Revolutionary War Events

By Isaacbroadhead43

  • Sugar and Molasses Act

    Sugar and Molasses Act
    It placed a tax of six pence per gallon on sugar and molasses.

  • Currency Act

    Currency Act
    This is an act that regulated the amount of currency going through the colonies.

  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    1756-1766
    A tax on different paper. You would get a stamp and people would check them.

  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763
    It was a rule that the colonists could not cross a certain point of the country's territory that was decided by the king.

  • Quartering Act of 1765

    Quartering Act of 1765
    Troops were housed in the homes of the colonists they had to feed the troops and wash their clothes.

  • Townshend Acts

    Townshend Acts
    A tax that wasn’t noticed that raised the prices on many random material.

  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    The British killed five people because of a snowball fight.

  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    Colonists threw tea into the water as a protest against the British.

  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress
    A meeting of people who talked about all the bad stuff Britain did. September 5 to October 26

  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts
    Several laws to punish the colonists for the Boston tea party.

  • Lexington/Concord

    Lexington/Concord
    The first battles of the British vs. the colonists. They took place in Lexington and Concord.