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Sugar Act
British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies and at providing increased revenues to fund enlarged British Empire responsibilities. -
Stamp Act
Legal documents and printed materials had to have a tax stamp that was provided by a commissioned distributors that would collect the tax in exchanged to a stamp. -
Boston Massacre
Stared off with a street fight and ended up becoming a massacre between British soldiers and the patriots when the patriots started throwing rocks, sticks, and stones to the British, and the British opened fire. -
Boston Tea Party
About 100 Boston colonist disguised as Indians and boarded the ships and smashed open about 342 chests of tea and dumped it into to harbor. -
First Continental Congress
All 13 colonies, besides Georgia, Met in Philadelphia to organize a colonial resistance for the Parliament’s Coercive Acts. -
Lexington and Concord
First military engagement of the American Revolution War. It’s the war that kicked off the American Revolutionary Wars. -
Bunker Hill
The Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War. -
Battle of Saratoga
France joins the side of the Americans -
Trenton
Washington crossed Delaware River captured 1,000 Hession soldiers -
Battle of Yorktown
General Cornwalls surrenders to American, French troops.