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French and Indian war
British soldiers fought against French soldiers and Native Americans. Native Americans joined in the battle against the British because they were afraid the British would take over their land. The war ended in 1759 when British Major General James Wolfe captured Quebec. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, would launch the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston. The act was not intended to raise revenue in the American colonies, and in fact imposed no new taxes. It was designed to prop up the East India Company which was floundering financially and burdened with eighteen million pounds of unsold tea. This tea was to be shipped directly to the colonies, and sold at a bargain price. The Townshend Duties were still in place, however, and -
Boston Tea Party
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Boston Port Act
1773 Act that gave a monopoly on tea sales to the East India Company. In other words, American colonists could buy no tea unless it came from that company. Why? Well, the East Indian Company wasn't doing so well, and the British wanted to give it some more business. The Tea Act lowered the price on this East India tea so much that it was way below tea from other suppliers. But the American colonists saw this law as yet another means of "taxation without representation" because it meant that they -
Patrick Henry "Give me Liberty or give me Death!" speech
Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but , as for me give me liberty or give me death! -
Paul Rever's Ride
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Lexington and Concord War
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Battle of Bunker Hill
Following the beginning of the war at Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775 the citizens of Boston found themselves between two armies. General Artemas Ward's New England volunteers surrounded Boston and blockaded the land approaches; General Thomas Gage and 4,600 British soldiers held the city itself. One Bostonian wrote, "We are besieged this moment with 10 or 15,000 men, from Roxbury to Cambridge... We are every hour expecting an attack by land or water." -
The Virginia Delclaration of Rights
As passed, the Virginia Declaration was largely the work of George Mason; the committee and the Convention made some verbal changes and added Sections 10 and 14. This declaration served as a model for bills of rights in several other state constitutions and was a source of the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, though its degree of influence upon the latter document is a highly controversial question. -
The Declaration of Independence is read publicly
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Delegates begin to sign The Declaration of Independence
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The British win the Battle of Brandywine, Pennsylvania
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Washington's army leaves Valley Forge
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British capture Charleston, SC
Here is a video of the Revolutionary war. I hope you enjoy it! I inserted into a link. -
Washington's 2nd winter at Morristown, NJ (the harshest winter of the 18th century)
November- June 23
I did when it ended for the date.
