<h2>Timeline of Revolutionary War:</h2><h3>French and Indian War (1754-1763)</h3>
- British and French fought for control of the Ohio River Valley; colonists joined Britain in hopes of moving west if they won.
- It gave Britain control over all of Canada and almost all of the U.S. Spain got control over the land west of the Mississippi.
- British proclamation that stated that all land west of the Appalachians was reserved for Native Americans.
- A tax on sugar, molasses, and other things.
- Newspapers, documents, and other items made of paper had to have a stamp on it; buying a stamp was a form of taxation.
- Taxed imported glass, paper, lead, paints, tea.
- Boston Massacre, British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists who were teasing and taunting them. Five colonists were killed. The colonists blamed the British and the Sons of Liberty and used this incident as an excuse to promote the Revolution.
Parliament repealed all for the taxes from the Townshend duties, but they refused to lift the tax on tea.
<h3>Boston Tea Party (1773)</h3>- December 16, 1773, 50 colonists dressed as Indians (the Sons of Liberty) dumped 10,000 pounds of tea from 3 ships in the Boston Harbor as protest to the tea tax.
- Boston's punishment for the tea party; ended town meetings, closed the Boston Harbor until the tea was paid for, made a newer, harsher Quartering Act.
- The sites of the first battles of the American Revolution (April 19, 1775).
- After Lexington and Concord, congress established the continental army and made George Washington Commander in Chief.
- The first major battle of the war; the colonists protected Breed's Hill as the British marched up to the attack. The colonists finally retreated when they ran out of ammunition; the British lost many soldiers.
- This declaration of our freedom from England was worked on by a committee of 5 men (Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Serman, Robert Livingston). Thomas Jefferson actually wrote it. It was adopted by Congress on July 4, 1776 and the final draft was signed on August 2. John Hancock signed his name large so "King George could read it without his spectacles."
- Washington crossed the Delaware River and launched a surprise attack on a group of Hessians the morning after Christmas.
- Turning point of the American Revolution. It was very important because it convinced the French to give the U.S. military support.
- Place where Washington's army spent the winter of 1777-1778, a 4th of troops died here from disease and malnutrition, Baron Von Steuben comes and trains troops.
- Battle of Yorktown/British soldiers officially surrendered., Last major battle of the Revolutionary War. Cornwallis and his troops were trapped in the Chesapeake Bay by the French fleet. He was sandwiched between the French navy and the American army. He surrendered October 19, 1781.
- a peace agreement that officially ended the Revolutionary war and established British recognition of the independence of the US.
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