-
Proclamation of 1763
Nobody in colonies can't move to west over the Appalachian Mountains. People ignore it and still move over the Native American land over the Appalachian Mountains. -
Sugar Act 1764
People got tax on sugar and molasses mostly on the merchants who sell it. People didn't care so they smuggled goods into the colonies. -
Stamp Act 1765
They tax people on stamps that are on illegal documents. People organized a secret resistance group called the Sons of Liberty. -
Quartering Act 1765
They had to house soldiers in there homes feed them and take care of them. They had to provide food to the soldiers in the area. Correspondence quickly moved into action and assembled the First Continental Congress. -
Repeal of Stamp Act 1766
Indirect taxes or duties leveled on imported materials glasses, lead, paint, paper as they come into colonies. They organized a group called Sons of Liberty. -
Townshend Act/Duties 1767
Indirect taxes on other material like glass, lead, paint, paper coming into the colonies. People came in rage and well organized resistance. Educated Americans spoke out against it. -
Boston Massacre 1770
The guards started shooting the crowd up when they started throwing snowballs and rocks at them. Rhode Island colonists attacked a British customs schooner that patrolled the coast for smugglers. -
Tea Act 1773
British started taxing people on tea on the colonies. Then colonies people dressed as Indians and pour out all the tea out onto the Boston Harbor. -
Boston Tea Party of 1773
Colonies hated the Tea Act so they rebelled and dressed up as Indians to dump all teas from boats to the Boston Harbor. Then end up calling it the Boston Tea Party. -
Intolerable Act 1774
Shut down Boston Harbor and housed soldiers in their homes. Quickly moved into action and assembled the First Continental Congress. -
Lexington and Concord 1775
First battle of the Revolutionary War, fought in Massachusetts with British troops moved from Boston to Lexington and Concord to take the colonies weapons. They had people giving them time to get weapons to another secret location so British wouldn't get them. -
Battle of Bunker Hill 1775
First great battle the British drove the Americans from their fort at Breed's Hill to Bunker Hill just only when they had ran out of supplies. British won because they tried a third time and won when they ran out of weapons. -
Second Continental Congress 1775
Was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They declared the American Revolutionary war had begun. -
The Battle of Trenton 1776
George Washington led 2,400 men in small rowboats across the ice-chocked Delaware River. They killed 30 of the enemies and took 918 captives and six Hessian cannons. -
Valley Forge 1777-1778
Was a military camp for the colonies but was worst time to camp their for them. With harsh weather and disease spreading with short food and clothing.
