The American Revolution

  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763

    British announced that the land won during the French and Indian War would be reserved for the Native Americans.
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

    Colonists had to pay tax on printed materials that they used.
  • Quatering Act

    Quatering Act

    This act required the colonists to put British soldiers up in their homes. Colonists had to provide fuel, candles, beer, and transportation for the troops.
  • Townshend Acts

    Townshend Acts

    Indirect tax was being being imposed on glass, lead, paper and tea.
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    Colonists began to harass British troops. They threw anything that they could find. As a result five colonists were killed.
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    Colonists dressed up as Indians and threw tea into the harbor as a sign of rebelling.
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts

    Coercive acts closed the port of Boston and imposed military rule on all of Massachusetts.
  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress

    A meeting of delegates from every state that felt the need to present their complaints to the British as a unified group.
  • Lexington and Concord

    Lexington and Concord

    Colonists joined the militia that was created by the Continental Congress, to met British soldiers.
  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    Battle of Bunker Hill

    The colonists lost to the British troop. In result to this lost, it encouraged other colonists to help in the revolutionary war.
  • Battle of Sarratoga

    Battle of Sarratoga

    Secured a critical French alliance that will help out the Americans.
  • Battle of Yorktown

    Battle of Yorktown

    The Americans winning the signaled the end of the British ruling over the colonies.
  • Treaty of Paris

    Treaty of Paris

    It was signed by King George and representatives from the colonies. This treaty ended the American revolution.