Road to Revolution TimeLine 5.3 & 5.4

By Mason J
  • Sugar act

    Sugar act

    Duties on molasses and sugar
  • Stamp act

    Stamp act

    Tax on all paper products
  • Declaratory act

    Declaratory act

    to give Parliament power over the colonist.
  • Townshend act

    Townshend act

    Taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    a coloists crowd gathered around a group of soldiers throwing stuff and saying insaltes
  • Tea act

    Tea act

    allowed british east india company to sell tea directly to colonists.
  • Boston tea party

    Boston tea party

    Members of sons of liberty dumped englands tea in the boston harbor.
  • Quartering act

    Quartering act

    required colonists to house soldiers
  • Intolerable acts

    Intolerable acts

    a law pased by england to punish the colones
  • Sep 5, 1774

    Sep 5, 1774

    The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British Colonies, that met to deal with the Intolerable Acts.
  • First Continental Congress meets

    First Continental Congress meets

    they voted to Boycott all British Trade
  • 1,000’s of Redcoats in Boston

    1,000’s of Redcoats in Boston

    General Gage brings thousands of British soldiers to Boston
  • Midnight ride of Paul Revere

    Midnight ride of Paul Revere

    Paul Revere rides to warn the Sons of Liberty in Lexington and Concord the British are coming
  • Battle of Concord

    Battle of Concord

    Americans Stop British and force them to retreat back to Boston and the colonist won.
  • Battles of Lexington & Concord

    Battles of Lexington & Concord

    1st battle of American Revolutionary War and the British won.
  • Capture of Fort Ticonderoga

    Capture of Fort Ticonderoga

    they tock all the supplies from the fort and the colonist won.
  • second continental congress meet

    second continental congress meet

    the second continental congress meet incloded John and Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, Richard Henry Lee, and George Washington, the prited money. made a post office. made a army for george washinton.
    sent olive poticion asking the king to keep there right in respons of that the king hires 30000 gurman trops in respons.
  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    Battle of Bunker Hill

    they fought on Breed’s Hill and it was english victory.
  • washington arrives on the outskirts of boston.

    washington arrives on the outskirts of boston.

    he relised the men ar disorinized and of need punishment
  • "common sense" by Thomas Paine

    "common sense" by Thomas Paine

    to imspier the colonist to fight for there freedom and to be more petreodic
  • british srender of boston

    british srender of boston

    washington put connons on dorchester that over looks boston.
  • second congress meets again

    second congress meets again

    debate of declaring independence over england.
    Thomass jefferson was the primary authary.
  • second congress votes for independins

    second congress votes for independins

    all of the 13 colones voted for freedom.
  • the declartion of independence was signed

    the declartion of independence was signed

    it states the goverment is there to suport the rights of the colonist if not is may be abolished