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George Washington
George Washington was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America and served as the nation's first president. He also served as a general during the revolutionary war -
French and Indian War
The French and Indian War pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France. -
proclamation of 1763
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III ending the french and indian war. -
Sugar act
The tax on sugar. -
townshend act
The Townshend Acts were a series of British Acts of Parliament passed during 1767 and 1768 and relating to the British in North America. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre happened in Boston on King Street where British shot and killed five citizens while under harassment. -
Tea act
Taxes on tea caused the boston tea party. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773 -
intolerable acts
The Intolerable Acts were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. -
First continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies who met from September 5 to October 26, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
Second continental congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the spring of 1775 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. -
Bunker Hill
The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on June 17, 1775, during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War. -
Common Sense
Common Sense was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. -
Declaration of Independence
The United States Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 4, 1776. -
Battle of Trenton
The Battle of Trenton was a small but impacting battle during the American Revolutionary War which took place on December 26, 1776, in Trenton, New Jersey. -
Battle of Saratoga
The Battles of Saratoga marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War. -
Articles of Confederation
an agreement among the 13 original states of the United States of America that served as its first constitution -
Siege of Yorktown
The Siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown, the Surrender at Yorktown, German Battle or the Siege of Little York, ending on October 19, 1781, at Yorktown, -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America on September 3, 1783, which ended the American Revolutionary War.
