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Revolutionary War Timeline
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Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris was the formal ending to the French and Indian War -
Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 was the end of the French and Indian War. The Proclamation controlled colonies from expanding and also controlled newly formed French colonies. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act required people to pay a tax on every single piece of paper they ever used. -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act forced people to provide British soldiers with anything they need. Including food and housing. -
Townshend Acts
A Townshend Act was an act for granting certain duties among plantations and colonies. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars because of growing tensions. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were a name givin by Patriots to the acts that stripped of the self- government. -
Sons of Liberty
The Sons of Liberty were a group of Patriots that fought to protect the rights of colonists. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a nonviolent protest about the tax to carry tea which Americans had not authorized. -
Continental Congress
The Continental Congress was the group of delegates from each colonie, forming the governing body of the United States during the American Revolution. -
Benedict Arnold
Benedict Arnold was a general during the American Revolutionary war who originally fought for the continental but he defected to the British army. -
Paul Revere
Paul Revere is most famous for his alerting the colonial malitia of the approach of the British army. -
Lexington and Concord
These battles marked the outbreak of the conflict between the thirteen colonies and Britian -
Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine was a political activist. He wrote the Common Sense which was a highly influential pamphlet about American independence -
Loyalists
Loyalists were the people in colonial America who still were and wanted to be a part of, or overseen by, Great Britain. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is a statement that the thirteen colonies in America were all independent from Britian. -
Sam Adams
Sam Adams was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution. -
George Washington
George Washington was the commander-in-chief for the continental army and later became the first president of the United States. -
Patriots
The patriots were kind of the rebels against Great Britain. They were the ones who wanted to be independent. -
John Adams
John Adams was the second president of the United States as well as the first vice president. He was also one of the founding fathers. -
Battle of Saratoga
The Battle of Saratoga was the turing point in the Revolutionary War. -
Battle of Yorktown
This battle was the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris was the formal ending to the American Revolutionary War
