Road to Revolution Timeline

  • French and Indian War

    French and Indian War
    Enchanted Learning The French and India war was a seven year long war, and the last colonial war. The British and the French were fighting for much part of North America.
    This war lead to higher taxes for the British, which eventually lead to the American Revolution.
  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763
    Poclamation of 1763 At the end of the French and Indian War the British decided to make a proclamation to stop the anger of the Indians by checking the ownership of settlers on thier land.
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    Stamp Act The British Parlament taxed all the Americans for the paper they used. The money collected went toward the American troops.
    The colonists were mad about the high taxes this lead to ager that fused the start of the Revolutionary War.
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts
    Intolerabel Acts King George III wrote laws that acted as a punishment toward the people that dumped the tea.The Quakers asked King George to end the laws he had created.
  • Townshend Act

    Townshend Act
    Townshend Act The Townshend act charged higher taxes on oil, tea, paper, glass, paint, and lead. As a reaction people were not very happy about the extra charging which made them angry and that helped lead to the Revolutionary War.
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    Boston Massacre The killing of 5 colonist by the British. Paul Reviere spread the story of the massacre. This made the tension between the British and the Americans grow. This was like the start of the Revolutionary War.
  • Tea Act

    Tea Act
    Tea Act The British allowed the East India Company to sell tea to the colonies. This happened just before the Boston Tea Party. How this affected the Relvolutionary War was it affected the Boston Tea Party which helped lead to the Revolutionary War.
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    Boston Tea Party The patriots threw 342 chests of tea, that was a great value in money, overboard. The British got very mad about this act which lead to the Revolutionary war.
  • Lexington and Concord

    Lexington and Concord
    Lexington and Concord These were battels that started becasue of the tension the was growing between the British and the Colonists. These were battels that kicked off the Revoutionary War.
  • Declaration of Independance

    Declaration of Independance
    Declaration of Independance The Declaration of Independence is now reserved in Washington D.C. The transcript has 56 signatures. The Declaration of Independance was written because of the ending of the Revolutionary War.