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American Revolution Timeline
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Stamp Act
Tax on Legal documents. Required that a stamp be bought for all legal documents and other items. -
Townshed Act
Parliament puts duties on imported goods. -
Boston Massacre
A drunken mob harrarses British soldiers. Soldiers fire their muskets pointblank into the crowd, killing three, wounding two others, and injuring six others. -
Boston Tea Party
Colonists disguised as Indians went abroad three ships broke open the crates, and dumped out 45 tons of tea. -
Intolerable Acts
Series of laws passed by parliament as a result of the Boston Tea Party. they were placed to attempt to punish the colonists. -
Second Continetal Congress STARTS
Delegates from 1st congress gather again. The Americans were in that some leaned towad independence and others toward compromise, coloional self-rule. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
Ameican troops occupied two hills north of Boston; Breeds Hill and Bunker Hill. On June 17th, 1775, the British attacked. They launched three assualts on the Patriots. On the third attack, the British succeeded and captured Breeds Hill. -
Olive Branch Petition
The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 5, 1775, in a final attempt to avoid a full-on war between the Thirteen Colonies that the Congress represented, and Great Britain. The petition affirmed American loyalty to Great Britain and entreated the king to prevent further conflict. -
Common Sense; Published
This was an important document that expressed both levels of the Revolution. The author wrote in a simple, direct syle that suggested that anyone could understand the conflict between Great Britian and the Colonists. -
Declaration of Independce
The Declaration of Independence is the usual name of a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. -
Battle of Trenton
The Battle of Trenton took place on the morning of December 26, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War, after General George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River north of Trenton, New Jersey. -
Battle of Saratoga
The Battle of Saratoga was the turning point of the Revolutionary War. On October 17, 1777, 5,895 British and Hessian troops surrendered their arms. -
Second Continental Congress ENDS
In 1781, the Congress emds. -
Battle of Yorktown
A decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French Army troops led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by British lord and Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis. -
Treaty of Paris ; 2nd
Formally ended the Revolutionary War.
