Timeline

  • Navigation Acts

    Navigation Acts

    An act that let the Commonwealth regulate England’s international trade
  • French and Indian War ends

    French and Indian War ends

    The Treaty of Paris is signed
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

    An act by the Parliament of Britain which put a tax on all legal papers
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    A riot that happened between Americans and British soldiers that became bloody
  • Tea Act

    Tea Act

    The British Parliament let the East India Company be the only company to sell tea
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    Americans were angry at the British for imposing taxes without representation and so they dumped tea imported from the British East India Company into the harbor
  • Coercive/Intolerable Acts

    Coercive/Intolerable Acts

    A series of laws passed by the British Parliament to punish Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party
  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress

    Served as the government of the 13 colonies
  • Lexington & Concord

    Lexington & Concord

    They were the first battles of the American Revolutionary War
  • Second Continental Congress

    Second Continental Congress

    A meeting of delegates that United the American Revolutionary War
  • Declaration of Independence adopted

    Declaration of Independence adopted

    America got rid of their connections to Britain
  • Battle of Saratoga

    Battle of Saratoga

    Marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign and gave America a victory over Britain in the American Revolutionary War
  • Winter at Valley Forge

    Winter at Valley Forge

    It was the third of eight winter camps for the Continental Army
  • Battle of Yorktown

    Battle of Yorktown

    Charles Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington’s army
  • U.S. Constitution written

    U.S. Constitution written

    It was written at the Philadelphia Convention
  • U.S. Constitution adopted

    U.S. Constitution adopted

    The Constitution was put in place