turning point timeline

By katelynn :)

  • French and Indian war

    French and Indian war
    French and Britain fighting over Ohio river valley in 1754.

  • Proclamation

    Proclamation
    British produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the eastern Continental divide

  • Sugar act

    Sugar act
    cut the duty on foreign molasses from 6 to 3 pence per gallon

  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act
    the first internal tax levied directly on American colonist by the British parliament

  • Stamp act

    Stamp act
    raising revenue from the British colonies at America

  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    taxed goods imported to the American colonies in 1770

  • Tea act

    Tea act
    granted the company the right to ship its tea directly to the colonies without first landing it

  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    an American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston,

  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts
    punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party.

  • Battles of Lexington & Concord

    Battles of Lexington & Concord
    the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.

  • Olive Branch Petition

    Olive Branch Petition
    adopted by the Second Continental Congress