Revolutionary War Timeline

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  • Proclamation of 1763

    The proclamation forbid colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains

  • Sugar Act

    A revenue-raising act that put taxes on sugar and other things

  • Stamp Act

    A revenue-raising act that placed taxes on stamps. Also required stamps to be placed on newspapers, legal & commercial documents

  • The Quartering Act

    Required colonists to provide housing & accommodations for British soldiers stationed in the colonies

  • Stamp Act Congress

    First unified meeting of the colonies devised a protest against new British taxation

  • The Declaratory Act

    Repealed the Stamp Act & changes do and lessened the Sugar Act

  • The Boston Massacre

    A "street fight" between colonists and British soldiers where several colonists were killed

  • The Boston Tea Party

    Protest where colonists dressed up as Native Americans and dumped several hundred chests of British tea into the Boston harbor

  • The Rides of Paul Revere & Walliam Dawes

    Revere & Dawes were keeping watch for the British and alerted the colonists upon their arrival

  • Adoption of the Declaration of Independence

    The representatives signed & adopted the document declaring the colonies independence from Great Britain