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FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR BEGINS
BRITIAN AND ITS ALLIES FOUGHT FRENCH AND INDIANS OVER CONTROL OF OHIO RIVER VALLEY -
ALBANY PLAN OF UNION
IN ALBANY TO DISCUSS HOW TO FIGHT FRANCE. -
FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR ENDS
WAR ENDS -
PONTIAC REBELLION
INDIANS FIGHT BRITISH IN OHIO VALLEY -
PROCLIMATION OF 1763
THE PROCLIMATION OF 1763 SAID THAT COLONISTS COULD NOT SETTLE WEST OF APPLALACHIN MOUNTAINS -
SUGAR ACT
BRITISH TAX IN SUGAR, COFFEE, CLOTH TO PAY FOR WAR -
STAMP ACT
THE STAMP ACT TAXED ANYTHING PRINTED ON PAPER -
STAMP ACT CONGRESS
NINE COLONIES MET IN NYC DECIDED THAT ONLY COLONIAL GOVERNMENT COULD TAX THE COLONIES -
STAMP ACT REPEALED
STAMP ACT REPEALED -
TOWNSHEND ACT
THE TOWNSHED ACT TAXED TEA, GLASS, PAINTS, PAPER. TAX WAS TO PAY FOR SERVICES OF BRITISH GOVENORS AND SOLIDERS IN THE COLONIES -
BOSTON MASSACRE
RIOT AT BOSTON CUSTOMS HOUSE SHOTS FIRED.... 5 COLONIST DEAD -
TEA TAX
RETAINED TAX ON TEA ONLY -
TEA ACT
THE TEA ACT ALLOWED THE COLONIST TO BUY DIRECTLY FROM EAST INDIAN TEA COMPANY -
INTOLERABLE ACT
SEVERAL LAWS THAT WERE PUNISHMENT FOR THE BOSTON TEA PARTY. ONE OF THE LAWS WAS THE QUARTERING ACT WHICH REQUIRED PEOPLE TO HOUSE SOLIDERS IN THEIR HOMES. -
BATTLES IN LEXINGTON AND CONCORD
BRITISH ARMY MOVES TOWARD CONCORD TO SEIZE WEAPONS AND AMMUNITION. SHOTS FIRED AT LEXINGTON AND COLONIST KILLED -
SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
DELEGATES MET TO PREPARE FOR WAR; CREATED NEW ARMY; CHOSE GEORGE WASHINGTON AS COMMANDER. -
BATTLE AT BUNKER HILL
SUPRISE ATTACK BY AMERICANS ON THE BRITISH SOLIDERS. BRITISH WON THE AMERICANS RAN OUTV OF AMMUNITION -
FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
DELEGATES FROM THE 13 COLONIES MET IN PHILADELPHIA. WROTE A LETTER TO KING GEORGE ASKING HIM TO STOP TAXING THE COLONIST WITHOUT THEIR AGREEMENT AND TO REPEAL THE INTOLERABLE ACTS. -
BOSTON TEA PARTY
PATRIOTS DISQUISED AS INDIANS DUMP CRATES OF TEA INTO OR HARBOR AS PROTEST AGAINST TEA TAX -
RICHARD HENRY LEE
OFFICIALLY ASKS THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS TO DECLARE INDEPENDENCE -
CONGRESS VOTES FOR INDEPENDENCE
THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS VOTES THAT THE COLONIES WERE FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES -
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
THE DELEGATES ACCEPT THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE -
DECLARATION OFFICIAL
BY AUGUST 2,1776, ALL 13 COLONIES HAD SIGNED AND APPROVED THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE -
BATTLE ON LONG ISLAND
BRITSH DEFEAT CONTINENTAL ARMY. WASHINGTON HAS TO RETREAT -
BATTLE AT TRENTON NJ
SUPRISE ATTACK ON CHRISTMAS DAY BY WASHINGTON. PATRIOT VICTORY -
BATTLE OF SARATOGA
BRITISH ATTACK FROM CANADA.KOSCIUSZKO HELPS CONTINENTAL ARMY. -
MARQUIS DE LAYFETTE
MARQUIS DE LAYFETTE JOINS WASHINGTON'S ARMY -
GENERAL VON STEUBEN
GENERAL VON STEUBEN TEACHES THE ARMY TO BE BETTER SOLIDERS. -
BATTLE AT SAVANNAH, GEORGIA
COMBINED FRENCH AND AMERICAN ATTACH THE BRITISH IN THEIR SOUTHERN STRONG HOLD OF SAVANNAH -
BATTLE AT CHARLESTON, SC
THE BATTLE AT CHARLESTON WAS A MILITARY CONFLICT BETWEEN THE KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITIAN AND ITS THIRTEEN COLONIES IN NORTH AMERICA DURING THE AMERICAN REVONLUTIONARY WAR -
BATTLE AT NINETY-SIX SC.
THE SIEGE OF NINETY SIX WAS THE SIEGE IN WESTERN SOUTH CAROLINA LATE IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR -
BATTLE AT YORKTOWN
CORNWALLIS SURRENDERS TO THE AMERICANS . LAST BIG BATTLE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. -
TREATY OF PARIS
PEACE TREATY BETWEEN BRITIAN AND THE UNITED STATES. MADE THE UNITED STATES AN INDEPENDENT NATION.
