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Treaty of Paris
After Britians victory over Spain and France during the Seven Years War, the Treay of Paris was sighned. The sighning of the treaty caused for the Seven Years War to oficially come to an end. In terms of the treaty France, Britian, and Spain divided America into territories among one another. -
Proclamation of 1763
This was a royal proclamation by Britain at the end of the French and Indian War that prohibited settlement by whites on Indian territory. It established British land territory from west of the Appalachians and south of Hudson Bay. It ordered white settlers to withdraw. It also formalized Indian land titles. -
Stamp Act
The stamp act of 1765 was a direct taxing by the British Parliament specifically on the colonies of British America. They taxed raw materials such as magezines, newspapers, etc. -
Townshend Acts
Taxes on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper, and tea were established to raise £40,000 a year for the colonies. The result was the resurrection of colonial hostilities created by the Stamp Act. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was an incident in which the British killed five colonists. Boston soldiers and colonists were fighting about unfair parliaments the British had enforced upon the colonists. Suddenly the British shot which triggered the Boston massacre. -
Boston Tea Party
Citizens of Boston who (disguised as Indians) raided three British ships in Boston harbor and dumped hundreds of chests of tea into the harbor; organized as a protest against taxes on tea. They dumped millions of dollars worth of tea. -
Sons of Liberty
The Sons of Liberty was an organization of American patriots. 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 most known for their rebellion act towrds Britian during the Boston Tea Party. -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act or as the colinists called it the Intolerable Act, was a parliament that enacted British to order American governments and local colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations, such as food, water, housing, etc. -
1st Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of representatives from twelve colonies that met at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They met early in the American Revolution. They discussed the Intolerable Acts. -
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Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts was the Patriot name for a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. The colonies were pressed with greater taxes without any representation in Britain. -
Paul Revere
One evening Paul Revere was sent for by Dr. Joseph Warren and instructed to ride to Lexington, Massachusetts, to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British troops were marching to arrest them. He informed them that the "British were coming." -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the start of the American Revolutionary War. The battles marked the outbreak of conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the thirteen colonies in America. -
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John Adams
John Adams was the second president of the United States and on of the original founding fathers. He was well educated and impacted the American Revolution very much. -
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Benedict Arnold
Benedict Arnold was a general during the American Revolutionary War who originally fought for the American Continental Army but traided to the British Army. -
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Hessians
The Hessians were 30,000 German soldiers served in the Thirteen Colonies during the American Revolutionary War. They fought along side the British army. -
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Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams was the wife of John Adams, the second President of the United States. -
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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 big leader of the movement that became the American Revolution. He was realeted to John Adams. -
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George Washington
George Washington was the first President of the United States the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Due to his spectacular war stradegy's, American were successful during the Revolutionary War. -
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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson is one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America for the central role he played in the Declaration of Independence. During the American Revolution, Jefferson was elected governor of Virginia and, after the war, he was appointed minister to France. -
Common Sense
A pamphlet written by Thoms Paine that inspired people from the thirteen colonies to seek freedom Great Britian. At the beginning of the American Revolution it quickly became an immediate sensation. Washington even read the document when they surrounded a British army in Boston. -
Decleration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is a statement in which America announced that the thirteen American colonies, which were in war with Britian, regarded themselves as independent states and no longer a part of the British Empire. Instead they formed a union that became a new nation. The United States of America. Today we celebrate this event on July 4th to remeber this great moment in history. -
Loyalists
Loyalists were American colonists who remained loyal to the Kingdom of Great Britain during the American Revolutionary War. At the time they were often called Tories, Royalists, or King's Men. -
Patriots
Patriots (also known as Rebels) were colonists of the British Thirteen Colonies that violently rebelled against British control during the American Revolution and in July 1776 declared the United States of America an independent nation. -
Martha Custis Washington
Martha Custis Washington was the wife of the first president of the United Sates, George Washington. She played a small role in the Valley Forge encampment. -
Battle of Yorktown
General George Washington, commanding a force of 17,000 French and American troops, began the siege known as the Battle of Yorktown against British General Lord Charles Cornwallis and his 9,00 British soldiers. The Battle of Yorktown took place in Virginia. This battle was one of the most important battles of the Revolutionary War -
Lord Cornwallis
Charles Cornwallis led several successful early campaigns during the American Revolution, securing British victories at New York, Brandywine and Camden. In 1781 he moved his forces to Virginia, where he was defeated at the Battle of Yorktown. This American victory and Cornwallis' surrender of his troops to George Washington was the final major conflict of the American Revolution. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris (1783) ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain and the United States of America and its allies. The remaining nations had seperate agreements.
