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American Revolution

  • Jefferson wrote the DOI

    Jefferson wrote the DOI
    The Declaration explains why the colonies should break away from Britain. It says that people have rights that cannot be taken away, lists the complaints against the king, and argues that the colonies have to be free to protect the colonists' rights. At the bottom of the document, the delegates signed their names. (EduPlace)
  • Battles of Trent and New Jersey

    Battles of Trent and New Jersey
    General George Washington's army crossed the icy Delaware on Christmas Day 1776 and, over the course of the next 10 days, won two crucial battles of the American Revolution. In the Battle of Trenton (December 26), Washington defeated a formidable garrison of Hessian mercenaries before withdrawing. (History.com)
  • American and British battle of Saratoga

    American and British battle of Saratoga
    The Battles of Saratoga (September 19 and October 7, 1777) marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War. (Wikipedia)
  • Howe captures Philadelphia

    Howe captures Philadelphia
    The Philadelphia campaign (1777–1778) was a British effort in the American Revolutionary War to gain control of Philadelphia, which was then the seat of the Second Continental Congress. British General William Howe, after failing to draw the Continental Army under General George Washington into a battle in northern New Jersey, embarked his army on transports, and landed them at the northern end of Chesapeake Bay.
  • State Constitutions

    State Constitutions
    A state constitution is the governing document of a U.S. state, comparable to the United States Constitution which is the governing document of the United States. (Ballotpedia)
  • Articles of Confederation

    Articles of Confederation
    The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union was an agreement among the 13 original states of the United States of America that served as its first constitution. It was approved, after much debate, by the Second Continental Congress on November 15, 1777, and sent to the states for ratification. (Wikipedia)
  • Congress prohibits enslaved people imported to the US

    On this day in 1807, Congress enacted a law to “prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States ... from any foreign kingdom, place or country.” The ban took effect on Jan. 1, 1808. (Politico)
  • Winter at Valley Forge

    Winter at Valley Forge
    Valley Forge functioned as the third of eight winter encampments for the Continental Army's main body, commanded by General George Washington, during the American Revolutionary War. In September 1777, Congress fled Philadelphia to escape the British capture of the city. (Wikipedia)
  • John Paul Jones & Serapis

    John Paul Jones & Serapis
    During the American Revolution, the U.S. ship Bonhomme Richard, commanded by John Paul Jones, wins a hard-fought engagement against the British ships of war Serapis and Countess of Scarborough, off the eastern coast of England. (History.com)
  • Spain Declares war on Great Britain

    Spain Declares war on Great Britain
    On June 21, 1779, Spain declares war on Great Britain, creating a de facto alliance with the Americans. Spain's King Charles III would not consent to a treaty of alliance with the United States. ... As the ally of the United States' ally, Spain managed to endorse the revolt at a critical diplomatic distance. (History.com)
  • British forces capture Charles Town

    British forces capture Charles Town
    In March 1780, Clinton, Prevost, and General Charles Lord Cornwallis, whose force had accompanied Clinton from New York, descended on Charleston. By early April, the combined British forces had successfully trapped the Americans in the beleaguered city. (History.com)
  • British surrender at Yorktown

    British surrender at Yorktown
    The Siege of Yorktown, also known as the battle of Yorktown, the surrender at Yorktown, or the German Battle, ending on October 19, 1781, at Yorktown, Virginia, was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French Army troops led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British army commanded by British peer and Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis. (Wikipedia)
  • Treaty of Paris

    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, officially ended the American Revolutionary War. (Wikipedia)