American Revolution Events

  • Townshend Act

    Townshend Act

    Created the tax on glass, lead, paper, paint, and tea.
  • Navigation Acts

    Navigation Acts

    Parliament trying to promote self sufficiency.
  • French- Indian War

    French- Indian War

    The French- Indian War was a war that famously lasted seven years. Where the British and French people fought over territory.
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

    Required colonists to pay a tax on every piece of paper or document that they have.
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

    Stated that The 13 states were separated from Great Britain and stated all of the formal laws they wanted to establish.
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    British soldiers defended themselves against colonists who were angry and violent towards them.
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    People in Boston dumped 342 boxes of tea leaves into the Boston harbour.
  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act

    The act allowed British soldiers to enter and live at colonists houses, anytime, for however long they felt necessary.
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts

    Series of law saying things that were not and never will be acceptable.
  • Olive Branch Petition

    Olive Branch Petition

    The King's last attempt to keep control over the colonists.
  • Battle of Lexington & Concord

    Battle of Lexington & Concord

    The first battle in the American Revolution
  • Articles of Confederation

    Articles of Confederation

    The Nation's First Frame Government.
  • Second Continental Congress

    Second Continental Congress

    Where someone from every 13 colony, came together and established the American Independence against Britain.
  • Constitutional Convention

    Constitutional Convention

    Addressed and fixed the weak central government.
  • Daniel Shays’ Rebellion

    Daniel Shays’ Rebellion

    An armed uprising as a response to the debt crisis in Massachusetts.