Road to Revolution timeline of events

Treaty of Paris 1763

Feb 10, 1763

this treaty ended the French and Indian war

Proclamation act

Oct 7, 1763

the colonists werent supposed to croos a line in the appalachian mountains because Britain wanted that land for themselves

The Sugar Act

Apr 5, 1764

The sugar act halved the price of molasses and introduced stricter enforcement on regulation of the trade.

The Stamp Act

Mar 22, 1765

this was a tax that forced colonists to pay a tax for every piece of printed paper they used.

The Quartering Act

May 15, 1765

laws from the British government requiring colonists to house and feed British troops.

Stamp act congress

Oct 7, 1765

The Stamp Act Congress was a meeting held to gather a plan to protest the British taxes

Stamp Act Repealed

Mar 22, 1766

The British Government removed the stamp act.

Townshend Act

Jan 1, 1767

These were a series of acts enacted so that the taxes on the colonies would be raised to pay the salaries for the Judges and others so they would stay loyal the the British Empire.

Boston massacre

Mar 5, 1770

British soldiers fired into a crowd of rioter and killed two people but the colonists said that they killed alot more

Tea Act

May 10, 1773

This act allowed the East India Trading Company to ship tea directly to North America.

committee of correspondence

Sep 27, 1773

these were individual governments that relayed responses to the British actions

Boston tea party

Dec 16, 1773

the colonists dumped boat loads of tea into the boston harbor

Intolerable Acts

Apr 22, 1774

This was Britains way of punishing the colonists for dumping tea into the Boston Harbor

First Continental Congress

Sep 5, 1774

This was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies in response to the intolerable acts.

1st continental congress

Oct 14, 1774

This was a declaration stating the list of wrong doing and taxes imposed in the colonists.

Lexington and Concord

Apr 19, 1775

the first battle of the revolutionary war.

Bunker Hill

Jun 17, 1775

This was a battle fought during the revolutionary was between the Colonies and Britain.

Appeal to reason rejected (Olive branch Petition)

Jul 5, 1775

this was a letter to king George trying to convince him the they don't need to go to war.

Declaratory Act

Jan 1, 1776

This act modified the sugar act.

Common Sense

Jan 10, 1776

Common sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine to persuade colonists to separate from Britain.

Declaration of Independence

Jul 4, 1776

This was a formal declaration of the independence of the 13 colonies from Britain.