Timeline of Revolutionary Events

By cjames44

  • Sugar Act (April 5, 1764)

    Taxation on imported sugar and molasses.

  • Currency Act (September 1, 1764)

    Regulated paper money issued by the colonies of British America.

  • Stamp Act (March 22, 1765)

    Imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.

  • Quartering Act (March 24, 1765)

    Forced local colonial governments to provide provisions and housing to British soldiers stationed in the 13 Colonies of America.

  • Townshend Acts (June 15 - July 2, 1767)

    Designed to collect revenue from the colonists in America by putting customs duties on imports of glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea.

  • Boston Massacre (March 5, 1770)

  • Tea Act (May 10, 1773)

  • Boston Tea Party (December 16, 1773)

  • Intolerable Acts (March 24, 1774)

    Harsh laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774. They were meant to punish the American colonists for the Boston Tea Party and other protests.

  • Lexington and Concord (April 19, 1775)

    Lexington-British
    Concord- Americans