Madison Ritt- American Revolution

French and Indian War

Jan 12, 1763

France's expansion into the Ohio River Valley led to conflict with the British colonies. A series of battles occured until 1756. The Mississippi Valley started to go westward to expansion.

Stamp Act

Mar 22, 1765

The stamp act was passed by the British parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was to require all American colonists to pay taxes for every single piece of paper they buy. The money from taxes was to be used for paying the costs of defending and protecting the American frontier near the Appalachian Mountains. The reason the people were so angry at the new taxes is because they saw it as an attempt by England to raise money in the colonies without the approval of the colonial legislatures

Boston Massacre

Mar 5, 1770

The killing of five colonists on March 5, 1770. It was the series of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts in October 1768 to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed by the Townshend Acts.

Boston Tea Party

Dec 16, 1773

Samuel and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the boston harbor and dumped 342 chests of tea overboard. They did this because they didn't like the taxes on the tea. This resulted in the passage of the punitive Coercive Acts in 1774 and pushed the two sides closer to war.

Intolerable Acts

Mar 31, 1774

Series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. It was meant to punish Massachusetts colonists for throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor.

Battles of Lexington and Concord

Apr 19, 1775

First military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.

Declaration of Independence

Jul 13, 1776

A document written by Thomas Jefferson and it states the reasons the British colonies of North American sought Independence.

Saratoga

Oct 7, 1777

2 battles that gave the coup de grace to the 1777 British invasion from Canada during the American Revolutionary War.

Yorktown

Oct 19, 1781

Americans and French against the British during the American Revolutionary War in Virginia.

Treaty of Paris

Sep 3, 1783

Negotiated between the United States and Great Britain, ended the revolutionary war and recognized American independence.

Constitution

Sep 17, 1787

The Constitution is our plan for government. It states our Three branches of government

Bill of Rights

Dec 15, 1791

The Bill of Rights is the collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.