american revolution timeline

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    john locke

    his idea for the two treatises of the government was put into the constitution
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    Thomas jefferson

    whilst the American revolution was happening, Thomas Jefferson was part of the Virginia legislature and the Continental Congress, and was additionally the governor of Virginia.
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    French and indian war

    This war's aftermath however led to disputes over the frontier policy, which in the long run caused the revolutionary war.
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    Alexander hamilton

    Alexander was Washington's right hand man, he fought in the war, and also helped draft the constitution, and was the first secretary of the treasury

  • proclamation of 1763

    this proclamation essentially put buying land and expanding to a standstill, supposedly for protection purposes of the white, but also it was protecting the natives.

  • sugar act

    this act was aimed at stopping smuggling of sugar, by strengthening customs, one of the many acts that infuriated colonists

  • currency act

    this act took control of the colonial currency system, and was one of the many acts that infuriated colonists.

  • stamp act passed

    the first act to directly tax American colonists, it taxed stamps, and significantly angered the colonists

  • Quartering act

    this act forced the colonies to allow British troops in their barracks, which colonists took as an insult

  • boston massacre

    a deadly riot, that started simply as a street brawl, but quickly became a slaughter

  • boston tea party

    on this date, the colonists threw tea imports into the ocean as an act of protest for the tax

  • first continental congress

    all of the colonies except georgia met to organize colonial resistance to the coercive acts

  • battles of lexington and concord

    these two battles were what kicked off the revolutionary war overall.

  • Second Continental Congress

    as promised, the delegates met back up one year later, however the war had already begun at that point.

  • the battle of bunker hill

    this battle was fought in the early stages of the war, and is named after Bunker hill in Charlestown, this was one of the battles to boot off the war

  • give me liberty or give me death speech

    this speech planned for making volunteer militia groups to defend

  • battle of saratoga

    this battle was a turning point for the colonists and allowed them to start getting several allies.

  • The battle of yorktown

    This was the battle that won the colonists the war, outnumbering the British troops by 8000.

  • Treaty of Paris signed

    the treaty that ended the french and indian war, and started the downward spiral into the revolutionary war.

  • US constitution signed

    after the war was won, the colonists started making laws for their country via writing the constitution.