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Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation 0f 1763, as it is known, acknowledged that Indians owned the lands on which they were then residing and white settlers in the area were to be removed. -
Boston Massacre
This all started when kids threw snowballs at them and they started shooting -
Boston Tea Party
Massachusetts Patriots, protesed the monopoly on American tea importation recently granted by Parliament to the East India Company -
Common Sence
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain in the summer of 1776 -
Lexington and Concord
British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord in order to seize an arms cache. Paul Revere and other riders sounded the alarm, and colonial militiamen began mobilizing to intercept the Redcoat column. -
Fort Ticonderoga
Fort Ticonderoga, formerly Fort Carillon, is a large 18th-century star fort built by the French at a narrows near the south end of Lake Champlain in upstate New York in the United States -
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 -
Olive Branch Petition
The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by the Continental Congress in July 1775 in a fortified attempt to avoid a full-blown war between the Thirteen Colonies that the Congress represented -
Publishing of Common Sense
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain in the summer of 1776. -
Dorchester Heights
Decivise action early in american Revolution War, predictided the end of the seige of Boston and the withdrawal of British troops from that city -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence was written by Thomas Jefferson, and adopted by the Second Continental Congress. This article stated the reasons why the British colonies of North America sought their independence in July of 1776. It stated all men are created equal and that there are certain unalienable rights that governments should never violate. -
Trenton
The Battle of Trenton took place on the morning of December 26, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War, after General George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River north of Trenton, New Jersey -
Princeton
The Battle of Princeton was a battle in which General George Washington's revolutionary forces defeated British forces near Princeton, New Jersey -
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 -
Valley Forge
No battle was fought at Valley Forge. Yet, it was the turning point of the Revolutionary War. -
Yorktown
The Siege of Yorktown, Battle of Yorktown, German Battle or Surrender at Yorktown, the latter taking place on October 19, 1781, was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army
