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Events Leading to The Revolutionary War
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Molasses Act (Sugar Act of 1733)
The Molasses Act of March 1733 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which imposed a tax of six pence per gallon on imports of molasses from non-British colonies. -
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French and Indian War (1754–1763)
The French and Indian war (The Seven Years War) The war in North America officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris on February 10, 1763, and war in the European theatre of the Seven Years' War was settled by the Treaty of Hubertusburg on February 15, 1763 -
Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763, in the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, forbade settlers from settling past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. The purpose of the proclamation was to organize Great Britain's new North American empire and to stabilize relations with Native North Americans through regulation of trade, settlement, and land purchases on the western frontier. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act, renewed the earlier Molasses Act which the British had a hard time collecting. The Sugar act taxed more things than the Molasses Act. The British reduced the rate by half and increased enforcement of the tax -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act taxed any printed document like magazines and newspapers. It also taxed other things such as legal documents, playing cards, and die. -
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Townshend Acts (1767 - 1768)
The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed beginning in 1767 by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. The acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the program. Historians vary slightly in which acts they include under the heading "Townshend Acts", but five laws are often mentioned: the Revenue Act of 1767, the Indemnity Act, the Commissioners of Customs Act, the Vice Admiralty Court Act, and the New Yo -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was an incident in which five people died and six were injured. The mob in front of the soldiers shouted insults and threw snowballs at the soldiers. -
the Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a protest against the taxes on tea. Men dressed as Indians boarded a ship filled with tea and threw all the tea overboard; About 1 million dollars in todays money was thrown into the harbor. -
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Intolerable Acts (31 Mar 1774 - 22 Jun 1774)
The Intolerable (Coercive) Acts was the Patriot name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Massachusetts after the Boston Tea party. The acts stripped Massachusetts of self government and historic rights, triggering outrage and resistance in the Thirteen Colonies. They were key developments in the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting where representatives from twelve colonies (not including Georgia) met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall. It was in response to the Coercive Acts (also known as Intolerable Acts by the Colonial Americans) -
Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.They were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a meeting of representatives from the thirteen colonies (except Georgia) that started meeting on May 10, 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
The Battle of Bunker Hill took place on June 17, 1775 during the Siege of Boston early in the American Revolutionary War. The battle is named after the adjacent Bunker Hill, which was involved in the battle and was the original objective of both colonial and British troops, and is sometimes referred to as the "Battle of Breed's Hill." -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. -
Crossing the Delaware
Washington's crossing of the Delaware River, which occurred on the night of December 25–26, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War, was the first move in a surprise attack organized by George Washington against the forces in Trenton, New Jersey.
