american history timeline

first continental congress

Sep 5, 1774

met in order to organize resistance to parliaments cohesive acts.

american history timeline

Period: Sep 5, 1774 to Aug 2, 1776

second continental congress

May 10, 1775

The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the 13 colonies that formed in Philadelphia in May 1775, soon after the launch of the American Revolutionary War

olive branch petition

Jul 5, 1775

It was a document in which the colonists pledged their loyalty to the crown and asserted their rights as British citizens.

prohibitory act

Dec 22, 1775

British legislation in late 1775 that cut off all trade between the American colonies and England, and removed the colonies from the King's protection.

declaration of independence

Aug 2, 1776

The Declaration explained why the Thirteen Colonies at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain regarded themselves as thirteen independent sovereign states, no longer under British rule.