Revolution.

Revolution Timeline

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    Revolution Timeline

  • Proclamation

    Proclamation

    French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, in which it forbade settlers from settling past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

    1765 required the use of stamped paper or stamps on various items - including trade items, commercial and legal documents.
  • Townshend Taxes

    Townshend Taxes

    The Townshend Act taxed the colonist on items such as paper, red and white lead, class paints and tea shipped from England.
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    A group of 60 colonist gathered together. The colonists taunted the soldiers who were there on duty. The colonists started the massacre by throwing a club knocking a soldier to the ground. After the smoke from the gun fires had cleared it unveiled a bloody scene with wounded and dead colonists.
  • The Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party

    an act that gave the east India tea company a monopoly on selling tea in the American colonies.
  • The Intolerable Acts

    The Intolerable Acts

    Patriot name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Massachusetts after the Boston Tea party
  • The First Continental Congress

    The First Continental Congress

    came together to abolish British Tyranny which they would hold collected taxes until Massachusetts was back on a constitutional foundation.
  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

    Battle of Lexington and Concord

    first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War
  • Second Continental Congress

    Second Continental Congress

    Created the Continental Army. Named George Washington commanding general.
  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    Battle of Bunker Hill

    Battle of Bunker Hill(over 1000 British and 400 colonists were wounded or killed) Took the British 3 waves to finally take the hill.
  • Thomas Paine's Common Sense

    Thomas Paine's Common Sense

    Written by Thomas Paine. Written for the common people. First document that asked for independence from Britain.
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

    Who wrote it by Thomas Jefferson and was officially declared from Britain, and signed by 56 delegates.
  • Battles of Saratoga

    Battles of Saratoga

    2 Battles - Freeman's farm and Bemis heights. Considered the turning point in the war.
  • Battle at Yorktown

    Battle at Yorktown

    :ast major land battle in North America of the American Revolutionary War, also known as the American War of Independence.French wanted revenge and joined forces.
  • Treaty of Paris

    Treaty of Paris

    ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain on one side and the United States of America and its allies on the other.

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