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American Revolution Timeline
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Stamp Act
a tax on legal documents, a stamp required to be bought for all legal documents. -
Townshend Act
This act was created to support civil government in colonies. this put taxes on imported goods. -
Boston Massacre
drunken mob harasses british, shots were fired. this was 1st blood shed/ scermishing -
Boston Tea Party
Colonist boarded 3 british ships and broke open tea crates and spilled them into harbor. In result they closed harbor. -
Intolerable act
It was an act were they removed the colonists out of the governemnt, and replaced them with Governor or king. -
Second Continental Congress
Added more delegates from each Colony. -
Olive Branch
This was the last resort to end war between 13 colonies and Great Britian. -
Common Sense
Written to suggest anyone could understand the conflict between Great Britain and Colonists. Wrote by Thomas Paine -
Declaration of Independence
This stated thet we declared independence, and break off from England -
Trenton
George Washington sneak attacked British across Delaware river. Colonits defeated the mercanaries. -
Battle at Saratoga
Burgoyone tried to attack General Gates, but Gate's used guerrilla warfare and Burgoyone surrendered. Colonists won, and this was a major turning point for the colonists. -
Battle of Yorktown
Yorktown battle Washington's troops joined Layfayette's troops to make a bigger army. Britain suffered many casualities, they were unable to escape and they surrendered. -
2nd Treaty of Paris
This formally ends the Revolutionary War. This made colonists now free from England.
