American Revolution timeline

  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    required colonists to purchase special legal stamps for legal documents
  • townshend acts

    townshend acts
    indirect taxes
  • boston Massacre

    boston Massacre
    a conflict over jobs. 3 men were killed, 2 more fatally injured
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    wheres the natives threw the tea overboard into the harbor
  • Intollerable acts

    Intollerable acts
    shut down harbors
  • Second Continental Congress

  • battle of bunker hill

    battle of bunker hill
    british suffered 1,00 casualties. and the colonists 450
  • Olive Branch Act

    urged a return to the unity of Britian and te colonies.
  • Common Sense is Published

  • Decleration if Independence

  • Trenton

  • battle at saratoga

  • Battle of Yorktown

  • Treaty of Paris