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The American Revolution

By mgrieser2

  • The Sugar Act

    Parliament passed an act requiring colonies to pay a tax for sugar. These taxing acts started the controversies that eventually started the American Revolution.

  • The Stamp Act

    The Stamp Act
    The Stamp Act was Parliament's first serious attempt to assert governmental authority over teh colonies. Great Britain was taxing the colonists in order to pay of it's own massive debt.

  • The Quartering Act

    The Quartering Act
    This act required colonists to house and feed British soldiers.

  • The Boston Massacre

  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    Colonists protested the new tax on tea by throwing imported tea into the harbors of Boston.
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    First Continental Congress

    Representatives from each colony met to show a combined authority to Great Britain.

  • Battle of Point Pleasant, Virginia

    Disputed as one of the first battles of the Revolution.

  • The Rides of Paul Revere

    Revere rides to warn of the British soldiers approaching.

  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    Battle of Bunker Hill
    The British drive the Americans from Breed's Hill.

  • The British evacuate Boston

  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence
    Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence.

  • Articles of Confederation adopted

  • Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown, VA

    Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown, VA

  • British troops leave New York City

  • U.S. Constitution is signed

    U.S. Constitution is signed