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Proclamation of 1763
Stopped the colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains -
Sugar Act
Taxed imported sugar, wine, molasses, and coffee; allowed British officers to try offenders; stopped the colonies from exporting lumber and iron -
Stamp Act
Required colonists to pay a direct tax on all paper. Colonists had to use stamped paper for all printed materials. -
Townshend Acts
Taxed the import of paper, lead, glass and tea. Set up British courts to enforce the acts -
Boston Massacre
was a street fight that between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. -
Boston Tea Party
In Boston Harbor, a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships and dump 342 chests of tea into the harbor.was in protest of the British Parliament’s Tea Act of 1773, a bill designed to save the faltering East India Company by greatly lowering its tea tax and granting it a virtual monopoly on the American tea trade -
First Continental Congress
Was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
Intolerable Acts
Closed Boston's port to all trade except with England. Expanded the power of the British governor. -
Edenton Tea Party
The Edenton Tea Party was one of the earliest organized women's political actions in United States history -
Paul Revere
Paul Revere was sent for by Dr. Joseph Warren and instructed to ride to Lexington, Massachusetts, to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British troops were marching to arrest them -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
The first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
Second Continental Congress
Was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer -
Mecklenburg Resolves
Was a list of statements adopted at Charlotte, in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina on May 31, 1775; drafted in the month following the fighting at Lexington and Concord. -
Continental Army
Was formed after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War by the colonies that became the United States of America. -
Bunker Hill
The British defeated the Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill in Massachusetts. -
Tea Act
Flooded the market with British tea that was cheaper than American tea -
Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge
Just beyond the bridge nearly 1,000 North Carolina patriots waited quietly with cannons and muskets poised to fire. This dramatic victory ended British rule in the colony forever. -
Halifax Resolves
The name later given to a resolution adopted by the Fourth Provincial Congress of the Province of North Carolina -
Declaration of Independence
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Battle of Ticonderoga
A British army approach that forced the Continental Army to withdraw. -
Winter at Valley Forge
Valley Forge was where the American Continental Army made camp during the winter of 1777-1778. It was here that the American forces became a true fighting unit. Valley Forge is often called the birthplace of the American Army. -
Battle of Kings Mountain
Thomas Jefferson called it "The turn of the tide of success." The battle of Kings Mountain, fought October 7th, 1780, was an important American victory during the Revolutionary War. -
Battle at Guilford Courthouse
proved pivotal to the American victory in the American Revolutionary War (1775-83). Although British troops under Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis (1738-1805) scored a tactical victory at Guilford Courthouse over American forces under Major General Nathanael Greene (1742-86), the British suffered significant troop losses during the battle. Afterward, Cornwallis abandoned his campaign for the Carolinas and instead took his army into Virginia, where in October of that year he surrendered to G -
Battle of Yorktown
General George Washington, commanding a force of 17,000 French and Continental troops, begins the siege known as the Battle of Yorktown against British General Lord Charles Cornwallis and a contingent of 9,000 British troops at Yorktown, Virginia, in the most important battle of the Revolutionary War. -
Treaty of Paris (1783)
negotiated between the United States and Great Britain, ended the revolutionary war and recognized American independence. The Continental Congress named a five-member commission to negotiate a treaty–John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, and Henry Laurens. Laurens, however, was captured by a British warship and held in the Tower of London until the end of the war, and Jefferson did not leave the United States in time to take part in the negotiations. Thus, they were conducte
