Pre-Revolutionary Timeline

  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763
    No Settlement West of the Appalachian Mountains, The colonists reacted angry towards Britain.
  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act
    Imposed a tax of six pence per gallon of molasses
  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act
    Makes colonists provide homes for the British soldiers.
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    New tax to make Americans colonists pay a tax on every piece of printing paper they used.
  • The Declaratory Act

    The Declaratory Act
    The Declaratory Act was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the Sugar Act.
  • Repeal of Stamp Act

    Repeal of Stamp Act
    After months of protest, and a appeal by Ben Franklin before the British House of Commons
  • Townshend Act/Duties

    Townshend Act/Duties
    In June 1767 the English parliament decided to cut Britain land taxes.
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    The killing of five colonists by British soldiers on March 5, 1770.
  • Tea Act

    Tea Act
    Passed by parliament on May 10,1773 granted by the British East India Company, tea a monopoly on tea sales in America.
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773.
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts
    Where the American Patriots terms for a series of punitive laws passed by the British parliament.
  • Lexington and Concord

    Lexington and Concord
    The Battles of Lexington and Concord, fought on April 19, 1775, kicked off the American Revolutionary War.
  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    Battle of Bunker Hill
    British defeated the Americans, but gave Americans a confidence boost.
  • Second continental congress

    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, that, soon after warfare, declared the American Revolutionary War had begun.
  • U.S. Constitution signed

    U.S. Constitution signed
    The Constitution was written during the Philadelphia Convention—now known as the Constitutional Convention—which convened from May 25 to September 17, 1787. It was signed on September 17, 1787.