Pre-Revolution Timeline

By boyte.har
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

    Required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards.
  • Townshend Act

    Townshend Act

    To help pay the expenses involved in governing the American colonies, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts, which initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea.
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    7 British soldiers fired into a crowd of Bostonians, killing, and wounding another 6, while angering an entire colony.
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    To protest the British Parliament's tax on tea. "No taxation without representation." The demonstrators boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into the Boston Harbor.
  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress

    This convention formally declared that colonists should have the same rights as Englishmen.
  • Lexington and Concord

    Lexington and Concord

    Began with the famous shot heard around the world, marked the start of the American War of Independence.