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Boston Massacre
Location: in Boston, Massachusetts, British America
important person: Paul Revere and Samuel Adams
people involved: British army, patriots
won: the patriots.
Why is it significant: The Boston Massacre is considered one of the most important events that turned colonial sentiment against King George III and British Parliamentary authority. -
Boston Tea Party
Location: in Boston, Massachusetts
important person: sons of liberty
people involved: Sons of Liberty, the East India company
won: sons of liberty
why is it important: The Tea Party became an iconic event of American history, and since then other political protests such as the Tea Party movement have referred to themselves as historical successors to the Boston protest of 1773. -
1st Continental Congress
Location: at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
important person: Joseph Galloway, John Dickinson, John Jay, Edward Rutledge, Patrick Henry, Roger Sherman, Samuel Adams, and John Adams
people involved: delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies
won: no
why is it significant: The second accomplishment of the Congress was to provide for a Second Continental Congress to meet on May 10, 1775. -
The Second Continental Congress
location:Philadelphia
important person:John Hancock
people involved:delegates from the Thirteen Colonies
won: no
why is it significant: The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the spring of 1775 in Philadelphia. It succeeded the First Continental Congress, The Second Congress managed the Colonial war effort and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. -
Lexington & Concord
location: in the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge
important person: Thomas Gage
people involved: Militia and British
won: Militia
why is it important: Strategic American victory
• British forces succeed in destroying cannon and supplies in Concord
• Militia successfully drive British back to Boston
• Start of the American Revolutionary War -
Battle of Bunker Hill
location: Launched from Breed’s Hill
important person: none
people involved: Redcoats, colonial forces
won: British (with mortality double the number of patriot soldiers)
why is it significant: boosted the confidence of colonists
is it a turning point: no -
Battle of Trenton
location: Trenton
important person: George Washington
people involved: colonist, British forces
won: colonists
why significant: America and control over much of MewJersey, improved morale of the colonists
is it a turning point: probably not -
Battle of Saratoga
location: Saratoga
important person: British General John Burgoyne
people involved: British force, colonists
won: colonists
why significant: convinced the French government to be an ally
is it a turning point: yes -
Treaty of Alliance
location:
important people: Benjamin.Franklin, Silas Deane Arthur Lee
people involved：Benjamin.Franklin, Silas Deane Arthur Lee
no winner, France and America became allies
why significant: French formally set agreement with America
is it a turning point: no, but it is important to the winning of American Revolution -
Battle of Guildford Courthouse
location: North Carolina
important people: Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis(British),Major General Nathanael Greene
people involved: British force, colonists
who won: British, but they suffered great loss
why significant: it set the winning basis for the colonists
is it a turning point: no -
Battle of Yorktown
location: Yorktown
important people: George Washington,Lieutenant General Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, Lieutenant General Lord Charles Cornwallis
comte de Rochambeau
people involved: colonists, French, British
who won: colonists
why significant: it’s the last major war in America Revolution
is it a turning point: no, but it’s the last battle. -
Treaty of Paris （1783）
Location: Paris, France
important person: Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, Henry Laurens, and John Adams from the United States, David Hartley and Richard Oswald from Britain
people involved: the United States, the Britain
won: the United States
why is it significant: It ended the American Revolutionary War. The treaty set the boundaries between the British Empire in North America and the United States, on lines "exceedingly generous" to the latter.
