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The American Revolution _ A timeline - Faith McCorkle

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    The American Revolution timleine

  • End of the Seven Years War - The French and Indian war

    End of the Seven Years War - The French and Indian war
    The treaty of Paris ends the Seven Years of war; also known as the French and Indian war. France here surrenders all North American Possessions east of the Mississippi to Britain. Ending a source of insecurity for British colonists along the Atlantic coast.
  • Passage of the Stamp Act

    Passage of the Stamp Act
    Britain passes the stamp Act, imposing tax onto legal documentations, newspapers, and even playing cards. This is the first direct attack on American continents and its hostility resisted.
  • Townshend Act

    Townshend Act
    A series of four acts were passed known as the Townshend acts. They were passed by British parliament in attempt to
    assert what it is considered to be the historic right in able to exert authority over the colonies over the act of suspension to exert revenue deities.
  • British Troops Occupy Boston

    British Troops Occupy Boston
    British Troops land in Boston to explain the Townshend duties and Camp down on Local Radicals.
  • Boston Massa cure

    Boston Massa cure
    In Boston a small British army detachment that was threatened by mob harassment creating open fire killing five people.
  • Boston Teaparty

    Boston Teaparty
    Protesting both tax on tea, and precited monopoly of the East Asian Company, a party known as the Mohawk people boarded ships at archer and dumped 10,000 pounds worth of tea into the harbor.
  • Intolerable acts

    Intolerable acts
    In relation for colonial resistance to British rule during the winter of 1773-74 the British parliament enacted the measurements known as the intolerable acts which later became the justification for convening the first continental congress of 1774. March- June of 1774
  • First Colonial Congress Convenes September 5,1774

    First Colonial Congress  Convenes September 5,1774
    Called by the Committees of Correspondence in response to the Intolerable Acts. The first continental congress convened and Philadelphia. Fifty six delegates represented all colonies exept Georgia.
  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    Battle of Bunker Hill
    One The first Battles of the American Revolution, The Battles name was after the Bunker Hill in Charlestown. Americans concord a defense position, as the British won into he end.
  • Battles of Saratonga

    Battles of Saratonga
    A turning Point in the Revolutionary war, the Climax of the Saratoga campaign, it ended in the British trying to control the Hudson river valley but America winning.
  • Siege of Yorktown

    Siege of Yorktown
    Also known as the battle of Yorktown, the French representation of surrender at Yorktown, centered in Virginia. They surrendered against America.