Revolutionary Events

By m.brungardt

  • Sugar Act(April 5, 1764)

    This was a tax put on the colonists that forced them to pay taxes on sugar and molasses.

  • Stamp Act(March 22, 1765)

    Seeking to defray some of the costs of garrisoning the colonies, Parliament required all legal documents, newspapers and pamphlets required to use watermarked, or 'stamped' paper on which a levy was placed.

  • Quarting Act( May 15, 1765)

    Colonials forced to pay for British supplies.

  • Townshend Act( June 29, 1767)

    Duties on tea, glass, lead, paper and paint to help pay for the administration of the colonies, named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer. John Dickinson publishes Letter from a Philadelphian Farmer in protest. Colonial assemblies condemn taxation without representation

  • Boston Massacre(March 5, 1770)

  • Tea Act( May 10, 1773)

    In an effort to support the ailing East India Company, Parliament exempted its tea from import duties and allowed the Company to sell its tea directly to the colonies. Americans resented what they saw as an indirect tax subsidising a British company.

  • Boston Tea Party(December 16, 1773

    Angered by the Tea Acts, American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians dump £9,000 of East India Company tea into the Boston harbour.
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    Intolerable Acts(May to June, 1774)

    Four measures which stripped Massachusetts of self-government and judicial independence following the Boston Tea Party. The colonies responded with a general boycott of British goods. Colonial delegates meet to organised opposition to the Intolerable Acts.

  • 1st Continental Congress(September 5, 1774)

    Delegates from each of the 13 colonies except for Georgia (which was fighting a Native-American uprising and was dependent on the British for military supplies) met in Philadelphia as the First Continental Congress to organize colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts.

  • Battles of Lexington and Concord(April 19, 1775)

    First engagements of the Revolutionary War between British troops and the Minutemen, who had been warned of the attack by Paul Revere.

  • 2nd Continental Congress(May 5, 1775)

    The Second Congress managed the Colonial war effort and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776