American Revolution

By Pwebb84
  • 7 year war starts

    7 year war starts

    French and Native Americans fight colonists for land occupation
  • Proclamation  of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763

    a British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide
  • 7 year war ends

    7 year war ends

    England goes into debt but wins war
  • Sugar act

    Sugar act

    British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses
  • Stamp act

    Stamp act

    The act required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards.
  • Townshend acts

    Townshend acts

    constituted an attempt by the British government to consolidate fiscal and political power over the American colonies by placing import taxes on many of the British products bought by Americans
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    A confrontation in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston.
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    A protest where colonists dumped around 300 crates of tea into the ocean.
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts

    A set of laws meant to punish colonists for what happened at the Boston Tea Party.
  • Lexington & Concord

    Lexington & Concord

    The first war of the American Revolution. It took place in the Massachusetts towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge.