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Proclamation of 1763
Description of event: Prohibited american settlers from moving west of the Mississippi
Significance: Major contributing factor to the american revolution -
Boston Massacre
Description of event: was a street fight, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry.
Significance: this made the already tight tensions between colonial America and the british tighter until finally they snapped in 1775 thus starting the revolutionary war -
Boston Tea Party
Description of event: was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773. Disguised as American Indians, the demonstrators hurt no one but destroyed the entire supply of tea sent by the East India Company in defiance of the American boycott of tea carrying a tax the Americans had not authorized. They boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into Boston Harbor, ruining the tea.
Significance: The British government responded harshly and the episode escalated in -
Lexington and Concord
Description of event: were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War
Significance:,The battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in the mainland of British North America. -
Fort Ticonderoga
Description: The Capture of Fort Ticonderoga occurred during the American Revolutionary War when a small force of Green Mountain Boys led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold overcame a small British garrison at the fort and looted the personal belongings of the garrison. Cannons and other armaments from the fort were transported to Boston and used to fortify Dorchester Heights and break the standoff at the Siege of Boston.
Significance:the first American victory of the Revolutionary war -
Bunker HIll
Description of event: happened during the Siege of Boston early in the American Revolutionary War. The battle is named after the adjacent Bunker Hill, which was peripherally involved in the battle and was the original objective of both colonial and British troops, and is occasionally referred to as the "Battle of Breed's Hill."
Significance:constituted the first major battle of the American Revolution -
Olive Branch Petition
Description of event: was adopted by the Continental Congress in a final attempt to avoid a full-blown war between the Thirteen Colonies that the Congress represented, and Great Britain.
Significance: petition was meant to be to end the war with a peaceful conclusion -
Publishing common sense
Description of event: Common Sense challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy. The plain language that Paine used spoke to the common people of America.
Significance: First to openly ask for independence from Great Britain -
Dorchester Heights
Description: troops from the Continental Army occupied Dorchester Heights, and mounted powerful cannons there. The commander of the British forces occupying the city, considered contesting this act, as the cannon threatened the town and the military ships in the harbor. After a snowstorm prevented execution of his plans, Howe decided instead to withdraw from the city.
Significance:was a point of strategic importance due to its elevation and commanding view of all of Boston and Boston Harbor. -
Declaration of Independence
Description of event: is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.
Significance: it was when we finally declared independence from britain -
Trenton
Description of event: Washington lead the main body of the Continental Army against Hessian soldiers garrisoned at Trenton. After a brief battle, nearly the entire Hessian force was captured, with negligible losses to the Americans.
Significance: The battle significantly boosted the Continental Army's flagging morale, and inspired re enlistments. -
Princeton
Description of event: George Washington, Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, repulsed a British attack at the Battle of the Assunpink Creek in Trenton.
Significance:gave the Americans confidence they could stand up to British regulars in battle -
Saratoga
Description of event: conclusively decided the fate of British General John Burgoyne's army in the American War of Independence and are generally regarded as a turning point in the war. Two battles were fought eighteen days apart on the same ground, .
Significance:was known as the turning point of the American Revolutionary War, the french allied themselves with the americans -
Valley Forge
lasted DECEMBER 19, 1777, June 19, 1778 Description of event: Valley Forge in Pennsylvania was the site of the military camp of the American Continental Army over the winter during the American Revolutionary War.
Significance: Washington earned their respect in the battles ahead for staying with them on the cold nights -
Yorktown
Lasted September 28 - October 19, 1781
Descriptiont: was a victory by a combined force of American Continental troops and French troops. The culmination of the Yorktown campaign, the siege proved to be the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War, as the surrender by Cornwallis, and the capture of both him and his army, prompted the British government to negotiate an end to the conflict.
Significance: it marked the 'beginning of the end' of the American Revolutinary war. -
Treaty of Paris
Description of event: ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain on one side and the United States of America and its allies on the other.
Significance: Ended the war
