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George Washington named Commander in Chief
George Washington named Commander in Chief commanded the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), and was the first President of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. -
French and Indian War
French and Indian War was pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France, with both sides supported by military units from their parent countries of Great Britain and France. -
Treaty of Paris 1763
Treaty of Paris 1763 was signed on 10 February 1763 by the kingdoms of Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal in agreement, after Great Britain's victory over France and Spain during the Seven years' War. -
Proclamation Line of 1763
Proclamation Line of 1763 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
Sugar Act was a revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on April 5, 1764. -
Stamp Act
Stamp Act was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain that imposed a direct tax on the colonies of British America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London. -
Declaratory Act
Declaratory Act was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the Sugar Act. -
Townshend Revenue Acts
Townshend Revenue Acts was to raise revenue in the colonies to pay the salaries of governors and judges so that they would remain loyal to Great Britain. -
Boston Massacre
Boston Massacre was a incident in which British Army soldiers shot and killed people while under intense attack by a mob. -
Boston Tea Party
Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16,1773. -
The Tea Act
The Tea Act was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive. -
Quartering act of 1774
Quartering act of 1774 is a name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations and housing. -
Intolerable Acts
Intolerable Acts were the American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. -
First Continental Congress
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. -
Second Continental Congress
Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the spring of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. -
Patrick Henry’s “Give Me Liberty or Give Me death” speech
Patrick Henry’s “Give Me Liberty or Give Me death” speech is a quotation attributed to Patrick Henry from a speech he made to the Second Virginia Convention on March 23, 1775, at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
Olive Branch Petition
Olive Branch Petition was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 5, 1775 in a final attempt to avoid a full-on war between Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies, which the Congress represented. -
Thomas Paine writes “Common Sense”
Thomas Paine writes “Common Sense” is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. -
Declaration of Independence
Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House (Independence Hall) in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer under British rule.
