French Revolution timeline

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  • 1.) Treaty of paris

    1.) Treaty of paris

    After the 7 year war, France ceded all of North America except for New Orlands to keep their Caribbean sugar islands.
  • 2.) Proclamation Act

    2.) Proclamation Act

  • 3.) Sugar Act

    3.) Sugar Act

    The first attempt to finance the defence of the colonies by the British Government.
  • 4.) The Stamp Act

    4.) The Stamp Act

    At this time the parliament required all legal documents, newspapers and pamphlets required to use watermarked, or 'stamped' paper on which a levy was placed.
  • 5.) The Quartering Act

    5.) The Quartering Act

    The colonial has to pay for any and all suppies from the british garrisons.
  • 6.) Stamp Act Congress

    6.) Stamp Act Congress

    The stamp act was found unconstitutional and was found as a tax without 9 of 13 colonies representatives consent.
  • Declaration of Rights and Grievances

    Declaration of Rights and Grievances

    This was a document that was passed that said that any taxes on british colonist without consent is considered unconstitutional.
  • 7.) Declaratory Act

    7.) Declaratory Act

    The declaratory act was a repeal to the stamp act, and the changing of the sugar act. They did this because of the boycotts that were hurting the town.
  • 8.) Stamp Act Repealed

    8.) Stamp Act Repealed

    The palermnt voted to repeal the stamp act due to months of protest from the colonist.
  • Townshend Act

    Townshend Act

    Duties on tea, glass, lead, paper and paint to help pay for the administration of the colonies,
  • 9.) Boston Massacre

    9.) Boston Massacre

    A crowd began harassing a group of soldiers guarding the customs house and a musket was shot sparking a fighting war into the crowd which killed five civilians.

  • Committee of Correspondence

    This was a committees made from legislatures from all the colonies and others like sons of liberty.
  • 10.) Tea Act

    10.) Tea Act

    The palament exempted its tea from inport and now being sold directly to the colonies, and americans resent this as indirect tax.
  • 11.) Boston Tea Party

    11.) Boston Tea Party

    The colonist were mad about tea act so they dumped 9,000 pounds into the boston harbour.
  • 12.) Intolerable Acts

    12.) Intolerable Acts

    Massachustts was stripped of self-government and judicial independence following the Boston Tea Party. The colonies responded with a general boycott of British goods.
  • 13.) Lexington And Concord

    13.) Lexington And Concord

    First engagements of the Revolutionary War between British troops and the Minutemen, who was warned by Paul Revere.
  • 14.) 1st Continental Congress

    14.) 1st Continental Congress

    This was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies in the hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • 15.) Bunker Hill

    15.) Bunker Hill

    This was a first major battle of the independence war. At the end of the battle Boston at a cost of 1054 British casualties to the Americans' 367.
  • 16.) Appeal to Reason Rejected (aka: Olive BRanch Petition)

    16.) Appeal to Reason Rejected (aka: Olive BRanch Petition)

    This was a final attempt to avoid a full-on war between the Thirteen Colonies, that the Congress represented, and Great Britain.
  • Common Sense

    Common Sense

    Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine, that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain
  • 21.) Declaration of Independence

    21.) Declaration of Independence

    This was a well written document that was written by Thomas jefferson declaring freedom for the 13 colonies.