American Revolution Timeline

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  • The French and Indian war

    The French and Indian war

    war started over show land it was that was above the Ohio river. The French started taking over and the Indians didnt like that.
  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763

    The Proclamation Line of 1763 was a British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide.
  • sugar act

    sugar act

    was the first tax on the American colonies imposed by the British Parliament.
  • Taxes

    Taxes

    The stamp act was the first direct British tax on American colonists.
  • The Boston Massacre

    The Boston Massacre

    Riot broke out in Boston between colonist and the Britain red coats fired and killed a couple colonist.
  • Boston Tea party

    Boston Tea party

    342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company were thrown from ships into Boston Harbor by American patriots
  • Boston blockade

    Boston blockade

    The British Parliament passes the Boston Port Act, closing the port of Boston and demanding that the city's residents pay for the nearly $1 million worth of tea.
  • intolerable acts

    intolerable acts

    The laws 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.
  • continental congress

    continental congress

    The Continental Congress was the governing body by which the American colonial governments coordinated their resistance to British rule during the first two years of the American Revolution
  • deceleration of Independence

    deceleration of Independence

    announced the separation of 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain.