Pre-Revolution Timeline

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  • Paul revere

    Paul revere
    Paul Revere was an American silversmith, engraver, early industrialist, and a patriot in the American Revolution
  • The Proclomation of 1763

    The Proclomation of 1763
    Proclamtion of 1763 The Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.
  • The Sugar Act

    The Sugar Act
    Taxed imported sugar, wine, mollases, and coffee. Allowed british officers to try offenders stoped colonies from exporting lumber and iron.
  • The Stamp Act

    The Stamp Act
    Required colonist to pay a direct tax on all paper colonist had to use stamp paper colonist had to use stamped paper for all printed materials.
  • The Townshend Acts

    The Townshend Acts
    Tax the imported of paper, lead, grass, and tea. Set up british courts to enforce the acts.
  • The Boston Massacre

    The Boston Massacre
    The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers.
  • The Tea Act

    The Tea Act
    The Tea Act was the final straw in a series of unpopular policies and taxes imposed by Britain on her American colonies.
  • The Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party
    The boston tea party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773.
  • The Edenton Tea Party

    The Edenton Tea Party
    The Edenton Tea Party was a political protest in Edenton, North Carolina, in response to the Tea Act, passed by the British Parliament in 1773.
  • The Intolerable Acts

    The Intolerable Acts
    The Intolerable Acts were the laws that were passed by British Parliament after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor.
  • The First Continental Congress

    The First Continental Congress
    The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution.
  • Bunker Hill

    Bunker Hill
    The Battle of Bunker Hill was a battle fought on June 17, 1775, during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War. The battle is named for Bunker Hill, which was peripherally involved in the battle, and was the original objective of both the colonial and British troops, though the vast majority of combat took place on the adjacent Breed's Hill.
  • The Battle at Lexington and Concord

    The Battle at Lexington and Concord
    the battles of lexington and concord were the first military engagements of the American revolutionary War. They were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy and Cambridge, near Boston.
  • The mecklenburg resolves

    The mecklenburg resolves
    The Mecklenburg Resolves, or Charlotte Town Resolves, was a list of statements adopted at Charlotte, in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina on May 31, 1775; drafted in the month following the fighting at Lexington and Concord.
  • The Second Continental Congress

    The Second Continental Congress
    The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare, the American Revolutionary War had begun.
  • The Continental Army

    The Continental Army
    The Continental Army was formed after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War by the colonies that became the United States of America.
  • The Battle At Moore's Creek Bridge

    The Battle At Moore's Creek Bridge
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    The Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge was a battle of the American Revolutionary War fought near Wilmington in present-day Pender County, North Carolina on February 27, 1776.
  • The Halfix Resolves

    The Halfix Resolves
    The Halifax Resolves was a name later given to the resolution adopted by North Carolina on April 12, 1776. The adoption of the resolution was the first official action in the American Colonies calling for independence from Great Britain during the American Revolution.
  • The Decloration Of Independance

    The Decloration Of Independance
    The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Continental Congress meeting at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states
  • The battle of Ticonderoga

    The battle of Ticonderoga
    Lieutenant General John Burgoyne's 8,000-man army occupied high ground above the fort, and nearly surrounded the defences. These movements precipitated the occupying Continental Army, an under-strength force of 3,000 under the command of General Arthur St. Clair, to withdraw from Ticonderoga and the surrounding defences.
  • The Winter At Valley Forge

    The Winter At Valley Forge
    The winter at velley forge was a very hard time they had to walk in the snow and their feet were bleeding in the snow and they were also very cold and had to walk a long ways.
  • The Battle Of Kings Mountain

    The Battle Of Kings Mountain
    The Battle of Kings Mountain was a decisive victory in South Carolina for the Patriot militia over the Loyalist militia in the Southern campaign of the American Revolutionary War
  • The Battle of York Town

    The Battle of York Town
    The Siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown, the Surrender at Yorktown or the German Battle, ending on October 19, 1781 at Yorktown, Virginia, was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French Army troops led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by British lord and Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis. The culmination of the Yorktown campaign, the siege proved to be the last major land b
  • The Battle of the Guilford Courthouse

    The Battle of the Guilford Courthouse
    The Battle of Guilford Court House was a battle fought on March 15, 1781, at a site which is now in Greensboro, the county seat of Guilford County, North Carolina, during the American Revolutionary War.
  • The Treaty Of Paris

    The Treaty Of Paris
    The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War.