African Americans in the Revolutionary War Timeline Game
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About This Challenge
The role of African Americans in the Revolutionary War is often overlooked, but they played a crucial part in the fight for independence. One way to learn more about their contributions is through a timeline game that highlights important events involving African Americans during this time period.
- African Americans served as soldiers and sailors in the Continental Army and Navy.
- Many African Americans fought for their freedom from slavery by joining the British forces.
- Some African Americans, such as James Armistead Lafayette, served as spies and provided valuable intelligence to the American forces.
Game Details: a timeline game where you place events in their correct chronological order
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- March 5, 1770: Crispus Attucks is killed in the Boston Massacre, becoming the first casualty of the American Revolution
- November 7, 1775: Lord Dunmore's Proclamation offers freedom to enslaved African Americans who join the British Army
- June 17, 1775: Peter Salem fights at the Battle of Bunker Hill and is credited with shooting British Major John Pitcairn
- 1776: Lemuel Haynes, a free African American, joins the colonial militia in Massachusetts
- October 17, 1777: Prince Whipple serves as a bodyguard for General William Whipple during the Battle of Saratoga
- 1781: James Armistead Lafayette acts as a spy for the Continental Army and provides crucial intelligence to General Lafayette
- August 29, 1778: The 1st Rhode Island Regiment, comprised primarily of African American soldiers, distinguishes itself at the Battle of Rhode Island
- 1779: Colonel Tye leads a group of escaped slaves known as the Black Brigade in raids against British forces in New Jersey
- 1780: Esther de Berdt Reed forms the Ladies Association of Philadelphia to raise funds for the Continental Army, including for African American soldiers
- August 16, 1780: The 1st South Carolina Regiment, a unit of African American soldiers, fights in the Battle of Camden
- September 28, 1781: The 1st Rhode Island Regiment fights at the Battle of Yorktown
- September 3, 1783: The Treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the Revolutionary War
- 1783-1800: Many African American soldiers are not granted the promised freedom and face discrimination and hardship after the war
- August 22, 1791: The Haitian Revolution begins, inspired in part by the ideals of the American Revolution
- April 9, 1816: Richard Allen founds the African Methodist Episcopal Church, providing a place of worship and community for African Americans
- 1784: Prince Hall establishes the first African American Masonic lodge in the United States
- February 12, 1793: The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 is passed, allowing slaveowners to recapture escaped slaves even in free states
- 1773: Phillis Wheatley, a former slave, publishes her book of poetry, becoming the first African American author to do so
- September 17, 1787: The United States Constitution is ratified, enshrining the institution of slavery and denying full rights to African Americans
- Late 18th century: Tenskwatawa, also known as the Prophet, inspires a Native American confederacy to resist American expansion in the Northwest Territory