The American Revolution

  • Navigation Acts

    These acts declared that only English ships were allowed to bring goods into England.
  • French and Indian War ends

    The French and Indian War ends. The British had fought both the French and the Indians, and had won, earning he right to name the war.
  • Stamp Act

    A tax on all paper documents in the colonies. This was Britain’s attempt at getting themselves out of the debt they’d acquired from the Seven Years’ War.
  • Boston Massacre

    A fight broke out in a town square between colonists and British soldiers, resulting in five deaths.
  • Boston Tea Party

    The colonists throw tons of tea into the Boston Harbor to protest unfair taxes.
  • Tea Act

    This was an act of Parliament, which later led to the Boston Tea Party.
  • Coercive/Intolerable Acts

    These acts passed by Great Britain angered the colonists, which led into the Boston Tea Party, and later, the Revolutionary War.
  • First Continental Congress

    Delegates from every colony, sans Georgia, met in Philadelphia to discuss a solution to the Intolerable Acts.
  • Lexington and Concord

    The first battles of the revolutionary war.
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    Second Continental Congress

    Following the First, the delegates met yet again. Georgia was without a representative for a second time. Although a delegate was sent from a church in Georgia, he was not an official delegate for the colony.
  • Declaration of Independence adopted

    The U.S. officially declared their independence from Britain.
  • Battle of Saratoga

    A victory for the Continental Army, and a turning point in the Revolutionary War.
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    Winter at Valley Forge

    George Washington and his troops endured a difficult winter during the war.
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    Battle of Yorktown

    The British surrendered, ending the Revolutionary War.
  • U.S. Constitution written

    The U.S. Constitution was signed during the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.
  • U.S. Constitution adopted

    The U.S. officially ratified their constitution.