Download

American Revolution Timeline

  • Period: to

    Enlightenment

    the Enlightenment promoted ideals of individual liberty, religious tolerance, progress, and natural rights.
  • Period: to

    French & Indian War

    A war for control of the Ohio River Valley and other territories that lasted 7 years.
  • Stamp Act of 1765

    Stamp Act of 1765

    On March 22, 1765 is the day the Stamp Act was adopted imposing a tax on all paper documents in the American colonies requiring the documents to be printed on special paper and stamped paper.
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    The Boston massacre was a event that took place in march 5, 1770 when a angry crowd where rioting the day ended with British solders fired into a crowd killing five and wounding six.
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party was a event that was a change for taxes known as protesting "taxation without representation" A group of men dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor. Which is $1.7 million today.
  • Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)

    Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)

    In 1774, Four acts where passed by the British Parliament, These acts were a direct response to the Boston Tea Party.
  • Olive Branch Petition sent to England

    Olive Branch Petition sent to England

    A document that was sent to King George III aiming to reconcile with Great Britain and prevent war.
  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    Battle of Bunker Hill

    The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on June 17, 1775, during the Siege of Boston in the first stage of the American Revolutionary War
  • Battle of Trenton

    Battle of Trenton

    A movement where the leader known as gorge Washington went over an icy river with his team with a surprise attack capturing 900 solders
  • Articles of Confederation created

    Articles of Confederation created

    A league of friendship between the thirteen American states where adopted in 1777, establishing a weak central government with limited powers.
  • Battle of Camden

    Battle of Camden

    The Battle of Camden that was fought on August 16, 1780. A defeat that the Continental Army took in the southern theater of the American revolutionary war.
  • Treaty of Paris

    Treaty of Paris

    A war that ended the American revolutionary and officializing the dependent nation of the untied states of America.
  • 3/5 Compromise

    3/5 Compromise

    An agreement that was made on how the states are going to count population and tax from the slaves
  • Period: to

    Constitution is Ratified

    9 out of 13 states needed to ratify the document for it to be official framework of the United States of America. Taking 13 years.
  • Bill of Rights adopted

    Bill of Rights adopted

    On December 15th, 1791 10 copies of the Bill of Rights where sent to all the states. The Bill of Rights where made with many amendments and laws.