Causes of the Reveloutionary Timeline

Proclamation of 1763

Oct 7, 1763

King George III prohibited the settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.

Sugar Act

Apr 5, 1764

The Sugar Act had made colonial merchants pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses and other sugar products.

The Stamp Act

Mar 22, 1765

Tax on legal and commercial documents collected in America

The Quartering Act

Mar 24, 1765

each colony was directed to provide for the basic needs of soldiers stationed within its borders.

Stamp Act Congress First Meeting

Oct 7, 1765

First meeting of the colonies to consider activating together to protest policies of the British government.

Stamp Act Congress Second Meeting

Oct 25, 1765

First meeting of the colonies to consider activating together to protest policies of the British government.

Declaratory Act

Mar 18, 1766

Passed when Parliament repealed the Stamp Act said Parliament had supreme authority to rule the colonies

Boston Massacre

Mar 5, 1770

Shots fired by British soldiers in the streets of Boston in 1770 that would spark the American Revolution.

The Tea Act

May 10, 1773

The act’s main purpose was to bail out the floundering East India Company, a key actor in the British economy, that had thousands of pounds of tea to sell.

Boston Tea Party

Dec 16, 1773

Political protest by the Sons of Liberty that destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company.

The Start of The War

Apr 19, 1775

Militiamen and Redcoats clash at Lexington and Concord.

Siezure of Fort Ticonderoga

May 10, 1775

Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys seize Fort Ticonderoga.

Battle of Bunker Hill

Jun 17, 1775

British drive Americans from Breed's Hill.

Declaration of Independence

Jul 4, 1776

Adoption of the Declaration of Independence that was the end of the war but, the beginning of a new country.