Revolutionary War

By pgarland10
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    Sugar Act

    British Law that eliminated the smuggling trade in the colonies on goods such as molasses and sugar in an attempt at to increase revenues from the French and Indian War.
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    Stamp Act

    An act that allowed for direct taxation on the colonists on items such as newspapers, legal papers, dice, cards, and almanacs.
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    The Quartering Act

    An act by the British that forced colonist to house, feed, and provide a place of occupancy for a British soldier.
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    Declaratory Act

    Repealed the Stamp Act. Reasserted British authority to tax the American colonies.
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    Townsend Acts

    Laws that taxed goods imported into the colonies.

  • Boston Massacre

    An altercation between a patriot mob and British soldiers. Five colonist was killed by British.
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    Tea Act

    This act was undercut colonial merchants and made the colonists only by tea from the East India Company.

  • Boston Tea Party

    Event where colonists dressed up as Mohawk Indians and dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor in protests of the Tea Act and the East India Company.
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    First Continental Congress

    Delegates from 12 of 13 colonies met in Philadelphia to form a response from the Intolerable Acts that was passed by British Parliament.

  • Second Continental Congress

    Meeting of representatives from each colony to form a provisional government and to create an army to confront the British. They also created the Olive Branch Petition.

  • Battle of Concord and Lexington

    Shot heard around the world. American Victory. First battle of the Revolutionary War.

  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    British Victory. Confidence booster for the colonist even they lost the battle because they were able to inflict heavy losses against the British.

  • Common Sense by Thomas Paine Published

  • Declaration of Indepedence

    A document with unanimous consent from all thirteen colonies. Document declaring independence for Great Britain. Detailed reasons why the colonists wanted to severed ties from England. Written by Thomas Jefferson.

  • Battle of Trenton

    George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River. American victory against Hessian forces. Improved the morale of his army.

  • Battle of Princeton

    American victory. Boosted morale of the colonial army.
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    Battle of Saratoga

    Turning point of the Revolutionary War. American Victory. With this victory, France saw that the colonists can hold their own against the British. America and France became allies because of this victory.

  • Articles of Confederation Adopted

    Articles of Confederation adopted.
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    Siege of Yorktown

    Last Major battle of the Revolution. Located in Yorktown, Virginia. Trapped General Corwallis by America forces on land and the French by sea. General Cornwallis surrender his army to General George Washington.

  • Treaty of Paris

    The United States and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Paris

  • United States Constitution Signed

    The United States Constitution was signed by the Founding Fathers of this Nation.