Key Events and Concepts of the American Revolution

Boston Massacre

• Riot on March 5, 1770, in Boston

• A peaceful protest in Boston

• A battle during the American Revolution

• An event leading to the signing of the Declaration of Independence

Shay’s Rebellion

• Uprising in Massachusetts, 1786-87

• A political movement in Virginia, 1776

• A protest against the Stamp Act, 1765

• A labor strike in New York, 1790

Compromise counting three-fifths of the enslaved population

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• Missouri Compromise

• Great Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

Committees of Correspondence

• Provisional governments in the 13 colonies

• Secret societies formed to oppose British rule

• Military alliances between the colonies

• Economic trade organizations in the colonies

Mode of political organization uniting separate states

• Federalism

• Confederation

• Unitary State

• Anarchy

April 19, 1775, kicked off the American Revolutionary War (1775-83).

• Lexington and Concord

• Bunker Hill

• Yorktown

• Saratoga

Declaration of Independence

• Document establishing American independence

• A treaty ending the Revolutionary War

• A letter to the British Crown

• A declaration of war against Britain

Decisive victory for the Continental Army in 1777

• Battle of Saratoga

• Battle of Bunker Hill

• Battle of Yorktown

• Battle of Trenton

Treaty of Paris

• Agreement ending the American Revolutionary War

• A treaty that established the boundaries of Canada

• An agreement to end the War of 1812

• A peace treaty between France and Spain

Treaty signed on September 3, 1783, ending the American Revolution

• Treaty of Paris

• Treaty of Versailles

• Treaty of Ghent

• Treaty of Tordesillas