Timeline for History

  • French and Indian War

    French and Indian War

    War between Great Britain and France. The indians helped the french.
  • Treaty of Paris, 1763

    Treaty of Paris, 1763

    Ended the French and Indian War between Great Britain and France
  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763

    Made sure the colonists couldn't settle past the Appalachian mountains
  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act

    Tax on sugar and molasses
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

    Tax on all paper made goods
  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act

    Required colonists to house British Soldiers in their homes.
  • Declaratory Act

    Declaratory Act

    Repeal of the Stamp Act
  • Townshend Acts

    Townshend Acts

    Tax on glass and lead
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    British Army soldiers shot and killed people while under intense attack by a mob
  • Tea Act

    Tea Act

    Reduce the massive amount of tea held by the British East India Company in its London warehouses
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    Colonists dress as Indians and take over British ships and dump tea into the Boston harbor
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts

    punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance of throwing a large tea shipment into Boston Harbor
  • 1st Continental Congress

    1st Continental Congress

    a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies
  • 2nd Continental Congress

    2nd Continental Congress

    managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence
  • Battles of Lexington and Concord

    Battles of Lexington and Concord

    The first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    Battle of Bunker Hill

    The British defeated the Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill in Massachusetts.
  • Olive Branch Petition

    Olive Branch Petition

    attempt to assert the rights of the colonists while maintaining their loyalty to the British crown
  • Common Sense

    Common Sense

    A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine to encourage independence from Great Britain
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

    Document that declared independence from Britain
  • Battle of Saratoga

    Battle of Saratoga

    Turning point in the revolutionary war.
  • Battle of Yorktown

    Battle of Yorktown

    a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French Army
  • Treaty of Paris, 1783

    Treaty of Paris, 1783

    Ended the American Revolutionary War.