American revolution timeline

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  • French Indian war

    French Indian war

    France and Great Britain were fighting for control of the Ohio River Valley in North America Great Britain won the war but went to a great debt fighting it. This debt led them to tax the colonists heavily creating the first major dispute between the colonists and the crown.
  • Stamp act

    Stamp act

    The British taxed the colonists when buying a newspaper and almanacs pamphlets broadside legal documents dice and playing cards and the colonists reacted negatively.
  • Boston massacre

    Boston massacre

    The Boston Massacre started as a street brawl between American colonists and British soldiers and it escalated into a bloody slaughter
  • battle of bunker hill

    battle of bunker hill

    The American patriots were defeated at the Battle of Battle of bunker hill but they proved to hold their own against the British army
  • Valley Forge

    Valley Forge

    Valley Forge was an encampment during the American Revolution and the army was led by a General George Washington
  • battle Yorktown

    battle Yorktown

    The Battle of Yorktown proved to be the decisive engagement of the American Revolution. The British surrender forecast the end of British rule in the colonies and the birth of a new nation—the United States of America.
  • Treaty of Paris

    Treaty of Paris

    the treaty was a sign of the end of the American Revolution war and people signed