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American Revolution

By hernandezle

  • Stamp Act

    New taxes on court and customs documents, financial papers, playing cards, dice, pamphlets, newspapers, newspaper advertisements, almanacs, and more for the colonies,

  • Boston Massacre

    British troops shoot 5 colonists.

  • Tea Act

    Parliament passes the Tea Act which sparks rebellion in Boston.

  • Boston Tea Party

    Patriots raid a British ship in Boston Harbor and throw 342 chests of tea overboard (to the encouraging cheers of delighted crowds).

  • First Continental Congress

    Fifty-five members representing every colony but Georgia assemble in Philadelphia for the First Continental Congress. The Congress is not formed in order to revolt or to govern, but to act as a convention of ambassadors who will adopt resolutions and protests.

  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    British and American forces engage in the first major conflict of the Revolutionary War at Bunker Hill, Massachusetts.The battle is declared a British victory.