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French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War. -
Sugar Act
It reduced the rate of tax on molasses from six pence to three pence per gallon. listed more foreign goods to be taxed including sugar, wines, coffee, pimiento, cambric, calico. it was important was the raising of taxes on foreign goods. -
Stamp Act
The first internal tax imposed directly on American colonists by the British government. Which imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies, happened when the British Empire was deep in debt from the Seven Years’ War. -
The Boston Massacre
A group of British soldiers came to support a sentry who was being pressed by an interrupting. They let loose and shot a volley of shots. Three people were killed immediately and two died later due to their wounds; a man of black or Indian parentage died in the firing. -
The Tea Act
Granted the British East India Company of Tea, and control of the supply or trade in the service. On tea sales in the American colonies. This was what ultimately to force a group of Sons of Liberty members who disguised themselves as Mohawk Indians, and destroyed over 92,000 pounds of tea. -
The Boston Tea Party
In Boston Harbor, a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships and dump 342 chests of tea into the harbor. -
Boston Port Act
their government closed the port of Boston and demanding that the city’s residents pay for the nearly $1 million worth. sending payback due to the dumping of tea into Boston Harbor during the Boston Tea Party of December 16, 1773. -
The Quartering Act 1774
Outlined the locations and conditions in which British soldiers are to find room and board in the American colonies. leaving a British soldier in every household. -
Patrick Henry's “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” Speech
Patrick Henry was one of the most famous calls to arms in American history, and during a meeting of the Second Virginia Convention at St. John’s Church in Richmond, Patrick Henry gave a plea urging the Old Dominion to form militias to defend itself against the British. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
kicked off the American Revolutionary War.Tensions had been growing for many years between residents of the 13 colonies and the British authorities. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
The British were going to send troops from Boston to occupy/ view and scope out the hills surrounding the city, some 1,000 colonial militiamen. the town by near whhere this battle was built earthen fortifications on top of Breed’s Hill, and that is why it is the battle of the bunker hill because it is happening -
George Washington is Named Commander in Chief
George Washington, who was one and our first president, accepts a task to lead the Continental Army. -
Thomas Paine Writes Common Sense
Writer Thomas Paine writes and publishes his pamphlet “Common Sense,” demanding forth on his arguments in favour of American independence. -
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Declaration of Independence is written and signed
At the Second Continental Congress during 1776, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia was instructed with drafting a formal statement justifying the 13 North American colonies’ break away from Great Britain gaining independence from Great Britin -
Battle of Ticonderoga
The Battle of Fort Ticonderoga was the first American victory during Revolutionary War. Less than a hundred militiamen crossed Lake Champlain at dawn, surprising and capturing the still-sleeping British garrison at Fort Ticonderoga. -
Battle of Saratoga
This war was Fought eighteen days apart during fall. British General John Burgoyne gained a small expensive victory over the American Forces. Though after the battle his troop strength had fallen and became weaker, he attacked the Americans once again though this time was defeated and forced to retreat. -
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Battle of Yorktown
George Washington, with 17,000 French forces and Continental troops, begins the siegeon British General Lord Charles Cornwallis and a contingent of 9,000 British troops at Yorktown, Virginia, in the most important and last battle of the Revolutionary War. -
General Cornwallis surrenders to Washington
British General Charles Cornwallis formally surrenders with 8,000 British soldiers with him and his sailing crew to a French and American force at Yorktown and briought the American Revolution to a close. -
Peace Treaty Signed ending the American Revolution
An arrange between the United States and Great Britain which ended the revolutionary war and recognised American independence. Continental Congress named a five-member commission to negotiate a treaty; John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, and Henry Laurens. -
Alliance is Made between Rebels and the French
French representative notified the British government that France had officially recognized the United States as an independent nation with the signing of The Treaty of Alliance and The Treaty of Amity and Commerce.
