Early American TImeline By clarkk319 1620 Pilgrims establish colony in Massachusetts 1760 British places heavy taxes on American colonies 1770 British soldiers fought with a mob of colonists 1773 Boston tea party 1774 representatives of the colonies meet 1776 U.S. Declaration of Independence signed 1776 Continental congress declare independence 1776 Thomas Paine publish pamphlet called common sense about Independence 1781 The British surrender 1789 French revolution begins 1876 Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone 1903 Wright brothers make first airplane flight
