American Revolution Timeline

  • the french and Indian war

    the french and Indian war

    it was a war between the french and the British because the British wanted the land the the french currently occupied
  • the proclamation 1763

    the proclamation 1763

    the British prevented the colonist from moving west of the Appalachian mountains
  • sugar act

    sugar act

    the British wanted to end the smuggling of sugar and molasses
  • the Boston massacre

    the Boston massacre

    British solders opened fire on unarmed colonist
  • taxes

    taxes

    the taxes were to buy tea it was three time the normal amount
  • the Boston tea party

    the Boston tea party

    colonist were mad at the British so they threw tea in the Boston harbor
  • intolerable act

    intolerable act

    laws that were passed to punish the Boston colony after the Boston tea party
  • Boston blockade

    Boston blockade

    it was one of the five acts passed to punish the Boston colonist
  • continental congress

    continental congress

    it was assemble to limit the amount of British colonist in america
  • the declaration of independence

    the declaration of independence

    the declaration of independence was written for america so we could become our own independence