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Turning Point Timeline

  • French and Indian War

    French and Indian War
    The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over upcoming frontier policy and paying the war's debt led to the colonist being angry at the British , and ultimately to the American Revolution.
  • The Proclamation

    The Proclamation
    The Proclamation of 1763 contributed because the British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide
  • Sugar Act of 1764

    Sugar Act of 1764
    Sugar Act increased tension because the colonists worries about their rights as British citizens and the intent of the British Parliament to more directly rule the colonies.
  • Stamp Act of 1765

    Stamp Act of 1765
    The issues of taxation and representation raised by the Stamp Act strained relations with the colonies to the point that, 10 years later, the colonists rose in armed rebellion against the British
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    The Boston Massacre was a deadly riot that occurred on March 5, 1770, on King Street in Boston. It began as a street brawl between American colonists and a lone British soldier, but quickly escalated
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    Tea Party increase tensions because the sons of liberty dumped the tea out of the ship
  • Tea Act

    Tea Act
    The tea act was another affect between the British and the colonist because the colonist were being taxed more on tea and could only buy it from some palaces that were approve by the king ,so the colonist resented the king for limiting and rising the high tax on tea
  • Intolerable Act

    Intolerable Act
    The British establish the acts to make an example of the colonies after the Boston Tea Party, and the outrage they caused became the major push that led to the outbreak American Revolution
  • Turning Point (Intolerable Act)

    Turning Point (Intolerable Act)
    This affected the outcome of the conflict because this was a major push into the outbreak. The intolerable act was a major change because the British were establishing tax and so that got the colonist angry and pushed into the outbreak
  • Lexington and concord

    Lexington and concord
    The Lexington and concord contributed because it was the first War also it was the first shot heard around the war.
  • Olive Branch

    Olive Branch
    The Olive Branch Petition was a the final way that the colonist were going to try to fix thing with Britain during the American Revolution. It was a document in which the colonists pledged that they were going to be loyal as long as the get to maintain the British rights as citizens