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Crispus Attucks killed
Crispus Attucks was an American slave, merchant seaman and dockworker of Wampanoag and African descent. He was believed to be the first person to die in the Boston Massacre. -
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Boston Massacre
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The Ghaspee affair
Since the stamp act was becoming aggresive a dramatic event was to demonstrate the severity of the crisis.A Lieutenant William Duddington, of Her Majesty's Ship Gaspee, was charged with patrolling the waters of Narragansett Bay, off Rhode Island. -
Boston Tea Party
On Dec. 6, 1773, a band of Bostonians ill-disguised as Indians boarded three ships in Boston harbor and dumped 342 chests of tea into the water which was worth £9,000. -
Boston Port Act
Boston Port Act is to discontinue, in such manner, and for or such time as are therein mentioned, the landing and discharging, lading or shipping, of goods, wares, and merchandise, at the town, and within the harbour, of Boston, in the province of Massachuset's Bay, in North America. -
Quebec Act
An act for making effectual Provision for the Government of the Province of Quebec, in North America. -
Commitees of Correspondence
The Committe of Correspondence was formed by Patriot leaders when the Bristish were writing the Tea Act. -
Patric Henry famous speech
Henry Patric gave his most amous speech in his carrer and called on the colonists to arm themselves, with the words: "Give me liberty, or give me death" -
George Washington named commander in chief.
As the Commander in Chief of the Continental Army the services and achievements of George Washington are unique in the world's history. He was much more than the Commander in Chief. He was the one necessary person, whose calm, unswerving, determined sense of patriotic duty to country, and ability put real backbone into the Revolution and kept it from collapsing or merging into a civil conflict, under the hardships and unexpected privations encountered during the eight years of war. -
The Declaratory Act
The Declatory Act is for the better securing the dependency of his Majesty's dominions in America upon the crown and parliament of Great Britain. -
Declaration of Independence
Every July 4, Americans celebrate the birthday of the United States. On that day in 1776, the members of the Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, signed a Declaration of Independence cutting the last link between the 13 original colonies and the government of Great Britain. Only their president, John Hancock, signed the Declaration that day. Fifty-five other delegates added their signatures one month later. -
Revolutionary war ends
The Revolutionary War ended with the British general Cornwallis surrendering to patriots and a French navy that had him surrounded at Yorktown. He signed the declaration giving us freedom.
