american revolution timeline

By tressabrooke12

  • The Stamp Act

    The Stamp Act
    tax on legal documents. required a legal stamp for documents. ( playing cards, newspapers, ect.)

  • Townshend Act

    Townshend Act
    parliment puts duties on important goods (tea, paper, glass, paints)

  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    a drunken man throws a snowball at a soldier and then everyone joins in on it. A soldier shot one of the people.

  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    the colonists disguised themselves as Mohawk Indians and take over the ships. And dumped all the tea into the river. ( 45 tones )

  • Battle of Trenton

    Battle of Trenton
    Took place on the morning of Christmas. During the American Revolutionary war. After General George Washington 2,400 men across the river and march south of the town.

  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts
    all the shipping in Boston is shut down until the colonists pay back all the money.

  • Second Continental Congress

    Second Continental Congress
    first gathered in May 1775. Same people came. The newer people are Ben Franklin, John Hancock, and Thomas Jefferson.

  • Battle of Bunker

    Battle of Bunker
    American troops occupied two hills north of Boston. Breeds Hill and Bunker Hill. British won but last half the people that they came with.

  • Olive Branch Petition

    Olive Branch Petition
    It was a attempt to understand the rights of the colonists while staying true to their loyalty to the British crown. But the King had denied it and said it was a act of rebellion.

  • Common Sense was published

    Common Sense was published
    Written by Thomas Paine that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britian.

  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence
    Declaration Of Independence. Written by Thomas Jefferson. The Congress formally adopted it in Philadelphia. Other people that had worked on the Declaration are Ben Franklin and John Adams.

  • Battle of Saratoga

    Battle of Saratoga
    It was a turning point for the Revoultionary war. 5,895 British and Hessian troops surrendered their arms.General John Burgoyne had lost 86% of his expeditionary force that triumphantly marched into New York from Canada.

  • Yorktown

    Yorktown
    It was the last major engagment of the American Revolution.

  • Treaty of Paris

    Treaty of Paris
    formally ended the revolutionary war. Great Britian, France, Spain and the US involved in war.