1763- 1777 Timeline

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
04/05/1764	Sugar Act	The Sugar Act taxed all sugar and mollassis products. This caused many Americans to begin to protest.
03/22/1765	Stamp Act	The Stamp Act put a tax on all legal documents, dice, paper, cards, ect. This made the Americans very upset, and more rebellious.
02/05/1767	Townshend Acts	Charles Townshend financed them.
03/05/1770	Boston Massacre	British soldiers fired into a crowd of mad colonists and killed 5 Americans.
12/16/1773	Boston Tea Party	Americans dressed up as indians adn threw 342 chests of British tea in to the Boston Harbor.
02/05/1774	Intolerable Acts	The Intolerable Acts were a group of acts put on America to control Americans. This group of acts upset the Americans very much.
04/19/1775	Lexington and Concord	Lexington and Concord was the first battle of the Revolutionary War, and the Americans won victory.
06/17/1775	Bunker Hill	In the battle on Bunker Hill the Americans had an advantage. They were at the top of the hill, which meant that the British had to fight uphill. The downfall was the Americans did not have enough soldiers, so in the end the British won, but lost a lot of men.
02/14/1776	Common Sense	The Common Sense challenged British rule, and was written by Thomas Paine.
07/04/1776	Declaration of Independence	The Declaration of Independence listed all the reasons to separate from Britian. The decalration was signed by many imortant Americans.
12/25/1776	Battle of Trenton	In the battle of Trenton, the Americans snuck up on a Russian army, the Hessians, and attacked. Since the Russians were so suprised, the Americans won the battle.
07/06/1777	Ticonderoga	At Ticonderoga the British attacked and took over the American fort.