amirican revltion timeline

By kyaira16

  • Enlightenment

    The Enlightenment included a range of ideas centered on the value of human happiness, the pursuit of knowledge obtained by means of reason and the evidence of the senses, and ideals such as natural law, liberty, progress, toleration, fraternity, constitutional government, and separation of church and state

  • The French and Indian War

    The French and Indian War was a theater of the Seven Years' War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French, each side being supported by various Native American tribes.

  • son of liberty

    The Sons of Liberty was a loosely organized, clandestine, sometimes violent, political organization active in the Thirteen American Colonies founded to advance the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government.

  • Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts.

  • Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party was a political protest. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.

  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought during the Siege of Boston in the first stage of the American Revolutionary War. The battle is named after Bunker Hill in Charlestown, Massachusetts, which was peripherally involved.

  • Battle of Trenton

    The Battle of Trenton was a small but pivotal American Revolutionary War battle

  • Battle of Yorktown

    the decisive engagement of the American revolution.

  • treaty of paris

    ended the American Revolution and formally recognized the United States as an independent nation

  • Constitution is ratified

    The Constitution would take effect once it had been ratified by nine of the thirteen State legislatures; unanimity was not required.

  • Bill of Rights adopted

    A joint House and Senate Conference Committee settled remaining disagreements in September. On October 2, 1789, President Washington sent copies of the 12 amendments adopted by Congress to the states.