Revolutionary War

By makayliemcinnes

  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act
    Lowered tax on foreign molasses, but upped enforcement of tax in hopes colonists would stop smuggling the molasses and actually pay the tax.

  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    Parliament imposes tax on printed materials used in colonies. Causes protests in many colonies.

  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act
    Colonies must provide housing and food to British troops. Again, this is resisted by the colonies.

  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    British soldiers shoot and kill people rioting.

  • Battle of Almance

    Battle of Almance
    Battle between British regulators and North Carolina Militia. Some say this was the battle to begin the revolution.

  • Tea Act

    Tea Act
    Parliament passes act to undercut price of smuggled tea in an attempt to get colonists to buy “their” tea instead.

  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    Sons of Liberty destroy shipment of tea from the East India Company because the Tea Act was believed to infract on their right to no taxation without representation.

  • Intolerable Act

    Intolerable Act
    Laws put in place to punish colonists after the boston tea party. Brought about outrage in the colonies.

  • Petition to the King

    Petition to the King
    petition sent to King George III demanding the repeal of the Intolerable Acts

  • Battle of Concord

    Battle of Concord
    First official battle of the Revolutionary War. American victory.

  • Continental army established

    Continental army established
    Congress establishes the first continental army. Later to be called the United States Army.

  • Articles of the Confederation

    Articles of the Confederation
    The first constitution of the United States. Siege of Charleston, April 8, 1780- British troops siege Charleston, SC. George Washington sends reinforcements but the city is lost on May 12. Considered to be the worst American defeat of the revolutionary war.

  • Articles of confederation ratified

    Articles of confederation ratified
    Articles of confederation ratified

  • British surrender at Yorktown

    British surrender at Yorktown
    American and French troops siege Yorktown, Virginia and claim an overwhelming victory over the British. General Cornwallis surrenders there, leading to the British government to end the war.

  • Treaty of Paris

    Treaty of Paris
    Treaty signed in Paris by representatives of Britain and the United States of America. This treaty officially ended the American Revolutionary War.