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American Revolution

By _olivia_

  • French and Indian War

    French and Indian War
    The French and Indian War: England and France signed a treaty to end the war, but the war cost Britain a lot of money

  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    The Stamp Act: required taxed stamp on official documents to help offset the cost of the French and Indian war

  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    Stamp Act repealed

  • Boston Masscre

    Boston Masscre
    4 colonists shot by British troops

  • Tea Act

    Tea Act
    the Tea Act was intended to help the East India Company by adding a tax onto the price of tea

  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    in an act of protest, colonists in Boston upset over the Tea Act costumed as Native Americans and dumped imported tea from the ships into the Boston Harbor

  • Intolerable Act

    Intolerable Act
    Britain proceeded to impose a series of acts on the colonies in response to the Boston Tea Party, which Colonists saw as a violation of their rights, ultimately leading them into the Revolutionary Wa

  • First battles

    First battles
    The first battles of the American Revolution were fought at Lexington and Concord, marking the beginnings of armed conflict between Great Britain and America.

  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    Battle of Bunker Hill
    British armies attacked the Americans, expecting an easy victory over the smaller American militias. The Americans fought back but had to withdraw their troops, so Britain won the battle, despite losing more soldiers than the Americans.

  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence
    The Declaration of Independence is drafted and signed

  • Independence

    Independence
    United States declared independence from Great Britain

  • Battle of Trenton

    Battle of Trenton
    General George Washington led the Continental Army across the Delaware River to overtake the Hessian soldiers on December 26, 1776. This battle boosted the morale of the American troops, who had lost recent battles

  • Battle of Yorktown

    Battle of Yorktown
    the last major battle of the Revolutionary War. General George Washington’s army defeated Lord Cornwallis’s British Army, which caused Great Britain to surrender and ended the Revolutionary War. Ended on October 19, 2781

  • Treaty of Paris

    Treaty of Paris
    America and Great Britain signed Treaty of Paris, ending the Revolutionary War

  • Treaty

    Treaty
    America and Great Britain signed Treaty of Paris, ending the Revolutionary War