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Boston Massacre
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Important person: Crispus Attucks, Samuel Adams.
Groups of people: United States, Britain
Why it is significant: It is the first time that colonists died in conflicts. Americans become more angry. -
Boston Tea Party
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Important people: Sons of Liberty
Groups of people: Sons of Liberty
Why it is significant: It caused the relationship between British and colonists to become worse. King Henry was furious. -
1st Continental Congress
Location: Philadelphia
Important people: Patrick Henry, Roger Sherman, Samuel Adams
Groups of people: Delegates of United States
Why it is significant: It was the first time of all the colonists' representatives come to hold an idea of militia. -
Battle of Lexington and concord
Location: Province of Massachusetts
Important people: John Parker
Groups of people: United States, Britain
Winner: United States
Why it is significant: It was the first military engagement during Revolutionary War. -
2nd Continental Congress
Location: Philadelphia
Important People: Peyton Randolph, Benjamin Franklin
Groups of People: Delegates from United States
Why it is significant: They raised armies, directed strategies and appointed diplomats -
Battle of Bunker Hill
Location: Charlestown, Massachusetts
Important people: William Prescot, William Howe
Groups of people: United States, Britain
Winner: Britain
Why it is significant: It was a Pyrrhic victory for Britain in early battles years. -
Battle of Trenton
Location: Trenton, New Jersey
Important People: George Washington
Groups of People: United States, Hesse-Kassel
Winner: United States
Why it is significant: Americans overturned the psychological dominate achived by the British Government troops in the previous months. -
Battle of Saratoga
Location: New York
Important People: Horatio Gates
Groups of People: United States, Britain
Winner: United States
Why it is Significant: It is considered as the turning point of Revolutionary War, it changes the situation from the two sides balanced to the Americans were winning. -
Treaty of Alliance
Location: Paris
Groups of people: Delegates from America, delegates from France
Why it is significant: Americans come to France with French formal supporting. -
Battle of Guilford Court House
Location:Guildford county, North Carolina
Important people: Nathanael, Greene
Group of people: United States, Britain
Winner: Britain
Why it is signification:It was a Pyrrhic victory ofor Britain, but an advantage for USA. -
Siege of Yorktown
Location: Yorktown, Virginia
Important People: George Washington, Alexander Hamilton
Groups of People: United States, Britain
Winner: United States
Why it is significant: It was considered as the last war in a large scale during Revolutionary War, and Britain surrendered -
Treaty of Paris
Location: Paris
Important People: Representatives from Britain and USA
Groups of People: Britain, USA
Why it is significant: It was the ending of the revolution war and other country acknowledge USA become a country.
