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Battle of bunker hill

Road to Revolution Timeline of Events

  • 21) Declaration of Independence

    21) Declaration of Independence

    American physician and statesman, delegate to the Continental Congress for New Hampshire (Declaration of Independence)
  • 1st Continental Congress

    1st Continental Congress

    Boston Committee of Correspondence circulated letter urging the colonies to stop trading with England.
  • Treaty of Paris  1763

    Treaty of Paris 1763

    War between Great Britain and France, as well as their respective allies.
  • Proclamation Act

    Proclamation Act

    The end of the French and Indian War, the British intended to conciliate the Indians by checking the encroachment of settlers on their lands.
  • The Sugar Act

    The Sugar Act

    Paying taxes (increased taxes on sugar) which impacted the manufacture in New England.
  • The Stamp Act

    The Stamp Act

    new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.
  • The Quartering Act

    The Quartering Act

    Quartering Act: the outlining the locations and conditions in which British soldiers are to find room and board in the American colonies.
  • Stamp Act Congress

    Stamp Act Congress

    Americans Colonies first Congress was a meeting held between October 7 and 25, 1765. in New York city.The objective of the representatives was to devise a unified protest against new British taxation.
  • Stamp Act Repealed

    Stamp Act Repealed

    Arguing that only their own representative assemblies could tax them, They resorted to mob violence to intimidate stamp collectors into resigning.
  • Declaratory Act

    Declaratory Act

    British Parliament’s taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain
  • Townshend Act

    Townshend Act

    Americans viewed the taxation as an abuse of power, resulting in the passage of agreements to limit imports from Britain.
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    mob throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks at the British soldiers. Several colonists were killed.
  • Committee of Correspondence

    Committee of Correspondence

    Shadow governments organized by the Patriot leaders of the Thirteen Colonies on the eve of the American Revolution.
  • Tea Act

    Tea Act

    indebted British government in the decade leading up to the American Revolutionary War
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    This famed act of American colonial defiance served as a protest against taxation
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts: means American Patriots' a name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor.
  • Declaration of Rights and Grievances

    Declaration of Rights and Grievances

    document written by the Stamp Act Congress and passed on October 19, 1765. It declared that taxes imposed on British colonists without their formal consent were unconstitutional.
  • Lexington & Concord

    Lexington & Concord

    British soldiers quartered in Boston, capture Colonial leaders Sam Adams and John Hancock.But fail because of spies and friends of the Americans leaked word of Gage's plan.
  • Bunker Hill

    Bunker Hill

    The British defeated the Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill in Massachusetts.
  • Appeal to Reason Rejected

    Appeal to Reason Rejected

    Richard Penn and Arthur Lee, representing the Continental Congress, present the so-called Olive Branch Petition to the Earl of Dartmouth. to King George III, but then herefused to receive the petition.
  • Common Sense

    Common Sense

    Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet “Common Sense,” setting forth his arguments in favor of American independence.