American History 1 Timeline

  • The Intolerable Acts

    Laws that Britain passed that punished the colonists for the Boston Tea Party
  • The First Continental Congress

    Representatives from each colony met to discuss and write to Britain that we the colonists wanted our rights restored
  • Lexington and Concord

    The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War
  • The Second Continental Congress

    Meeting for the representatives of each colony to meet together to declare independence from Great Britain
  • The Battle of Bunker Hill

    Was a battle fought for the siege of Boston
  • The Olive Branch Petition

    The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 5, 1775, and signed on July 8, in a final attempt to avoid a full-scale war between Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies in America
  • Publication of "Common Since"

    a pamphlet that was written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies.
  • The Declaration of Independence

    A document that stated that we(Americans) would be free from British control
  • The Battle of Trenton and Princeton

    Two crucial battle of the revolutionary war
  • Battle of Saratoga

    Was a turning point in the revolutionary war giving the victory to the Colonial Army
  • Valley Forge

    Valley Forge functioned as the third of eight military encampments for the Continental Army's main body, commanded by General George Washington
  • Battle of Yorktown

    This battle was one of the last events of the Revolutionary War
  • The Treaty of Paris

    Like every war, The Treaty of Paris stated that the Colonists(Americans) had won the war