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Treaty of Paris 1763
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. -
Loyalists
Loyalists were American colonists who remained loyal to the Kingdom of Great Britain during the American Revolutionary War. -
Proclimation
In English law, a proclamation is a formal announcement , made under the great seal, of some matter which the King in Council or Queen Regnant in Council desires to make known to his or her subjects. -
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Stamp Act
the stamp act was a direct taxing on the collonists by making every legal document including things like a deck of cards have to have a stamp on it. -
Quartering Act
The Quartering act is an aact that was passed that made American citizens have to house feed and dress the british millitary men -
Townshed Act
The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed beginning in 1767 by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. They were designed to collect revenue from the colonists in America by putting customs duties on imports of glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea. -
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. -
Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams was an American statesman, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. As a politician in colonial Massachusetts, Adams was a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a for of rebelion on the colonists side. they were fed up with all the taxes on tea. so the colonists bought some tea from england and when they arived the colonists dressed up as indians and snuk up on to the delivery ship and threw all the tea in to the The Boston Harbor. -
Sons of Liberty
The Sons of Liberty was an organization of American patriots that originated in the North American British colonies. The group was formed to protect the rights of the colonists and to take to the streets against the abuses of the British government. They are best known for undertaking the Boston Tea Party in 1773 in reaction to the Tea Act, which led to the Intolerable Acts , and a counter-mobilization by the Patriots. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were a seriese of laws passed in British Parliment that were aflicted on the collonists of Massachusetts relating to the Boston Tea Party. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from twelve colonies that met on September 5, 1774. -
Lexington and Concord
Lexington and Concord was the first battles faught in the revolutionary war. -
Paul Revere
He was a silversmith and a colonial militia officer -
George Washington
He became Americas first president. the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. -
Thomas Paine
He wrote common sense the pamphlet that was very influential to the American Patriots. Wich lead to the sighning of the Declaration of Independence. -
Patriots
Patriots were those colonists of the British Thirteen United Colonies that violently rebelled against British control during the American Revolution. -
Declaration of Independence
The Decloraation of Independence was a document that said that the 13 collonies were seperate states. It also says that America is in no relations with Great Britin -
John Adams
He asisted Thomas Jefferson in writing The Declaration of Independence. -
Battle of Saratoga
The Battles of Saratoga conclusively decided the fate of British General John Burgoyne's army in the American War of Independence and are generally regarded as a turning point in the war. Two battles were fought eighteen days apart on the same ground, 9 miles south of Saratoga, New York. -
Benedict Arnold
Benedict Arnold was a general during the American Revolutionary War who originally fought for the American Continental Army but defected to the British Army. While a general on the American side, he obtained command of the fort at West Point, New York, and planned to surrender it to the British forces. After the plan was exposed in September 1780, he was commissioned into the British Army as a brigadier general. -
Battle of Yorktown
it lead to an American victory and the treaty of paris 1783. -
Treaty of Paris 1783
It ended the revolutionary war and separated Great Britian and America.
