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Boston Massacre
Location: King Street, Boston, Massachusetts
Important persons: Samuel Adams, Paul Revere
Group involved: British Army, Patriots (Colonists)
Why significant: Samuel Adams and other protesters quickly spread the story of the shootings. They used it as propaganda against the British. This made many colonists angry at the British. Colonists protest and bring the solders to trial. -
Boston Tea Party
Location: Boston Harbor, Boston, Massachusetts
Important persons: Sons of Liberty
Group involved: Colonists
Why significant: Colonists disguised as Indians sneaked onto the three tea-filled ships and dumped over 340 tea chests into Boston Harbor. The Tea Party was the culmination of a resistance movement of colonists against the Tea Act. It is the first backbone against the colonial keeper. -
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1st Continental Congress
Location: Carpenter's Hall, Philadelphia
Important persons: Patrick Henry
Group involved: Colonists from all colony except Georgia
Why significant: They encouraged colonists to continue boycotting British goods. They drafted the Declaration of Rights. It stated the colonists' concerns and asked the king to correct the problems. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
Location: Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Important persons: John Parker, Francis Smith
Group involved: American militia and the British troops
Who won: the American
Why significant: American militia stopped British and drove them back to Boston. This is the start of the American Revolutionary War. -
2nd Continental Congress
Location: Pennsylvania State House, Philadelphia.
Important persons: Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock.
Group involved: colonists from 12 colonists except Georgia
Why significant: The Congress acted as the national government of what became the United States. They authorized the some militias from all colonies to become the Continental Army. It published the Declaration of Independence and announced to get rid of Britain's control. It also published many important documents. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
Location: Charlestown, Massachusetts
Important persons: Joseph Warren, Andrew McClary
Group involved: the American and British troops
Who won: Pyrrhic British victory
Why significant: British got the land, and they received a great loss from this battle. British armies realized that they underestimated American troops which became more and more powerful. -
Battle of Trenton
Location: Trenton, New Jersey
Important persons: George Washington
Group involved: Continental Army and Hessian soldiers
Who won:Continental Army
Why significant: The battle significantly boosted the Continental Army's flagging morale, and inspired re-enlistments. -
Battle of Saratoga(TURNING POINT)
Location: Saratoga, New York
Important persons: British general John Burgoyne, General Horatio Gates (America)
Group involved: The British, Patriots (Colonists)
Who won: Patriots (Colonists)
Why significant: It was the turning point of the Revolutionary War. It was the greatest victory yet for the American forces. This made the French recognize the Americans. The French secretly became allies with America, giving it supplies and soldiers. -
Treaty of Alliance
Location: the hôtel de Coislin, Paris
Important persons: Conrad Alexandre Gérard de Rayneval, Benjamin Franklin
Group involved: France, the USA
Why significant: The Treaty of Alliance (1778) was a defensive agreement stating that France would ally with the United States if the former went to war with Britain. In the case of war, the two nations would work together to defeat the common foe. -
Battle of Guilford Courthouse
Location: North Carolina, USA
Important persons: Lord Cornwallis, Nathaniel Greene
Group involved: the British and the American
Who won: Pyrrhic British victory
Why significant: The battle was the largest and most hotly contested action in the American Revolution’s southern action. It led to the following American's victories and led to the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. -
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The Battle of Yorktown
Location: Yorktown, Virginia
Important persons: Washington, Cornwallis
Group involved: American (colonists), The British, French
Who won: The Americans and French won
Why significant: This was the last major battle of the American Revolution. Cornwallis sent a drummer and a soldier with a white flag of surrender to Washington’s camp on October 19, 1781. -
Treaty of Paris
Location: Paris
Important persons: Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, and John Adams represented United States; David Hartley represented Great Britain.
Group involved: the British and the American
Who won: United States
Why significant: It ended the American Revolutionary War. Britain recognized the new nation (the United States) and agreed to remove all troops from the nation and also set new borders of the United States.
