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The Sugar Act
Colonists were forced to pay a tax for sugar and sugar products like molasses and rum. -
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The American revolution and the events leading up to it.
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Events leading up to the revolutionary war.
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The Stamp Act
A tax was placed on most printed Items, including newspapers and legal documents such as marrage papers and wills. -
The Townshend Acts
Taxes on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper, and tea. -
The Boston Massacare
A fight between Brittish soliders and angry colonists in which several colonists died. -
The Boston Tea Party
several colonists droped 342 chests odf tea into Boston Harbor in reaction to the Tea Act, a tax placed on all brittish tea. -
The Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were laws that were really punishments that King George III put on the colonies. He did this to the Colonists because he wanted to punish them for dumping tea into the harbor at the Boston Tea Party. The Quakers petitioned King George to repeal or end the acts, but he said that the colonies must submit to these English laws. -
Lexington and Concord
Britain's General Gage had a secret plan. He sent out British soliders to Lexington to capture Samuel Adams and John Hancock. They went to Concord to steal the colonists' weapons. American spies leaked Gage's plan. A series of horseback riders warned the colonists that the British were coming. -
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The Revolutionary War
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Bunker Hill
Battle of Bunker Hill accurred on the Charlestown Peninsula on the North side of Boston Harbor. The British troops of the Boston garrison fought against troops of the American Continental Army. It was 2,400 British troops against 1,500 Americans. -
Common Sense
Common Sense was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine. The pamphlet included the laws that he believed in. -
The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence, Also known as the birth certificate of America, was written by Thomas Jefferson and adopted by Congress on July 4th. -
The Battle of Trenton
The Battle where george washington crossed the Deleware River to take trenton, where about 100 Hessians were killed. -
The Battle of Ticonderoga
The Battle of Ticonderoga took place on Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain, New York State. The British, Hessians, and Brunswickers all fought against the American colonists. It was 7,213 regular British, Hessian, and Brunswick troops and some 150 Canadians against Americans.
