Road to Revolution Timeline

  • French and Indian War (Beginning)

    French and Indian War (Beginning)
    French and Indian WarThis was a war between the colonies of British America and New France. It helped lead to a the Revolutionary War by the people who helped them retreat would be involved in the war.
  • French and Indian War (Ending)

    French and Indian War (Ending)
    French and Indian War This is the end to a 7 year war between the French and Native Americans.
  • Royal Proclamation

    Royal Proclamation
    Royal Proclamation This is a document that forbid any settlement past a line drawn. It affected the start of the Revolutionary War by making people mad that they could settle past that line.
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    Stamp Act The stamp act was to make all American colonists pay taxes on certain items. This influenced the Revolutionary War by making American colonists mad that they had to pay a high amount of money for certain objects.
  • Townshend Revenue Act

    Townshend Revenue Act
    Townshend Revenue ActThis was an act for granting duties in the British colonies and plantations. This helped influenced the Revolutionary War by making the people not like the British.
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    Boston Massacre The Boston Massacre was a street fight between a "patriot" mob. Several colonists were killed and led to a campaign by speech-writers.
  • Tea Act

    Tea Act
    Tea Act This would spark the final revolutionary movement in Boston. This wasn't supposed to raise tax on things but it did.
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    Boston Tea PartyThis was when the colonists took the tea that had a high tax and threw the shipment back into the sea and they also destoyed it.
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts
    Intolerable ActsThis was when a series of punitave laws were passed by the British Parliment.
  • Lexington and Concord

    Lexington and Concord
    Lexington and ConcordThis was to battle that happened when the Britains tried to seize gunpowder, Sam Adams, and John Hancock.
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence
    Declaration of IndependenceThis said that the original thirteen colonies would seperate from Great Britain. Some people didn't like it thats why it lead to the Revolutionary War.