered about 17,000 French troops to march down to Yorktown and battle the 9,000 British troops of Charels Cornwallis. The Battle of Yorktown was one of the most important battles of the Revoloutionary War. -
Lord Cornwallis
Chareles Cornwallis was British officer and a colonial admidistratot during the American Revolutionary war. in 1781 he surrender to the Seige of Yorktown. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris of 1783 ended the Revolutionary War between Great Britan on on side and the Americans on the other side of the United States.
