Revolution Timeline

  • Number 1 Treaty of Paris

    Number 1 Treaty of Paris
    Treaty ending the french american wars.
  • Number 2 Proclamation act

    Number 2 Proclamation act
    A document saying that England will not let its colonists go west of the Appalation mountains. The natives claim all that there land.
  • Number 3 Sugar act

    Number 3 Sugar act
    Britain ordered thar colonial merchants had to pay a tax of six pence, per gallon of imported molasses.
  • Number 4 Quartering Act

    Number 4 Quartering Act
    Britain passes a law hat allows british soldiers to go and live with any family they choose in the colonies. Even if the family didnt want them there.
  • Number 5 Stamp Act

     Number 5 Stamp Act
    Britain passes a law that colonists have to pay a tax, on the printed paper they use.
  • Number 6 Stamp act congress

    Number 6 Stamp act congress
    This meting was held in new york with some representatives from the british colonies in north amarica about having increased revenues.
  • Number 7 Declaration of rights and grievences

    Number 7 Declaration of rights and grievences
    A document the colonist made to tell Britain, that taxes imposed on the colonists without permission were unconstitutional.
  • Number 8 Declatory act

    Number 8 Declatory act
    It changed the sugar act, and repealed the stamp act.
  • Number 9 Stamp act repealed

    Number 9 Stamp act repealed
    The stamp act was repealed.
  • Number 10 Townshed act

    Number 10 Townshed act
    A series of acts passed by the british parlament, relating the there colonies in the americas.
  • Number 11 Boston Massacre

    Number 11 Boston Massacre
    British soldiers opened fire on a patriot mob. That was throwing objects at them.
  • Number 12 Committee of correspondence

    Number 12 Committee of correspondence
    A committee were "shadowy" goverments, shared planes and issues with Britain.
  • Number 13 Tea Act

    Tea was supposed to be shipped to the colonies.To be sold at a cheap price. This was one of the final straws that helped start the war.
  • Number 14 Boston tea party

    People in Boston dumped lots of tea into the boston harber, as a protest. This angered Britain a lot.
  • Number 16 Intolerable acts

    Number 16 Intolerable acts
    What the colonists called laws, that were very unfair. Britain was punishing Massacusetts for dumping tea into th harbor.
  • Number 15 First Contiental Congress

    Number 15 First Contiental Congress
    Meeting of delegates.Making decsions about boycotts on British trade.
  • Number 17 Lexington and Concord

    Number 17 Lexington and Concord
    Were the first military battles of the revolution.
  • Number 18 Bunker hill

    Number 18 Bunker hill
    A early battle during the revolution. During the siege of Boston
  • Number 19 Olive Branch Petition

    Number 19 Olive Branch Petition
    It was a petition saying the colonies still represent Britain, and was the final atempt by the colonists to avoid war with Britain.
  • Number 20 Common Sense

    Number 20 Common Sense
    Thomas Paine wrote a pamplet, encourging the colonists to fight for there independence.
  • Number 21 Declaration of Independence

    Number 21 Declaration of Independence
    Colonists declaring there independence and rights from Britain.After the revolutionary war.