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1764 ; The Sugar Act
Samuel Adams found the committees of Correspondence to improve communication among the colonies ; The sugar act is passed to raise money from the colonies for Britain -
1765 ; The Stamp Act
A series of resolutions is published, stating that the Stamp Act violates the rights of colonists ; The stamp act taxes newspaper licenses colonial paper produces. -
1770 ; The Boston Massacre
Colonists protest and bring the soldiers to trial ; British soldiers fire into a crowd of colonists, killing five men. -
1773 ; The Sugar Act
Colonists protest by dumping chests of British tea into the harbor ; The Tea Act is passed, making British tea cheaper than colonial tea. -
1774 ; The Intolerable Acts
Colonists resentment toward Britain builds ; Boston harbor was closed, and British troops are quartered in colonists' homes. -
1774 ; First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies who met from Sep. 5 to Oct. 26, at Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on June 17, 1775, during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War. The battle is named after Bunker Hill in Charlestown, Massachusetts, which was peripherally involved in the battle. -
Battle of New York
The New York and New Jersey campaign was a series of battles in 1776 and the winter months of 1777 for control of New York City and the state of New Jersey during the American Revolutionary War between British forces under General Sir William Howe and the Continental Army under General George Washington. -
Battle of Princeton
The Battle of Princeton was a battle of the American Revolutionary War, fought near Princeton, New Jersey on January 3, 1777. General Lord Cornwallis had left 1,400 British troops under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Charles Mawhood in Princeton -
Battle of Yorktown
The Siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown, the Surrender at Yorktown, German Battle or the Siege of Little York, ending on October 19, 1781, at Yorktown, Virginia, was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French Army troops led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by British peer and Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis.
