the american revolution timeline

  • French-Indian War (1756-1763)

    French-Indian War (1756-1763)
    it began in 1754 and ended with the treaty of paris in 1763 it was a war between great britain and england. england won the war but had to pay tax so england had to tax
  • Navigation Acts (1763)

    Navigation Acts (1763)
    a series of laws passed by the parliment to restrict colonial trade. based on the economic policy called mertepalizm
  • stamp act

    stamp act
    an act of the British Parliament in 1765 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents
  • quartering act

    quartering act
    an act the requires colonial authorities to provide food, drink, quarters, fuel, and transportation to British forces stationed in their towns or villages.
  • Townshend Acts

    Townshend Acts
    it was a series of measures passed by the british parliament that taxed goods imported to the american colonies.
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    it was a deadly riot that occurred on march 5th 1770, on king street in boston
  • Boston tea party

    Boston tea party
    The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts
    unitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British Government.
  • Olive Branch Petition

    Olive Branch Petition
    adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 5, 1775, and signed on July 8 in a final attempt to avoid war between Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies in America.
  • Battle of Lexington & Concord

    Battle of Lexington & Concord
    The battles were fought on April 19, 1775 in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge. They marked the outbreak of armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in America.
  • second continental congress

    second continental congress
    was a meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in America that united in the American Revolutionary War.
  • Common Sense

    Common Sense
    a 47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies.
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence
    is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776. Enacted during the American Revolution
  • articles of confederation

    articles of confederation
    The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union was an agreement among the 13 original states of the United States of America that served as its first frame of government.
  • Daniel Shays’ Rebellion

    Daniel Shays’ Rebellion
    high taxes and stringent economic conditions. ... In September 1786 Daniel Shays and other local leaders led several hundred men in forcing the Supreme Court
  • Constitutional Convention

    Constitutional Convention
    known as the Federal Convention, the Philadelphia Convention, or the Grand Convention at Philadelphia. Nor did most of the delegates arrive intending to draft a new constitution.