Revelutionary war
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- Bunker Hill
- A British fourt outside Boston
- Stamp Act Congress
- A meeting of people who got together and meet about what they sould do about the tax
- Stamp Act
- A tax on all paper goods in the coloniese and was the first inforcd tax
- French & Indian War
- The in wich Britain faced France, the natives, and spain, over the tarratory of the americas
- Townsend Acts
- This a was brithis tax on paint, glass, paper, and tea
- Declaration of Independence
- A document written by Tomas Jefferecne that made america it's own contrie
- Lexington & Concord
- The first battle of the war. British marching throught and plau review warrens the minute men who meet and fight British
- Ticonderoga
- A battle the Wasington won the increased morale and made French join the war
- "Common Sense"
- This was a panfilite written by Tomas Pain and is was first real satment htta america should become it's own contrie
- First Continental Congress
- This was a meeting of inportant rebal war figures meet and decided to make the containetale army
- Treaty of Paris 1783
- A treaty between Britain and American were america gained all land east of the mississipi
- Valley Forge
- This was were Wasington camped his troup for the winter in 1778-1779
- Battle of Bunker Hill
- This was the first real battle of the war. Even thought the americans lost they defeated more soilders then the English
- Second Continental Congress
- Again the inportant figures meet and made the Decaration of independance making them a contrie
- Olive Branch Petition
- A document sent to the king from the cononist that tried to end the war before started but king turrened down
- Proclamation Act
- This made it so the colonists could not settle west of the apolations to not upset the natives
- Yorktown
- The final battle of the war were the brithis were soronded by the french and Americans and defeated
- Treaty of Paris 1763
- After the french and indean war people from alls side met and gave all land east of the mississipi and canada to England
- Quartering Act
- This made it that the local goverments of the colonises had to come up with food and selter for the soldiers
- Saratoga
- This was a battle between the fruntire men and the British. When the Fountire men won the destroryed all British power in the frontier
- Coercive Acts
- This act closed the port of bosten in responce to the tea party and would not open untill it was payed. It also made Gage govanere of Masacusets and gave even less power to the people
- Boston Tea Party
- In responce to the tax on tes a mob of angry colonist dressed as mohawk indeans came on to English boats and through there tea into the water
- Declaratory Act
- This was the act when the brithis made it so that thye had allpower in the colonists goverment
- Boston Massacre
- When a bunch of agry citizens made a mob around Brithis soilder out of fright the soilders firided at them
- salutary neglect
- The policy of weakly enforcing laws that Egland used in ruling the american colonies in much of the late 1600s and early 1700s.