Road To Revolution Timeline

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    French and Indian War

    War between France and Britain where British won, leaving them in debt. They demanded the colonies pay their fair share of this debt but the colonies where feeling more independent of the american colonies after this victory.

  • Proclamation of 1763

    Prohibited settlement beyond the Appalachian Mountains, offending the colonists and stirring up a rebellious and defiant spirit.

  • Stamp Act

    Britain required all paper documents or cards to have a stamp, raising taxes to pay the debt in a very direct way. George Grenville, author of the Stamp Act, explained that this was a direct tax, unlike the previous indirect and sneaky taxes. This act lead to an uproar in the colonies over an issue that was to be a major cause of the Revolution: taxation without representation.

  • Stamp Act Congress

    27 delegates from 9 colonies met in New York City to write up a list of grievances against Britain, taking a step towards colonial unity. They drew up a "Declaration of the Rights and Grievances of the Colonists." In this document they declared that: As subjects of the British king, had the same rights as British subjects living in Britain.

  • Boston Massacre

    Colonists provoked British into firing their weapons into the crowd in confusion. It was spun by the propaganda machine into a tale of British cruelty and inhumanity. This event in Boston helped to unite the colonies against Britain.

  • Boston Tea Party

    Colonists in Boston disguised as Indians dumped tea from the British East India Company into the Boston Harbor. The effect of the Boston Tea Party was that the British passed the Intolerable acts, which were very harsh and cruel to the people of Boston. The British shut down Boston Harbor until all of the 340 chests of British East India Company tea were paid for.

  • Intolerable Acts

    British backlash towards the Boston Tea Party which placed restrictions on colonists such as the outlawing of town meetings and closing of the Boston Harbor. Unfortunately for Britain, Intolerable Acts only made the situation worse by uniting the colonies in their protests to join the First Continental Congress on September 1774.

  • First Continental Congress

    All 13 colonies except Georgia met in Philadelphia to create the Association which called for a complete boycott on all British goods. By reversing the economic sanctions placed on the colonists, the delegates hoped Britain would repeal its Intolerable Acts.

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

    British troops were sent to Lexington and Concord to seize John Hancock and Samuel Adams along with colonial gunpowder. On April 19, 1775, the shot heard round the world was fired at Lexington and at Concord, the Americans pushed the British back. While the colonists lost many minutemen, the Battles of Lexington and Concord were considered a major military victory and displayed to the British and King George III that unjust behavior would not be tolerated in America.

  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    TheBattle of Bunker Hill is considered a major colonial victory because, even though they ran out of ammo and retreated, they slaughtered massive amounts of British soldiers. This caused George III to declare that the colonies were in full rebellion and finally saw the colonies as a threat and now took them seriously.