Timeline

  • Treaty of Paris of 1763

    Treaty of Paris of 1763

    Ended the French and Indian war
  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763

    October 1763. King George III prohibits colonists from going past the Appalachian Mountains.
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

    Taxed all printed items
  • Declaratory Act

    Declaratory Act

    Approved after stamp act was repealed
  • Townshend Acts

    Townshend Acts

    Placed Taxes on items not made in the colonies
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    When the British troops attacked the innocent colonist and killed 5 of them.
  • Tea Act

    Tea Act

    When Taxes were placed on Tea.
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    The colonist dressed up like Indians and threw the tea into the sea
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts

    When they closed Boston’s port after the Boston Tea Party.
  • 1 st Continental Congress

    1 st Continental Congress

    They met in Philadelphia
  • Midnight Ride

    Midnight Ride

    Revere, Cheswell, Dawes April. When they went around the colonies shouting “the British are coming!”
  • Lexington and Concord

    Lexington and Concord

    The “shot heard ‘round the world”. The first shot starting the revolution. Thomas Gage sent 700 soldiers to destroy guns the colonists had stored in the town of Concord, just outside of Boston.
  • 2st Continental Congress

    2st Continental Congress

    Meets in Philadelphia