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Treaty of Paris
It marks the end of the French and Indian war. It kicked the French out of America. -
Sugar Act
The sugar act was a law passed to raise the tax revenue in the colonies for the British. -
Stamp Act Congress
The stamp act Congress was an assembly which brought together 27 delegates from nine colonies. -
Townshend Acts
There was a tax on glass, white lead, paper, paint, and tea. -
Boston Massacre
A clash between British soldiers and some angry townspeople. -
Committees of Correspondence
Organizations that were founded by Samuel Adams and they were used to spread the spirit of resistance. -
Boston Tea Party
Bostonians who dressed as Indians to sneak on ships to throw out the tea into the harbor. -
Intolerable Acts
Chartered rights were taken away and restrictions were placed on town meetings. -
First Continental Congress
A meeting in Philadelphia to consider colonial grievances. -
Battle at Lexington and Concord
British troops went to seize colonial gunpowder and to kill their leaders. The minutemen fought back and eight were killed and more were wounded. -
Second Continental Congress
The Continental Congress met again, but this time all thirteen colonies were represented. They drafted new appeals to the king. They also looked for ways to raise money for the military. -
Olive Branch Petition
The Continental Congress created this petition to ask for the king to prevent further hostility and profess loyalty to the crown. But they were declined. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
The colonists had seized Bunker hill and when the British attacked they were destroyed. -
Publication of Common Sense
An influential pamphlet written by Thomas Paine. -
Declaration of Independence
A declaration of natural rights that established what was right and wrong. -
Battle of Long Island
The attacked the Americans with the largest armed force seen in America and the colonists lost, but Washington managed to get away. -
Drafting of the Model Treaty
The Continental Congress drafted the Model Treaty to gain in the fight help from the French. -
Battle at Trenton
Washington lead a group of soldiers to surprise attack across the Delaware river. -
Armed Neutrality
Catherine the Great, leader of Russia, organized the Armed Neutrality which was a group of European neutrals in an act of hostility towards Great Britain. -
Treaty of Paris(1783)
The British recognized America’s independence and the war would end. -
Treaty of Fort Stanwix
It was a treaty between the United States and the Iroquois Indians were the Indians would lose some of their land.
