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The French Indian War
The French Indian War started when colliding interest in the Ohio river valley arose when the British were expanding west and, the French were expanding south and started killing and capturing British colonizers and traders. It was the French and the Spanish fighting the British. When they were defeated, Spain gave up Florida and France gave up all her North American Territories. In the aftermath the king not allowing colonist to expand west past the mountains. -
The Sugar Act of 1764
The British Parliaments attempt to pay for the Seven Years War. This act put an unfair tax on all sugar related products AND being forced to import sugar souly from the British. This led to American colonist protesting and them wanting representation. -
The Stamp Act Of 1765
This was a further attempt by the British parliament to pay off the war debt. This put a tax on anything stamped This was almost on every purchases. The protests grew and the cry for representation grew louder. -
The Townshend Acts
This act put taxes on everything imported to the colonies. This made the colonies furious, the taxes kept getting add to stuff and they still lacked representation in Parliament. The colonies saw this as an abuse of power by the crown -
Discontent with All the acts.
A few years after the Acts were passed all of them were repealed besides the tax on tea. The repeal was an attempt to eased tension over with colonist, This worked for a time. The colonists were still asking for some level of representation in parliament -
Boston Massacre
This act destroyed all chances of rebuilding trust from the colonies. There was a group of 9 British soldiers who were being verbally and physically abused, by having stuff thrown at them. It is unknown who shouted the command to fire. They ended up shooting 5 people out of a crowd. The act was published as a massacre throughout the colonies and there was outrage at the murder of 5 fellow colonists, -
Boston Tea Party
Was a protest held by the sons of liberty in respond to the high taxes on tea. The demonstrators dressed up native Americans and boarded britsh trade ships full of tea crates and began throwing the crates into the Massachusetts Bay. The British Parliament's response was anger, They sent troops to occupy the city have it be under direct rule the crown -
The Intolerable Acts
Parliments was of punishing the Massachusetts colonist for the Boston Tea Party. This directly ended the colonies self-governance and put it directly under the crown. Parliament hopped this would put Massachusetts in its place and show other colonies not to act out. Other colonies feared that they might have the right to self-govern stripped as well. -
Lexington and Concord
The battles of Lexington and Concord was the very first miliary engagement of the of the revolutionary war. It started when britsh troops were sent to capture a stronghold of weapons at concord, Apon their arrival they only found remnants of the stock hold of weapons that had been there. The British met the colonist met at Lexington, neither side wanted to attack but a mis-shot was fire. The colonist forced the britsh to retreat back to Boston. They had won the first battl but not the war. -
The "writing of Common Sense"
A book written by Thomas Pane, this put the ideas and grievances against the king into common man's terms, this helped make revolution and the cries for it mainstream as well helped fuel the spirt to fight back against the British. This helped congress start seriously considering it. -
The Signing of declaration of Independence
This was our way of formally signing things off with the British and thus no longer part of the empire. As well as a signal to France that we were worth committing resources to. Most if not all of the founding fathers signed on that evening. This was one of the most important steps to fully gaining independence besides the long war ahead. -
Winter of 1776
The winter marked a low point for the Continental Army due to them only having 2,000 soldiers left and them freezing and hungry. The winter had saved them by stopping the britsh advance and them digging in for the winter. This allowed them time to reorganize and plan their next move after the winter lifted. -
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The Battles Of Saratoga
The battle happed over roughly the course of half a month. Where in which the British attempted to invade south from Canada with an invasion force of 7,200 men. Their goal was to take Albany New York. They ended up being surrounded by American Forces. They beat the American forces the first time, On the second time the Americans returned with a much larger force leading to a decisive victory over the british -
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Valley Forge
The Americans had set up an encampment at Valley Forge. This period started marked a triumph of both moral and military discipline over server hardship. Baron Friedrich von Steuben was appointed the unofficial inspector general. Under his training the continental army received its first proper formal training from an experienced general. -
Battle of Stony Point
George Washington took a highly trained select group of the army on a well-planned night-time attack on the British. The britsh lost suffered heavy losses and lost one of their key outposts outside of New York. This site became a key crossing site for the army later in the war. -
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Siege Of Charleston
The Siege ended in the British taking the city. after shifting their forces from the northern to the southern colonies the British set their eyes on Charleston and layed siege to it for 2 months. The Americans defending suffered heavy casualties. After 2 months the general surrenders his forces. This was the largest American surrender of the war. -
Battle Of Kings Mountain
A battle between patriots and loyalist's militias in South Carolina. Apon receiving the information the loyalists attempted to prepare for the battle. when the patriots arrived, the battle broke out and resulted in a patriot victory and helped relight the American moral in the south. -
The Burning Of Richmond Virgina
British Navel Forces worked their way up the James River towards the capital of Virgina and attacked before burning the entire city down to the ground due to them not wanting it to be recaptured. This led to Thomas Jefferson fleeing Virgina all together. -
British Surrender at Yorktown
After Fighting the British for years to gain their independence it all came ahead at Yorktown. After a long battle the British General, General Charles Cornwallis surrendered to American General, George Washington bringing an end to the fighting in the colonies -
Signing Of Treaty Of paris
Representatives Of the British and the Americans met in Paris to sign the treaty to end all conflict between the two countries. As well discuss boundaries between the two nations.
