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The French and Indian War
This war was between Great Britain and the french and indian from North America.
It was mostly the colonists (George Washington) who were fighting against England. The British won the war and won the right to keep Canada and other possessions in the New World. -
The Sugar Act
This was about the tax on foreign sugar, on coffee, indigo, and different kinds of wine. The taxes were adopted without discussion by the colonists. -
The Stamp Act
Every newspaper, pamphlet and others should have a british stamp on it. But the problem was that they insisted to have money for it and the colonists didn’t want to pay.
All that ended up in demonstrations. To see all that was making the British government to repeal it in 1766. -
The Stamp Act Congress
The Stamp Act Congress, was a meeting held between October 7 and 25, 1765 in New York City.
It was all representatives from some of the British colonists. They were all together to make a protest against the taxes. Parliament repealed the Stamp Act in 1766. -
Townshend Acts
This was the same issue as The Stamp Act and -congress. Charles Townshend had his name named by new laws, which was taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea.
Great Britain repealed the all of the taxes except for the tea. -
The Boston Massacre
It was an incident in which British Army soldiers killed five civilian men and injured six others.Amid ongoing tense relations between the population and the soldiers, a mob formed around a British sentry, who was subjected to verbal abuse and harassment. He was eventually supported by eight additional soldiers, who were subjected to verbal threats and thrown objects. -
The Boston Tea Party
The tax on the tea went the american colonists to dumb over 300 boxes of tea in the harbor because of their frustration and anger.
Similar incidents was seen in Maryland, New Jersey, and New York later on. -
The First Continental Congress
People from the colonists came together to act in response to the problematic acts. They met in secret because they didn't want Great Britain to know that they had a meeting.
The First Continental Congress, which met briefly in Philadelphia in 1774, consisted of 56 delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies that would become the United States. the delegates organized an economic boycott of Great Britain in protest and petitioned the king for a redress of grievances. -
The First Continental Congress
People from the colonists came together to act in response to the problematic acts. They met in secret because they didn't want Great Britain to know that they had a meeting.
The First Continental Congress, which met briefly in Philadelphia in 1774, consisted of 56 delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies that would become the United States. the delegates organized an economic boycott of Great Britain in protest and petitioned the king for a redress of grievances. -
The Battles of Lexington and Concord
First shots fired between American and British troops, on April 19, 1775.
The British troops marched through Concord because they’ve heard about the firearm depot.
Suddenly both sides was in open fire. Nobody
knew who fired the first shot. The American troops had to stand back. -
The Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress decided many important things. At the Congress, they decided to completely break away from Great Britain. On May 15, 1776, they decided to officially put the colonies in a state of defense.
-Another thing they decided they had to do was to organize the militia of the colonies better. So, they decided to form an army called the American Continental Army. On June 14, 1776, the Congress officially appointed George Washington as commander-in-chief of the army. He was -
George Washington named Commander in Chief
He was the first president of America and the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. After the Battles of Lexington and Concord near Boston in April 1775, the colonies went to war. Washington appeared at the Second Continental Congress in a military uniform, signaling that he was prepared for war. Washington had the prestige, military experience, charisma and military bearing of a military leader and was known as a strong patriot. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
The Americans had occupied Breed's Hill in Charlestown on June 16, 1775.
The next day the Britain troops attacked.
It was important for the american troops not to waste their ammunition. The battle is today known as Battle Bunker Hill, even though the battle found it’s place at Breed’s Hill. -
Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" published
Was an English-American political activist, author, political theorist. Paine emigrated to the British American colonies in 1774. -
Declaration of Independence signed
It was John Hancock, John Adams, and Samuel Adams who signed it. -
The British evacuate Boston
forces are forced to evacuate Boston following Patriot General George Washington's successful placement of fortifications and cannons on Dorchester Heights.
The 4th of march began a big bombardement of the outskirts of the city.
The morning, 5th, a lot of canons had been brought within the Dorchester Heights fortifications. -
Richard Henry Lee proposes Independence
The Lee Resolution is presented to the Second Continental Congress. Richard Henry Lee was from the Virginia colony. He was instructed by the President of the Virginia Convention, to propose the resolution to the august men debating the future of the American Colonies. Pendleton spoke on Wednesday, May 15, 1776 to 112 Members of the Virginia Convention calling for independence from the British Empire. He sent the text of his speech to Richard Lee who then presented it to the Continental Congress -
Declaration of Independence adopted
The Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that 13 American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.
