American History Timeline

By DamariSil

  • French and Indian War (Beginning)

    War with Native Americans and France.

  • French and Indian War (End)

    End of the war

  • Proclamation of 1763

    Treaty saying colonists can't go past appalachian mountains.

  • Sugar Act

    British tax colonists on sugar

  • Stamp Act

    British tax colonists on stamps

  • Quartering Act

    Made the colonists provide housing for the british soldiers

  • Townshend Act

    New taxes on imports of paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea.

  • Boston Massacre

    British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston.

  • Tea Act

    British begin taxing tea imports

  • Boston Tea Party

    Colonist protest against taxation without representation by throwing tea into a harbour

  • Coercive Acts

    Four laws passed to enforce British authority in Boston

  • First Continental Congress

    First meeting of delegates to discuss issues in the colony

  • Shot Heard Around The World

    First shot of the American Revolutionary War

  • Second Continental Congress

    Founded when the British failed to address the grievances of the First Continental Congress and to organize a Continental Army

  • Common Sense

    Common Sense challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy.

  • Declaration of Independence

    Day when America declared their independence from Great Britain

  • Shot Heard Around the World

    Assasination of Franz Ferdinand sparking the beginning of the Great War. (Comparing to 1774 Shot Heard Around the World)

  • Irish Proclamation of Independence

    Irish declared independence from Great Britain. Composed by 7 members of the citizen military. (Comparing to Declaration of Independence)