American Revolution

By DallinJ

  • French-Indian War 1756-1763

    French-Indian War 1756-1763
    Known as the Seven years war, The French and Indian war, where the British and French fighting for the colonies, ultimately the British won. Not only did they have control of the 13 colonies, but they took control over more land with their win over the French.

  • Stamp Act 1765

    Stamp Act 1765
    Stamp Act was the first internal tax directly on American colonists by the British parliament. This act was imposed on all paper documents in the colonies. This was after the British were in debt from the "Seven year war"

  • Declaratory Act 1765

    Declaratory Act 1765
    This Act was to assert authority of the British government to tax the colonies after the Stamp Act was repealed.

  • Townshend Acts 1767

    Townshend Acts 1767
    The Townshend Acts initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. This lead to colonist to discourage the purchase of British goods.

  • Boston Massacre 1770

    Boston Massacre 1770
    British troops in Boston got into a confrontation with the colonists, One of the colonist hit a red coat with a club, starting the massacre, five men were killed.

  • Boston Tea Party 1773

    Boston Tea Party 1773
    Political protest, where Colonist dumped British Tea into the waters for imposing taxation without representation.

  • Intolerable Acts 1773

    Intolerable Acts 1773
    The Intolerable Acts were of series of laws that punished the colonists, Closing most of the Boston port and more.

  • Quartering Act 1774

    Quartering Act 1774
    This Act made it to where Great Britain would be able to house british troops in American barracks and public houses.

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord 1775

    Battle of Lexington and Concord 1775
    This kicked off the American Revolutionary war, hundreds of british troops marched to Concord to seize an arms cache, Colonist caught on and then the fighting had started. British troops then began retreating under intense fire.

  • Second Continental congress 1775

    Second Continental congress 1775
    This was a meeting between the colonies to become independent from Britain and becomes it own nation.

  • Common Sense 1776

    Common Sense 1776
    Common sense was a 47 page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine, advocating independence from Great Britain.

  • Declaration of Independence 1776

    Declaration of Independence 1776
    The DOI is the document that declared America independence from Great Britain