American Revolution

By Danielle_

  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    Official government stamp required first internal tax paying for British protection.

  • Townshend Act

    Townshend Act
    Import duties on tea, lead, glass, and paint colors. Money used to pay royal governors.

  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    Crowd of colonists threaten British soldiers
    British open fire killing five Americans.

  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    British sold tea even more cheaply than smuggled tea, colonist boarded tea ships then dumped the tea overboard.

  • Intolerable Act

    Intolerable Act
    Closed the port of Boston
    American town meetings banned

  • Second Continental Congress

    Second Continental Congress
    Decided to officially separate from Great Britain
    Committee selected to draft the reasons for separation.

  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    Battle of Bunker Hill
    Located near Boston.
    Red coats victorious in third charge.
    Americans ran out of ammunition.
    Moral victory for American Army.
    Washington took command of the army two weeks after this battle.

  • Olive Branch Petition

    Olive Branch Petition
    Adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 5, 1775, in a final attempt to avoid a full-on war between the Thirteen Colonies, that the Congress represented, and Great Britain. The petition affirmed American loyalty to Great Britain and entreated the king to prevent further conflict.

  • Common Sense is published

    Common Sense is published
    A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain in the summer of 1776.

  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence
    Written by Thomas Jefferson.
    It is the "Birth Certificate of the United States.
    Document listed rights and grievances against King George III
    John Hancock was the first to sign in large print.

  • Trenton

    Trenton
    Surprise attack the day after Christmas, George Washington crossed the Delaware. German leader Colonel Rall mortally wounded.

  • Battle at Saratoga

    Battle at Saratoga
    The turning point of the war, the biggest American victory at the time. February 1778 France and America formed an alliance. Spain declared war in 1779.

  • Yorktown

    Yorktown
    French blockade aided this final battle, escape from the British was impossible. Pinned in by American and French naval fleets. General Benjamin Lincoln accepted the surrender sword.

  • Treaty of Paris

    Treaty of Paris
    Ends the Revolutionary War. Set many geograpjic boarders including United States and Canada. Florida was returned to Spain. British merchants must be paid for lost items. Loyalists must be paid for lost property.