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Revolution Timeline
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Proclamation
French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, in which it forbade settlers from settling past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
Stamp Act
1765 required the use of stamped paper or stamps on various items - including trade items, commercial and legal documents. -
Townshend Taxes
The Townshend Act taxed the colonist on items such as paper, red and white lead, class paints and tea shipped from England. -
Boston Massacre
A group of 60 colonist gathered together. The colonists taunted the soldiers who were there on duty. The colonists started the massacre by throwing a club knocking a soldier to the ground. After the smoke from the gun fires had cleared it unveiled a bloody scene with wounded and dead colonists. -
The Boston Tea Party
an act that gave the east India tea company a monopoly on selling tea in the American colonies. -
The Intolerable Acts
Patriot name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Massachusetts after the Boston Tea party -
The First Continental Congress
came together to abolish British Tyranny which they would hold collected taxes until Massachusetts was back on a constitutional foundation. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War -
Second Continental Congress
Created the Continental Army. Named George Washington commanding general. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
Battle of Bunker Hill(over 1000 British and 400 colonists were wounded or killed) Took the British 3 waves to finally take the hill. -
Thomas Paine's Common Sense
Written by Thomas Paine. Written for the common people. First document that asked for independence from Britain. -
Declaration of Independence
Who wrote it by Thomas Jefferson and was officially declared from Britain, and signed by 56 delegates. -
Battles of Saratoga
2 Battles - Freeman's farm and Bemis heights. Considered the turning point in the war. -
Battle at Yorktown
:ast major land battle in North America of the American Revolutionary War, also known as the American War of Independence.French wanted revenge and joined forces. -
Treaty of Paris
ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain on one side and the United States of America and its allies on the other.
