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Stamp Act
The first tax on american colonists that required them to pay for every peice on printed paper they used -
Townshend Act
Imposed duties on glass, lead, paper, and tea -
Boston Massacre
was a street fight that occurred between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry. -
Boston Tea Party
American colonists dumping tea in the boston harbor -
Intolerable Acts
were the American colonists term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
The battle when the British defeated the colonists -
Olive Branch Petition
Was adopted by the Second Continental Congress in a final attempt to avoid a full-on war between the Thirteen Colonies, that the Congress represented, and Great Britain. The petition affirmed American loyalty to Great Britain and entreated the king to prevent further conflict. -
Common Sense
is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain -
Second Continenetal Congress
was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that, soon after warfare, declared the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
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 -
Battle of Trenton
Famous American victory that began with "Washington Crossing the Delaware." Actually, the whole army crossed the Delaware River, which was frozen in places, on Christmas night, 1776, from Pennsylvania to the outskirts of Trenton, New Jersey. -
Battle of Saratoga
Was the turning point of the Revolutionary War. -
Battle of Yorktown
The last battle of the Revolutionary War, fought near the seacoast of Virginia. There the British general Lord Cornwallis surrendered his army to General George Washington. -
Treaty of Paris
A Treaty signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America on, ended the American Revolutionary War.
