American Revolution Timeline

  • Declaratory Act 1765

    Declaratory Act 1765

    the declaratory act was for revoking the 1765 stamp act
  • Townshend Acts 1767

    Townshend Acts 1767

    it initiated taxes on basically everything
  • French-Indian War (1756-1763)

    French-Indian War (1756-1763)

    the french indian war aka also know as the seven year war
  • stamp act

    stamp act

    its basicily anything that you had to pay taxes on
  • Boston Massacre  March 5 1770

    Boston Massacre March 5 1770

    The Boston Massacre was a deadly riot that occured Boston between American colonists and British soilder
  • Second Continental Congress May 1775

    Second Continental Congress May 1775

    raising the Continental Army through conscription
  • Intolerable Acts (aka Coercive Acts)  1773

    Intolerable Acts (aka Coercive Acts) 1773

    it was a act that british soliders used to just move into peoples house
  • Boston Tea Party  1773

    Boston Tea Party 1773

    American colonists was frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea
  • Quartering Act 1774

    Quartering Act 1774

    allowed royal governors, rather than colonial legislatures, to take peoples house
  • Battle of Lexington & Concord 1775

    Battle of Lexington & Concord 1775

    it was a single shot that was heard around the that marked the start of the american war of independence
  • Common Sense   1776

    Common Sense 1776

    was a 47 page pamphlet written by Thomas advocating independence from Great Britain
  • Declaration of Independence  1776

    Declaration of Independence 1776

    it is the day they signed the declaration of independence