Road to independence

  • George 3 becomes king england

    the first one to be born in england and to use english as his first language.
  • the stamp act

    it put tax on legal documents,newspapers,pamphlets,dice ,and playing cards.
  • parliament passes the Townshend acts

    to help pay for the expenses involved in governing the american colonies. which put taxs on glass,paint,paper and tea.noimption
  • stamp act congress meets in new York City

    the american colonies discuss the right regarding british taxation such as the stamp act.
  • The Boston massacre

    a violent clash b between the british and the colonists.
  • The Boston Tea Party

    a political protest where the colonists dumped tea into the harbor to protest british taxes.
  • The coercive Acts

    a series of four laws passed by the british parliment to punish the colony of massachusetts bay for the boston tea party
  • First Continental congress meets in philadelphia

    it was a reaction to the british government restraints on trade and restraints on trade and represenative government after the boston tea party
  • First Shots Of The American Revolution

    fired at the Battles of Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts, marking the beginning of the war between the American colonists and Great Britain; t
  • second continental Congress meets in philadelphia

    the meetings of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that united in support of the American Revolution and the Revolutionary War
  • The Olive Branch Petition

    a final attempt to reconcile with Great Britain and avoid war by expressing their loyalty to the crown while pleading for a resolution to their grievances
  • The Adoption of The Declaration Of Independence

    The Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence
  • The Adoption of the articles of confederation

    This document served as the United States' first constitution
  • britsh surrender yorktown va

    Cornwallis' surrender at Yorktown effectively ended the Revolutionary War
  • treaty of paris signed-offical ending of the american revolution

    officially ended the American Revolutionary War, recognizing the United States as an independent nation.