American Revolution Timeline

  • French and Indian War

    French and Indian War

    The war lasted until 1763.
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

    Taxes imposed by Britain to ensure items were pain British currency instead of Colonial currency
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre was an incident in which British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six more.
  • Tea Act

    Tea Act

    An act to undercut price of tea that was smuggled into Brtiain's North American colonies.
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    A political protest held by the Sons of Liberty.
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts

    Acts that had taken away self-government from Massachusetts and other colony rights
  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress

    Covention held by twelve out of thirteen colony delegates to discuss boycotts against Britains new acts and laws.
  • Lexington & Concord

    Lexington & Concord

    The first official armed battle between Great Britain and the 13 colonies in the American Revolutionary War.
  • Second Continental Congress

    Second Continental Congress

    Second Continental Congress contained the same members from the First Continental Congress but this time the Congress drafted the Declaration of Independence.
  • Declaration of INdependence

    Declaration of INdependence

    A document that specified what the 13 colonies wanted to declare from Great Britain during their process of independence.