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  • French and Indian War ends

    French and Indian War ends
    England and her colonies defeated France and Native American allies. With the British treasury drained, Britain thought colonists should pay their share.

  • Navigation Acts

    Navigation Acts
    The Navigation Acts were imposed in 1763 to restrict colonial trade. Considering the colonists were working hard towards establishing trade, this angered them.

  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    Put into place on March 22nd, 1765, the Stamp Act was made to tax and squeeze out money from the Americans. This caused unrest and rebellion among the colonists.

  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    The Boston Massacre was a confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which a group of nine British soldiers shot five American protesters. This assisted in uniting the colonies against Britain.

  • Tea Act

    Tea Act
    In an effort to save their failing tea industry, the British imposed a heavy tea tax on the colonists on May 10th, 1773. This greatly irritated the Americans, and it eventually led to the Boston Tea Party.

  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    On December 16th, 1773, several colonists threw large shipments of tea away in the Boston harbor in response to the Tea Act. This increased tensions between the British and the Americans.

  • Coercive/Intolerable Acts

    Coercive/Intolerable Acts
    The Intolerable Acts were a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party to punish Massachusetts. These laws angered the colonists even more.

  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress
    The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies from September 5, 1774 to October 26, 1774 to discuss the British’s ongoing aggression and the future of America.

  • Second Continental Congress

    Second Continental Congress
    Congress came together at the beginning of May 1775 to prepare for war after the events at Lexington and Concorde.

  • Lexington and Concord

    Lexington and Concord
    On April 19th, 1775, the battles of Lexington and Concord were fought. They were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.

  • U.S. Constitution adopted

    U.S. Constitution adopted
    On September 17, 1787, 39 of the 55 delegates signed the new document. This gave America its own government, separating it from Britain.

  • Declaration of Independence adopted

    Declaration of Independence adopted
    Adopted on July 4th, 1776, this voiced the colonists’ will to be a separate nation, and sparked the beginning of the revolution.

  • Battle of Saratoga

    Battle of Saratoga
    Starting on September 19th, 1777 and ending on October 7th the same year, this battle marked the climax of the war, and it gave the Americans a decisive victory that greatly affect the revolution’s outcome.

  • Winter at Valley Forge

    Winter at Valley Forge
    From December 19th, 1777 to June 19th, 1778 Congress fled to the Valley Forge encampment to escape British capture.

  • Battle of Yorktown

    Battle of Yorktown
    Starting September 28th, 1781 and ending October 19th, 1781, this battle was dubbed “the day the world turned upside down” because the American and French army came together to force a decisive surrender against the British. This was a significant turning point in the war.

  • U.S. Constitution written

    U.S. Constitution written
    During 1787, the Constitution of the United States was written to outline the rules and establishment of the American government.