American Revolution Timeline

  • Navigation Acts

    Navigation Acts

    Colonial revenue increased, and British colonies gained. Dutch also started trading.
  • French and Indian War End

    French and Indian War End

    Great Britain gained land in North America, but disagreements over policy led to colonial tension.
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

    British tax on tea to gain money for debt, but the colonists boycotted and created the Sons of Liberty.
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    The opposition of the acts British Parliament had set. Five were murdered in the street.
  • Tea Act

    Tea Act

    The British goods boycott ended up hurting the colonists trade, so they repealed the Townsend Act in relation to the Boston Massacre.
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    The colonists boycotted the tax on tea, so they dumped all the tea in the ocean to prove their point.
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts

    British armies began quartering and feeding off of colonial homes, which resulted in colonists having to increases their pay towards taxes.
  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress

    Prompted by the Intolerable acts, delegates come together to organize a resistance against these laws.
  • Lexington and Concord

    Lexington and Concord

    British forces intended to seize artillery and power from the colonists, but it ended sparking the beginning of the Revolutionary war.
  • Second Continental Congress

    Second Continental Congress

    Delegates met after the tension and violence between Britains and American Colonies, they ended up voting to raise an army to begin the revolution.
  • Declaration of Independence adopted

    Declaration of Independence adopted

    Britains taxing caused a declaration adoption and how they were treated the American colonists. This resulted in the independence fight from Britain and the rise of the colonists.
  • Battle of Saratoga

    Battle of Saratoga

    The Battle of Saratoga began when Burgoyne troops infiltrated American troops positions. Because of this, Americans gained a lot of Allie’s.
  • Winter at Valley Forge

    Winter at Valley Forge

    Washington led his army in the very bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, which resulted in a miserable few months surviving the brutal conditions and trying to keep the moral up.
  • Battle of Yorktown

    Battle of Yorktown

    The American bombardment in Yorktown resulted in a win, for General Cornwallis surrendered. This ended the fight for independence.
  • U.S. Constitution written

    U.S. Constitution written

    The constitution established American values, and resulted in fundamental rights for the citizens.
  • U.S. Constitution adopted

    U.S. Constitution adopted

    The constitution was adopted, which allowed the American citizens to start living a free life, independent from British reign.