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Timeline of Revolutionary Events

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  • Sugar Act

    Tax on sugar intended to raise revenue.

  • Currency Act

    Prohibiting the colonies from issuing paper money, passed by Parliament.

  • Stamp Act

    A tax on many types of printed materials used in the colonies.

  • Quartering Act

    Requires the Colonies to provide housing, food, and other provisions to British troops.

  • Townshend Acts

    Placing taxes on many items imported into America.

  • Boston Massacre

  • Tea Act

    Tax on tea from Britain.

  • Boston Tea Party

    Sons of Liberty dressed as Indians and dumped tons of tea into the bay.

  • Intolerable Acts

    Acts passed to punish the colonies for the Boston Tea Party.

  • First Continental Congress

    The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies who met from September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania early in the American Revolution.

  • Lexington and Concord

    "Shot heard around the world" British won Lexington, but the Americans won Concord.

  • Second Continental Congress

    Adopted the Declaration of Independence