Road to Revolution Timeline

  • Start of French and Indian War

    Start of French and Indian War
    The French and Indian War was a series of military engagments between Britain and France in North America. The French and Indian War was the American phase of the 7 Years War, which was then underway in europe.
  • The end of the French and Indian War

    The end of the French and Indian War
    This war ended with the signing of The Treaty of Paris by France, Great Britian,and Spain. Before the war ends the British formally declares war of France
  • Proclomation of 1763

    Proclomation of 1763
    The Royal proclomation was issued by King George III following Great Britain acqusition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalacian Mountains.
  • The Stamp Act

    The Stamp Act
    This act was past by the British Parlament. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, news papers, and any other form of publication.
  • Townshend Acts

    Townshend Acts
    The Townshend Acts was a series of four acts passed by the British Parliament in an attempt to insert what it considered to be its historic right to exert authority through suspension recalcitrant representative assembly and through strict provisions for the collection of jobs.
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    The Boston Masssacre was a street fight between a "patriot" mob throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks and a squad of Birtish soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse citizans.
  • Tea Act

    Tea Act
    The tea act was passed by parliament and would launch the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston. The act wasnt intended to raise revenue in American colonies, in fact imposed no new taxes.
  • The Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party
    The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty. This event took place because the colonists did not want to have to pay taxes on the british tea.
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intolerable_Acts
    The Intolerable acts were the American Patriots term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their definance in throwing large tea shipments into the Boston Harbor.
  • Lexington and Concord

    Lexington and Concord
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence
    The battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary war.
  • The Declaration of Independence

    The Declaration of Independence
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence
    The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Continnetal Congress meeting at Phylidelphia which announced that the 13 American Colonies regard themselves 13 new independent states and no longer a part of the British Empire. Instead they was a new nation formed, The United States of America.