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Unit 3- Timeline
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Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 prohibited American colonists from settling 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
The British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers, legal and commercial documents. -
Townshend Act
Acts passed, beginning in 1767, by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. The acts are named after Charles Townshend, -
Boston Massacre
A street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed. -
Tea Act
a series of policies and taxes imposed by Britain on the American colonies. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of liberty in Boston. -
Intolerable Acts
Punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. -
First Continental Congress
The 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. -
Edenton Tea Party
One of the earliest organized women's political actions in US history, fifty-one women in Edenton, North Carolina. -
Paul Revere
Paul Revere took a part in the boston Tea Party. Also he devised a system of lanterns to warn the minutemen of a British invasion, setting up his famous ride on April 18, 1775. -
Battle at Lexington and Concord
This battle kicked off the American REvolutionary War. Hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting on the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
Mecklenburg Resolves
A list of statements adopted at Charlotte, in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. THe MEcklenburg Resolves was drafted in the month following the fighting at Lexington and Concord. -
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. -
Bunker Hill
The British defeated the Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill in Massachusetts. -
Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge
Was a battle fought during the Revolutionary War. The victory ended British authority in NC and provided an important boost to Patriot confidence. -
Halifax Resolves
The Halifax Resolves' name later given to a resolution adopted by the Fourth Provincial Congress of the Province of North Carolina. The resolution was a forerunner of the United States Declaration of Independence.A copy of the Halifax Resolves was printed subsequently across the American colonies. -
Declaration of Independance
British soldiers began in April 1775, the Americans were apparantly fighting only for their rights. By the following summer, with the Revolutionary War in full swing, the movement for independance from Britain had grown, and delegates of the Continental Congress were faced with a vote on the issue. -
Battle of Ticonderoga
a British approach that forced a small french army troops to withdraw, because they forgot to lock the gate. -
Winter at Valley Forge
The Winter at Valley Forge started December 19, 1777 to June 19, 1778. The 12,000 men and women of the Continental Army who arrived in Valley Forge. British troops had marched proudly into Philadelphia the past autumn. Washington's army had spent the summer of 1777 fighting a string of losing battles. General George Washington, were half-starved and no longer believed they could win a war of independence from Britain. -
Battle of Kings Mountains
Was one of the major battles in the war, and was fought with militias and not a continental army. -
Battle of Guilford Courthouse
American and British forces faught for several hours near Guilford Courthouse. The battle was the culmination of several months of hard campaigning by the armies of Nathanael Greene and Charles Cornwallis. The battle led to the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. -
Battle of Yorktown
On 1781, General George Washington, commanding a force of 17,000 French and Continental troops, begin the siege known as the Battle of Yorktown against British General Lord Charles Cornwallis and a chance of 9,000 British troops at Yorktown, Virginia, in the most important battle of the Revolutionary War. -
Treaty of Paris- 1783
The Treaty of Paris, negotiated between the United States and Great Britain, ended the revolutionary war and recognized American independence.
