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Proclamation of 1763
The purpose of this document was to keep colonists from going westward past the Applachain Mountains. King George III sent troops to secure the border. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act taxed on sugar and molasses imported by merchants for six pence a gallon of sugar or molasses from foregin countries. -
The Stamp Act
This act taxed on every printed piece of paper that the colonists used and imported even playing cards were taxed. -
The Townshend Acts
These were a series of four acts that started on June 15, 1767 and all four were signed by July 2, 1767. They exerted power over the colonies. -
Boston Massacre
A street fight between a "patriot" mob and a squad of British soldiers that took the lives of 5 colonists and sparked the Revolutionary War. -
The Tea Act
This act taxed the import of all tea that was brung into the colonies in all ports at that time. -
The Boston Tea Party
This act was carried out by the Sons of Liberty, to where they dumped tons of pounds of tea into the Boston Harbor to force the British to repeal the act. -
The Intolerable Acts
These acts were passd to punish the colonists for what happend at the Boston Tea Party. These were the three acts that pushed the colonists to the edge. -
The First Continental Congress
Twelve represenatives from each colony eccept for Georgia met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from September 5, 1774 to October 26, 1774 to discuss the problems with the British and if they should declare war on Britain. -
The Edenton Tea Party
Fifty-one women met in Edenton, North Carolina to discuss the raised taxes on tea and was one of the earliest organized women's political acts in the Revolution of the American Colonies. -
Paul Revere
April 18th, 1775 was when Paul Revere rode his horse to deliver the news that the British were coming. He was born on January 1st, 1735 and died May 10th, 1818. He was/is considered one of the heroes of the Revolutionary War. He was taken prisoner by the British before the famous ride was over. -
The Battle of Lexington and Concord
The first millitarized combat between the "patriots" and the British loyal to the british crown (Loyalist Soldiers). The British Loyalists were sent to seize arms and ammunition. -
The "Battle" of Fort Ticonderoga
This Seige was led by two men and this fort was captured by the famous Green Mountain Boys. Ethan Allen the hard drinker and the famous future trader Benedict Arnold. They seized the fort and the front gate was open and all of the soldiers were asleep. -
Second Continental Congress
A convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare, the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
Mecklenburg Resolves
This document was adopted by the colony of North Carolina that described that the colony declared its independence from the crown of Britain and was written the following month after the Battles of Lexington and Concord. -
Bunker Hill
This Battle was actually fought on Breeds Hill and some people/scholars speculate that the British had the wrong name for the hill on their maps but the name stuck. The British took control of the hill after three failed tries because the colonists ran out of ammunition. The British forces were cut down that was a good thing for the colonists eventhough they lost Breeds Hill. -
Continental Army
The Revolutionary War Army, authorized by the Continental Congress in 1775 and led by George Washington. 6,000 tropps within the army. -
The Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge
Scottish highlanders were summond by the British to destroy the North Carolina militia at Moore's Creek Bridge and to take control of the bridge and horrifically failed because some of the boards from the bridge were missing. -
Hailfax Resolve
The name later given to a resolution adopted by the Fourth Provincial Congress of the Province of North Carolina on April 12, 1776. The resolution was a forerunner of the United States Declaration of Independence. -
The Declaration of Independence
The formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain. An example of the Declaration of Independence was the document adopted at the Second Continental Congress on July 4th, 1776. -
Winter at Valley Forge
A valley in eastern Pennsylvania that served as quarters for the American army in one winter (1777–1778) of the Revolutionary War. George Washington, who was commanding the army, had been forced to leave Philadelphia, and his troops suffered from the cold and from lack of supplies. -
Battle of King's Mountain
The Battle of Kings Mountain was a decisive victory in 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 on March 15, 1781, at a site which is now in Greensboro, the county seat of Guilford County, North Carolina, during the American Revolutionary War. -
Battle of Yorktown
The Siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown, the Surrender at Yorktown or the German Battle, ending on October 19, 1781 at Yorktown, Virginia, was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French Army troops led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by British lord and Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis. -
The Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War.
