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Revolutionary War Timeline

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  • Magna Charter
    Feb 6, 1215

    Magna Charter

    a document that King John of England was forced into signing. It greatly reduced the power he held as the King of England and allowed for the formation of a powerful parliament.
  • The English Bill of Rights

    The English Bill of Rights

    incorporated in the constitution as Amendments 1–10, and in all state constitutions
  • French and Indian War

    French and Indian War

    Seven Year War between
  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act

  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act

  • Colonists Form a Society Called The Sons of Liberty

    Colonists Form a Society Called The Sons of Liberty

  • Stamp Act of 1765

    Stamp Act of 1765

  • Parliament Repealed the Stamp Act

    Parliament Repealed the Stamp Act

  • Parliament Passes the Townshend Acts

    Parliament Passes the Townshend Acts

  • The Tension Explodes (Boston Massacre)

    The Tension Explodes (Boston Massacre)

  • Committees of Correspondence

    Committees of Correspondence

  • Tea Act

    Tea Act

  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts

  • Coercive Acts

    Coercive Acts

  • Closing of Boston Harbor

    Closing of Boston Harbor

  • Massachusetts Charter Cancelled

    Massachusetts Charter Cancelled

  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress

  • Patrick Henry’s Speech

    Patrick Henry’s Speech

  • Paul Revere’s Ride

    Paul Revere’s Ride

  • Governor Gage’s Seizing of Colonist’s Stockpile of Weapons

    Governor Gage’s Seizing of Colonist’s Stockpile of Weapons

  • 1st Battle at Lexington and Concord

    1st Battle at Lexington and Concord

    -Captain John Parker, Paul Revere, Samuel Prescott and Thomas Gage.
    -British heard many weapons were stocked in Concord.
    -Patriots hid weapons.
    -British were mad and it forced them back to Boston.

  • Bunker Hill

    -Launched in Breed's Hill.
    -General Washington.
    -Proved to British that the colonists were just as powerful.
    -British won.
  • Second Continental Congress

    Second Continental Congress

  • Forming the Continental Army

    Forming the Continental Army

  • Named George Washington Commander of Continental Army

    Named George Washington Commander of Continental Army

  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    Battle of Bunker Hill

  • Olive Branch Petition

    Olive Branch Petition

  • Thomas Paine's Common Sense

    Thomas Paine's Common Sense

  • Dorchester Heights

    Dorchester Heights

  • Dorchester Heights

    -Nook's Hill.
    -Washington, General Howe.
    -Cannons where troops were.
    -Howe retreated from Boston to Canada.
  • E Pluribus Unum

    E Pluribus Unum

  • Declaration of Rights Draft

    Declaration of Rights Draft

  • Signing of the Declaration of Independence

    Signing of the Declaration of Independence

  • Benedict Arnold's Ticonderoga Fort Seizure

    Benedict Arnold's Ticonderoga Fort Seizure

  • Articles of Confederation

    The original constitution of the United States, which was replaced by the US Constitution in 1789.
  • Land Ordinance of 1785

    Land Ordinance of 1785

    adopted by the United States Congress on May 20, 1785.
  • Northwest Ordinance of 1787

    Northwest Ordinance of 1787

    the act of Congress in 1787 providing for the government of the Northwest Territory and setting forth the steps by which its subdivisions might become states.
  • Shay’s Rebellion

    Shay’s Rebellion

    was an armed uprising in central and western Massachusetts
  • Constitution Ratification

    Constitution Ratification

    9 of 13 states needed to ratify the constitution