American Revolution Build Up

By Terranx

  • Treaty of Paris

    Britiain allows the colonies to be independent.

  • Proclamation Line of 1763

    Removed several land barriers for the colonists.

  • Sugar Act

    The sugar act actually reduced the tax on molasses, but implementation (stopped smuggling) of the tax which angered colonists who were used to a system of Salutary Neglect.

  • Stamp Act

    A tax on all paper documents produced in the colonies. Papers must have an official stamp to prove that the compony or person had paid the tax.

  • Quartering Act

    UNder this act, colonists must provide housing and supplies for British soldiers stationed in their colony

  • Townshend Acts

    Tax on paper, led, paint, glass, and tea. These taxes are for the sole purpose of generating revenue for England..

  • Boston Massacre

    Colonists gathered and taunted the British soldiers and an altercation took place and resulted in the death of 5 colonists.

  • Boston Tea Party

    Sons of Liberty dump all the tea from a British Tea Ship into the Boston Harbor

  • Intolerable Acts

    England closed off the Port of Boston in response to the Boston Tea Party

  • 1st Continental Congress

    12 of the 13 colonies send representatives to gather and discuss the Intolerable Acts

  • Lexington and Concord

    First military engagement of the revolution

  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    First big battle of the Revolutionary war; it was fought near Boston. The British drove the Americans from the fort only because the Americans were running out of amunition.

  • Olive Branch Petition

    Last ditch effort of AMerican colonists to make peace with the British crown. The king refused to even listen to it.

  • Common Sense

    Thomas Paine wrote this to convince people to continue fighting in the revolutionary war

  • 2nd Continental Congress

    Convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting

  • Declaration of Independence

    Establishing the United States as a nation. Ordered and approved by the Continental Congress and written mostly by Thomas Jefferson.

  • Crisis

    Arguing for independance from Britain

  • Battle of Princeton/ Trenton

    Battles that improved the moral and spirit of the colonial army.

  • Battle of Saratoga

    Turning point of the Revolutionary War. The scope of the victory is made clear by a few clean facts. 5,895 British and Hessian troops surrendered their arms.

  • Battle of Camden

    Major victory for the British in the Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War.

  • Battle of Kings Mountain

    The Patriots defeated the Loyalist Militia commanded by British major Patrick Ferguson.

  • Battle of Cowpens

    Victory by the Continental Army forces under Brigadier General Danial Morgan in the Southern campaign of the American Revolution over the British Army led by Colonel Banastre Tarleton.

  • Battle of Yorktown

    The last battle of the Revolutionary war, fought near the coast of Virginia. Lord Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington.

  • Treaty of Paris

    Signed in Paris representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America ended the American Revolutionary war.