American Revolution

By lee011812

  • Treaty of Paris 1763

    Treaty that ended the French and Indian War, fought between the British and French. France had to give up all territories in North America which eliminated any foreign threats to the British colonies.

  • Proclamation Act(B)

    No colonists could settle after the Appalachian Mountains, protecting the Indian's land.

  • Sugar Act(B)

    Taxed sugar and molasses that were imported into the colonies.

  • Stamp Act(B)

    British put taxes on newspaper and any public documents in the colonies.

  • Quartering Act(B)

    Colonists had to house and feed any British soldier and couldn't deny them.

  • Stamp Act Congress(C)

    Also called the "First Congress", the Stamp Act Congress was a meeting between elected colonial representatives to discuss a plan to protest the taxes on the colonies by the British.

  • Stamp Act Repealed(B)

    British House of Commons vote to appeal Stamp Act imposed on the colonies due to the protest in the colonies.

  • Declaratory Act(B)

    Lessened the policies in the Sugar Act because the boycotts in the colonies was hurting British trade.

  • Townshend Act(B)

    British enforces laws in the colonies that result in having the judges and governors being more loyal to Britain.

  • Boston Massacre(B)

    5 colonists are killed by British troops in the streets of Boston. The colonists were unarmed.

  • Committees of Correspondence(C)

    Secret government established by the colonists before the American Revolution. They helped set up the First Continental Congress.

  • Tea Act(B)

    Britain allowed companies to ship and store tea into the colonies in North America.

  • Boston Tea Party(C)

    Colonials throw crates of tea into the Boston Harbor as a act of protest.

  • First Continental Congress(C)

    Representatives from 12 of the 13 colonies held meetings from September 5th to October 26 in 1774.

  • Intolerable Acts(B)

    Laws that were put in place in the colonies because of the Boston Tea Party. Called the Coercive Acts in Britain.

  • Declaration of Rights and Grievances(C)

    Stamp Act Congress declared that taxes on colonists was unconstitutional.

  • Common Sense(C)

    Thomas Paine wrote a pamphlet discussing independence from the colonies from Britain.

  • Lexington and Concord(B)

    First shots from both sides. America's militia take the win and drive the British troops to retreat.

  • Bunker Hill(C)

    1,200 colonial troops led by William Prescott fought against the incoming British Troops.

  • Appeal to Reason Ejected

    Better known as the Olive Branch Petition, this was the last attempt to prevent war with Britain.

  • Declaration of Independence(C)

    Declaring that the 13 colonies were now free states and no longer under British rule, forming the Unites States of America.