revolitionary time line

  • Stamp Act

    The British established the Stamp Act, the Colonists fought against it. The British repealed it, later they put another tax on the colonists.
  • Boston Massacre

    The British marched into the Colonist land and the Colonists were throwing snowballs at them and hanging effigies of British leaders. The British were walking through Colonist land and someone shot and it turned into a massacre.
  • Tea Tax

    The British made decision to tax most of the things the Colonists were using and the Colonists were very angry about it
  • Battle at Lexington and Concord

    One of the major battles of the Revolutionary War and it kicked off the Revolutionary War.
  • Bunker (Breed's) Hill

    The British defeated the Colonists.
  • Common Sense

    Thomas Paine wrote this book and said that average people could participate in government matters and that they didn't need a king.
  • Declaration of Independence

    The Colonists wrote a declaration to the British saying they were separating from them.
  • Battle at Trenton/Princeton

    Washington's troops crossed the Delaware, fought and returned to Trenton to lure the British south.
  • Battle of Saratoga

    Convinced the French to formally recognize the Colonists problem. It was symmetrical because the Colonists lost then then the French lost.
  • Continental Army Wintering at Valley Forge

    they attacked the British and the British fought back
  • War in the South/Charleston

    The British brutally defeated the Americans and they captured 3,000 American soldiers.
  • Battle of Yorktown

    The French and the Colonists both attacked the British