American Revolution Timeline

  • The Wool Act

    The Wool Act

    An Act that was designed to restrict the trading of wool products by banning the export of wool from the colonies, limiting the importing of wool to that produced by Great Britain, and taxing wool sales.
  • The French and Indian War

    The French and Indian War

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    The French and Indian War

    The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war's expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution.
  • The Proclimation of 1763

    The Proclimation of 1763

    A proclimation that ended the 7 years war
  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act

    An act reducing tax prices to hpefully decease the stealing of sugar and molasses
  • The Boston Massacre

    The Boston Massacre

    British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston.
  • The Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party

    colonists dessed up as natives and dumped tea into the harbor as a protest from the high taxes
  • The Intolerable Acts

    The Intolerable Acts

    Laws that were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British Government.
  • Boston Blackade

    Boston Blackade

    closed the port of Boston and demanding that the city's residents pay for the nearly $1 million worth of tea
  • The Continental Congress

    The Continental Congress

    A series of legislative bodies.
  • The Declaration of Independence

    The Declaration of Independence

    pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,