American Revolution to Civil War timeline

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    Revolutionary War

  • British troops arrive in boston

  • Boston Massacre

    Americans were angered by British soldiers guarding the customs house; a soldier was knocked down by a snowball and shot his musket, sparking a volley into the crowd which kills five civilians.

  • Boston Tea Party

  • intolerable acts

  • Battles of Lexington and Concord

  • Tea act

    Sugar Act
    Tea Act
    Stamp act
    Quartering Act

  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    The British army attempted to take the hills surrounding Boston

  • Declaration of Independence

    This document was written by Thomas Jefferson to state The United States' greivances against their mother country England
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    American War to Civil War timeline

  • Treaty of Paris

    Formerly ended revolutionary war
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    Shays Rebellion

  • constitutional convention

  • Missouri compromise

  • Tarriff of Abominations

  • Wiiliam Lloyd Garrison: the liberator

  • Underground railroad

  • Kansas Nebraska act

  • secessions

    South Carolina secedes from the Union. Followed by Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas.
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    Civil war begins: Abe Lincoln

    "Government cannot endure permanently half slave, half free..." - Abe (becomes president

  • First Bull run

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    Civil war

  • Second bull run

  • Gettysburg

  • 13th ammendment

    to abolish slavery

  • Lee surrenders