The American Revolution
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Key Moments in American Revolution
- 1765 – Stamp Act
- 1767 – Townshend Act
- 1770 – Boston Massacre
- 1773 – Boston Tea Party
- 1774 – The ‘Intolerable Acts’
- 1774 – 1st Continental Congress
- 1775 – 2nd Continental Congress
- 1776 – Siege of Boston
- 1776 – American Declaration of Independence published
- 1776 – Battle of Trenton
- 1777 – Battle of Saratoga
- 1777-78 – Winter at Valley Forge
- 1778 – France & USA sign Treaty of Alliance. France joins war against Britain
- 1781 – British defeat & surrender at the Battle of Yorktown
- 1783 – Treaty of Paris signed by Britain & USA. Formally recognises USA as an independent country.
- 1787 – American Constitutional Convention
- 1789 – George Washington becomes the 1st President of the United States of America
Map of the United States of America
(1789)