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Currency Act
Prohibited the creation of new bills -
The Quartering Act
American citizens were to pay for descent houses for soldiers to live in -
The Stamp Act
The first British tax on American colonies ,this stated that every legal document published had to consist of a stamp or British seal -
Boston Massacre
A Boston colonists threaten british soldiers, 1 colonist hits a British soldier, the British soldiers fire their guns leading to the death of 5 colonist -
Boston Tea Party
Tea was dumped into the harbor by britsh officials, because colonist drank smuggled tea out of anger against the stamp act -
The Battle of Bunker Hill
British regulars and New England miltiamen fought, the militiamen planned to dirve britsh colonist out of their homes -
Intolerable Acts
punishment towards Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party -
First Continental Congress
Their purpose was to find the relationship between the colonist and the British government -
Lexington & Concord
The first shots fired between American and Britsh soldiers, no one knows who fired the first shot.
Americans were forced to surrender, but they slowed the British and their depot forced the British to give way -
Declaration of Independence
The Second Continental Congress met and signed the proclamation that states our independence from Britain -
The Battle of the Chesapeake
The British and French flleet, the victory of the French disabled the supply of forces at Yorktown -
Yorktown
The American army defeated the British army and ended the Revolutionary War