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Treaty of Paris
It formally ended the French and Indian war. thomas Paine inspired the Patriots in 1776 to de
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Proclamation of 1763
It made it illegal for the colonists settle west of the Appalachian Mountains
Loyalists were American colonists who remained loyal to the Kingdom of Great Britain -
Stamp Act
It required that lots of legal documents had to carry an embossed revenue stamp. -
Quarting Act
It stated that Great Britain would house its soldiers in American public houses
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Townshend Acts
The purpose of the Townshend Acts was to raise revenue in the colonies to pay the salaries of governors and judges. -
Boston Massacre
British Army soldiers killed five civilian men and injured six others Sam Adams one of the Founding Fathers of the United States -
Boston Tea Party
Disguised as Indians, the patriots(Patriots were those colonists of the British Thirteen United Colonies that violently rebelled against British ) destroyed the entire supply of tea. They boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into Boston Harbor, ruining the tea. The Sons of Liberty was an organization of American patriots -
The Intolerable Acts
the Patriot name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Massachusetts after the Boston Tea party. -
1st continental congress
A meeting with people twelve colonies was called in response to the passage of the Coercive Acts by the Brits.The Intolerable Acts had punished Boston for the Boston Tea Party.
The Hessians were 18th-century German auxiliaries contracted for service under The Crown of the British Empire
Abigal Adams was the wife of John Adams -
Lexington and Concord
The first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
Paul Revere was a patriot and was most known for this battle. -
Dec. of Independence
It stated that the 13 American colonies, became their own independent states, and no longer were a part of the British Empire.
john Adams was the second president of the United States
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Battle of saratoga
It was a battle that really changed the fate of the war Benedict Arnold was a general during the American Revolutionary War who originally fought for the American Continental Army but defected to the British Army -
Battle of Yorktown
it was one of the most important battles of the revolutionary war George Washington was the first President of the United States -
Treaty of Paris
Ended the war Lord Conwallis was one of the leading British generals in the American War of Independence.
