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Paul Revere
Paul Revere was a american that was a early patriot of american revoultion. -
Battle of Ticonderoga
A British had a approach that forced a small French garrison to withdraw. Battle of Ticonderoga (1775) or Capture of Fort Ticonderoga, a surprise capture of the fort by the Americans. -
Proclamation of 1763
The Royal Proclamation was issued by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, and which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
Stamp act of 1765
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament and the new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licensesand newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were and dice were required for taxes. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party (initially referred to by John Adams as "the Destruction of the Tea in Boston") was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, -
Intolerable Act
The Intolerable Acts were the American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
Second Continental Congress
Was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer and in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was soon after warfare, the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
Mecklenburg Resolves
The Mecklenburg Resolves, or Charlotte Town Resolves, was a list of statements adopted at Charlotte, in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina drafted in the month following the fighting at Lexington and Concord. -
Bunker Hill
The Battle of Bunker Hill was a battle fought on the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War. -
Continental Army
The Continental Army was formed after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War by the colonies that became the United States of America. -
Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge
The Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge was a battle of the American Revolutionary War fought near Wilmington in present-day Pender County. -
The Halifax Resolves
The Halifax Resolves is the name later given to a resolution adopted by the Fourth Provincial Congress of the Province of North Carolina. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is defined as the formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain. An example of the Declaration of Independence was the document adopted. -
Battle of Kings Mountain
The Battle of Kings Mountain was a decisive victory in South Carolina for the Patriot militia over the Loyalist militia in the Southern campaign of the American Revolutionary War. -
The Battle of Guilford
The Battle of Guilford Court House was a battle fought at a site which is the county seat of Guilford County, North Carolina, during the American Revolutionary War. -
Battle of Yorktown
The Siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown, the Surrender at Yorktown or the German Battle. -
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. -
Valley Forge
Pennsylvania had served as quarters for the American army in one winter the Revolutionary War. George Washington, who was commanding the army and had been forced to leave Philadelphia, and his troops suffered from the cold and from lack of supplies.
