American Revolution illustrated timeline

  • French-Indian War (1756-1763)

    French-Indian War (1756-1763)

    War between England and France over territory in the New World England won the war BUT owed a huge debt.
  • Navigation Acts (1763)

    Navigation Acts (1763)

    Laws passed by the British Parliament to restrict trade between the colonies and the other countries. A series of laws passed by the British Parliament that imposed restrictions on colonial trade.
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

    Tax on anything on paper, Act of the British Parliament in 1765 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents.
  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act

    requiring colonial authorities to provide food, drink, quarters, fuel, and transportation to British forces stationed in their towns or villages, and live in their homes
  • Townshend Acts

    Townshend Acts

    that taxed goods imported to the American colonies, taxed anything with paper
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    deadly riot that occurred on March 5, 1770, on King Street in Boston, a group of nine British soldiers killed three people of a crowd of three or four hundred who were abusing them verbally and throwing various missiles
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    political protest,342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company were thrown from ships into Boston Harbor by American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts

    punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party, laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British Government
  • Olive Branch Petition

    Olive Branch Petition

    emphasized their loyalty to the British crown and emphasized their rights as British citizens,
  • Battle of Lexington & Concord

    Battle of Lexington & Concord

    hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord in order to seize an arms cache.
  • Second Continental Congress

    Second Continental Congress

    appointing ambassadors, issuing paper currency, raising the Continental Army through conscription, and appointing generals to lead the army.
  • Common Sense

    Common Sense

    promoting the idea of American exceptionalism and the need to form a new nation to realize its promise
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

    to declare the causes which impel them to the separation, equality, unalienable rights, consent of the governed, and the right to alter or abolish government.
  • Articles of Confederation

    Articles of Confederation

    established the functions of the national government of the United States after it declared independence from Great Britain.
  • Daniel Shays’ Rebellion

    Daniel Shays’ Rebellion

    populist uprising against controversial debt collection and tax policies in Massachusetts
  • Constitutional Convention

    Constitutional Convention

    address the problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation