American Revolution timeline

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  • French and Indian war

    Beginning in 1754 and coming to a conclusion in 1763 with the Treaty of Paris. Great Britain made significant territory gains in North America as a result of the war, but disagreements over following frontier policies and how to pay for the war's costs ultimately stoked colonial unrest and sparked the American Revolution.

  • Sugar Act/Plantation Act/Revenue Act

    The Sugar Act was enacted by the British Parliament in 1764. Sugar, molasses, and other goods imported into the American colonies from non-British Caribbean sources were subject to a levy that was strictly enforced.

  • Stamp Act

    The Stamp Act of 1765 was an act of the British Parliament that placed a direct tax on the British colonies in America and mandated that numerous printed products be produced in the colonies on paper that had been stamped and embossed in London.
    It taxed things such as Legal Documents , Broadsides Newspapers and more

  • Townshend Revenue act

    The act made guaranteed that there would be no additional tea taxes and that the price of East Indian Company tea would no longer be overcharged. This made it a more affordable alternative to the illegal type that Townshend believed would encourage American colonists to buy East Indian tea instead.

  • The Boston Massacre

    The Boston Massacre occurred on March 5, 1770, in Boston, where a squad of nine British troops shot five persons out of a throng of 300 or 400 who were verbally insulting them and hurling various projectiles.

  • Tea Act

    An Act of the British Parliament was the Tea Act of 1773. The main goal was to help the ailing British East India Corporation survive by reducing the enormous volume of tea kept by the financially challenged company in its London warehouses.

  • Declaration Of Independence

    The Second Continental Congress, which met at Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776, adopted a proclamation and founding document known as The United States Declaration of Independence, officially The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America.

  • Treaty of paris

    On September 3, 1783, representatives of King George III of Great Britain and the United States of America signed the Treaty of Paris, officially putting an end to the American Revolutionary War and the overall state of hostility between the two nations.