The Revolutionary Era

By SierraMcAroy

  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763
    To limit settlement of this territory, Britian issued the Procalamtion of 1763. The Britian troops also saw the proclamation of 1763 as a limit on their freedom.

  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act
    In 1764 parliament passed the sugar act becasue they wanted a new law in place to stop smuggling, Grenvile tried to increase tax revenue. Thge act lowered tax on molasses imported by the colonists.

  • Stamp Act Protests

    Stamp Act Protests
    This law the stamp act placed a tax on almost all printed material in the colonies- everything from newspapers and pamphlets to wills and playing cards. All printed material needed to have a stamp, whcih was applied by British officials.

  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    Relations between the redcoats and the Boston colonists grew more tense. On this day a fight broke out between the townspeople and soldiers.

  • Russians Destroy Ottoman Fleet

    Russians Destroy Ottoman Fleet
    IT also involved the Russo-Turkish war which ranged from 1768-1774 and that is when the rusians had destroyed the Ottoman Fleet.

  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    The Boston Tea Party was a nonviolent political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston.

  • Boston Committee of correspondence

    Boston Committee of correspondence
    The Committees of Correspondence were formed throughout the colonies as a means of coordinating action against Great Britain. Many were formed by the legislatures of the respective colonies.

  • Louis XVI becomes king of France

    Louis XVI becomes king of France
    Louis XVI was King of France from 1774 until 1791, after which he was King of the French from 1791 to 1792, before his deposition and execution during the French Revolution.

  • First continental congress meets

    First continental congress meets
    It was also called the passage of the Coercive Acts (also known as Intolerable Acts by the Colonial Americans) by the British Parliament. The Intolerable Acts had punished Boston for the Boston Tea Party

  • Battles Fought at Lexinton and Concord

    Battles Fought at Lexinton and Concord
    It had just kicked off the American Revolutionary war (1775-83). A confrontation on the Lexington town green started off the fighting, and soon the British were retreating under fire. Many more battles followed, and in 1783 the colonists formally won their independence.