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Paul Revere
Paul Revere was an American silversmith, engraver, early industrialist, and a patriot in the American Revolution -
Proclamation of 1763
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, 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, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act, also known as the American Revenue Act, was a revenue-raising act passed by the British Parliament in April 1764. -
Stamp act
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. -
Townshend Act
The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed, beginning in 1767, by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a patriot mob throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers -
Tea act
The Tea Act was the final straw in a series of unpopular policies and taxes imposed by Britain on her American colonies -
Boston Tea Party
Three British ships in Boston Harbor in which Boston colonists, disguised as Indians, threw the contents of several hundred chests of tea into the harbor as a protest against British taxes on tea and against the monopoly granted the East India Company. -
Intolerable Acts
The laws, that became known as the Intolerable Acts, were all passed in 1774 as British reprisals to the Boston Tea Party -
Battle at Lexington and Concord
The Edenton Tea Party was one of the earliest organized women's political actions in United States history -
Edenton Tea Party
The Edenton Tea Party was one of the earliest organized women's political actions in United States history. -
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 -
Battle at Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer -
Mecklenburg Resolves
The 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
The Continental Army was formed after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary. -
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 Battle of Bunker Hill was a battle fought on June 17, 1775, during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War. -
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, North Carolina -
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 -
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 the statement adopted by the Continental Congress meeting a Philadelphia -
Winter at Valley Forge
Valley Forge was the military camp in southeastern Pennsylvania, approximately 20 miles northwest of Philadelphia, where the American Continental Army spent the winter of 1777–1778 during the American Revolutionary War -
Battle of Kings Mountain
The Battle of Kings Mountain was a decisive victory in the South Carolina for the Patriot militia over the Loyalist militia in the Southern campaign of the American Revolutionary War. -
Battle at Guilford Courthouse
The Battle of Guilford Court house was a battle fought i March 15 1781 -
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
After signing the Treaty of Paris John Adams informed congress in a letter dated in September 5 1783 on Wednesday the 3rd of this month the American ministers met the British minister at his lodgings at the Hotel de York and signed, sealed, and delivered the definitive treaty of peace