Woods American Revolution

By Hwoods
  • french and indian war

    french and indian war
    The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war provided Great Britain with a lot of territorial gains in North America, and paying the war's expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution.
  • Treaty of 1763

    Treaty of 1763
    The treaty of paris of 1763 ended the french and indian war. seven years war between great britain and france as well as their respective allies. In the treaty it says , France gave up all its territories in mainland North America, effectively ending any foreign military threat to the British colonies there.
  • proclamation of 1763

    proclamation of 1763
    The royal proclamation of 1763 was issued by king georg the 3rd on october the 7th 1763 following Great Britain's of French territory in North Americ after the end of the Seven Years War. It stopped all settlement west along the Appalachian Mountains
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    The Stamp Act of 1765 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which said a direct tax on the British colonies in America and required that most printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying a revenue stamp
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    The Boston Massacre was a confrontation on March 5, 1770 in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston. The event was heavily publicized by leading Patriots such as Paul Revere and Samuel Adams
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    The Boston Tea Party was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773.
    The reason that the boston tea party happend was because there was taxation without representation. New americans felt like great britian was being unfiar and making ut hard for the country to start off
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts
    The Intolerable Acts were laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws were meant to hurt the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest the reason they did this was because britian was taxing. and the word for that is no taxation without represntation
  • Battles of Lexington and Concord

    Battles of Lexington and Concord
    The Battles of Lexington and Concord was the one of the first battles in the American Revolutionary War.The battles were fought on April 19, 1775, Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge.
  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    Battle of Bunker Hill
    The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on June 17 1775 during the early stages of the American Revolutionary War. The battle is named after Bunker Hill in Charlestown.
  • Publication of Common Sense

    Publication of Common Sense
    Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. Writing in clear and persuasive prose, Paine marshaled moral and political arguments to encourage common people in the Colonies to fight for egalitarian government.
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence
    "The United States Declaration of Independence is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776." Wikipedia
  • Battle of Trenton

    Battle of Trenton
    General George Washington's army went to Delaware on Christmas Day 1776 and the next 10 days won two crucial battles of the American Revolution. In the Battle of Trenton December 26, Washington defeated Hessian mercenaries before stopping
  • Battle of Saratoga

    Battle of Saratoga
    the battle of Battle of Saratoga was a big battle for america and a big victory to the America over the British in the American Revolutionary War.
  • Valley Forge

    Valley Forge
    Valley Forge commanded by General George Washington, during the American Revolutionary War. In September 1777, Congress left Philadelphia to escape the British.
  • Battle of Cowpens

    Battle of Cowpens
    The Battle of Cowpens was during the American Revolutionary War fought on January 17, 1781 near Cowpens, South Carolina, between U.S. forces under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan and British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Sir Banastre Tarleton.
  • Battle of Yorktown

    Battle of Yorktown
    where the british surrender. They surrenderd to george washington. The batle took place on september 28th 1781.
  • treaty of Paris 1783

    treaty of Paris 1783
    The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by king George the 3rd of Great Britain and representatives of the usa on September 3, 1783, which ended the American Revolutionary War.