- The Battle of Saratoga
Aug 16, 1777The British needed supplies so they went to look for supplies
- Ticonderoga
1777The Americans attacked the British while they were sleeping. The Americans proudly took there victory.
- Battle of Saratoga
1777The British needed supplies so they went from town to town to find some. But the Continental Army would always stop them. Eventuality the Americans surrounded the Brits and they surrendered.
- Declaration of Independence
Jul 4, 1776This document was the document that high hornored committee to state their independence to the world.
- Common Sense
1776This was a book that Thomas Paine wrote. This book would convince many people that the colonists should fight for their independence.
- American Revolution Begins
Oct 14, 1775After the Boston Tea Party the British passed the Intolerable Acts. This enraged the colonists so on Oct. 14 independence was declared. The first battle was the battle of Lexington and Concord.
- Bunker Hill
Jun 17, 1775The British attacked Bunker Hill which the minutemen.William Prescott ordered, "Don't hire untill you see the whites of their eyes." Even though the British won it was a great fought battle.
- Second Continental Congress
May 10, 1775This is a group of delegates that that delt with problems in America.
- Second Continenal Congress
May 10, 1775This is a group of delegates that solved problems including whether or not they needed a Continental Army
- Lexigton and Concord
Apr 19, 1775This was a battle when the British attacked Lexington and Concord. Paul Revere, William Dawes road through Lexington and Concord to warn the people of the British. A baned of minutemen were created in time to stop the Brits.
- Intolerable Acts
1774Thiis Act had a sieres of laws that the colonists had to preform or they would be severly punished
- First Continental Congress
1774This was a meeting held that delegates voted on to ban all trade with Britan untill the Intolerable Acts were repealed
- Boston Tea Party
1773Colonists disguised as Native Americans boarded English tea ships and dumped all the tea over into the harbor.
- Tea Act
1773This is a tax that Parliament put on tea shiped to America.
- Boston Massacre
1768Some colonists surrounded some British soldiers and started throwing rocks at them. The red coats fired shots and killed a group of people.
- Townshend Acts
1767This was a series of Acts that the British imposed on the Thirteen Colonies.
- Stamp Act
1765This is a stamp that you would have to have on certain items that Parliament passed.
- Quartering Act
1765This was an act that Parliment gave to the Thirteen Colonies after they sent 10,000 soldiers to the Colonies. This act stated that the people in the colonies had to provide horses and supplies to the soldiers.
- Sugar Act
1764This is a tax that Parliament placed on sugar molasses and other products shiped to America.
- Treaty of Paris
1763The British beat the French and Indians. The outcomes gave the British all of the French's land in land int he New World.
- The Proclaimation of 1763
1763This Act was passed by Parliament passed to banned colonists to settle passed the Appalachian Mountain.
- The French and Indian War begins
1754The French and Indians allied to fight against the British. The war started because of the land in the new world.
- English Bill of Rights
1689This document was an agreement that respected the rights of English citizens and of Parliament.
- Fundamental Order of Connecticut
1639This document extended the voting rights to non-church members and limited the power of the governer.
- Mayflower Compact
1620In this document the Pilgrims vowed to obey laws agreed apon for the good of the colony.
- The House of Burgesses
1619This was the first representative assembly in the American colonies.
- Jamestown
1607English Colonists landed in present day Virgina. This will be the first English colony to be colonized.
- Magna Carta
1215A document that guaranteed important rights to noblemen and freemen.
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