American Revolution Timeline

  • stamp act of 1765

    stamp act of 1765

    The Brits passed the stamp act of 1765 and it required colonist's had to play taxes
  • Boston massacre

    Boston massacre

    British guard that were guarding the Boston Customs House shot in to a crowd of people killing 3 people, injuring 8 and 2 of them mortally
  • Boston tea party

    Boston tea party

    Americans got bad at The British for taxation without representation and dumped their tea into the sea
  • 2nd Continental congress meeting

    2nd Continental congress meeting

    The ambassadors were appointed, Paper money started being printed, raising the Continental Army through conscription, and then appointing the generals to lead the army
  • Battle Of Bunker Hill

    Battle Of Bunker Hill

    Americans proved they could hold their own against the British but they had lost still
  • Declaration of Independence adopted

    Declaration of Independence adopted

    The Declaration of Independence had been passed giving freedom to America
  • Battle of Trenton

    Battle of Trenton

    General George Washington had defeated Hessian mercenary's
  • Articles of Confederation Created

    Articles of Confederation Created

    They gave power to the state governments
  • Battle of Camden

    Battle of Camden

    British Lieutenant General Charles routed the numerically superior American forces led by Major General Horatio Gates about four miles north of Camden
  • Battle of Yorktown

    Battle of Yorktown

    British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered to American forces
  • Treaty of Paris

    Treaty of Paris

    This day marked the end of the revolutionary war against the British
  • The Great Compromise

    The Great Compromise

    Proposed to the lower house about representation and equal representation to the upper house
  • Constitutional Convention

    Constitutional Convention

  • The Constitution is Ratified

    The Constitution is Ratified

    The Constitution was now official framework
  • The Bill of Rights Adopted

    The Bill of Rights Adopted

    The bill of Rights were right given to citizens of America that let citizen do stuff that was not allowed beforehand