American Revolution Timeline

By Paige1o1

  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act
    Parliament passed this act to tax coffee and tea

  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    Taxed any paper product playing cards, newspapers etc.

  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    British soldiers in Boston opened fire on a crowd that was pelting them with snow balls (and rocks).

  • Boston Tea Party

    Some colonists hurled a cargo of British tea into the harbor to protest a tax on tea.

  • The battle of Lexington and Concord

    The battle of Lexington and Concord
    This war became known as the American Revolution

  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence
    Locke's The phrase "life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness," was an idea first considered by Locke in his Two Treatises on Government. Jean-Jacques Rousseau are most notable for the creation of the social contract political philosophy. ... The social contract states that “rational people” should believe in organized government,

  • Battle of Saratoga

    Battle of Saratoga
    American troops defeated the British

  • British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia.

    British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia.

  • Constitutional Convention

    Constitutional Convention

  • Ratification of the US Constitution

    Ratification of the US Constitution
    John Locke's ideas of the people getting to choose their leaders or the power lies with the people is ever present in the US. Montesquie's believed in the separation of power with checks and balances.