The Long Road To Independence

By alexhschultz33

  • 1764

    1764
    Although it reduced tax on moslasses, the sugar act was strictly enforced, so colonist ended up paying more taxes.

  • 1765

    1765
    Those who opposed Britain called themselves patriots and the sons of liberty where born and lead by Samuel Adams.

  • 1765

    1765
    The stamp act was a tax on printed items was the first direct tax on the colonist. It added a fee to printed materiel's such as legal documents and newspapers.

  • 1765

    1765
    Following the french and Indian war, Britain maintained a standing army in the colonies. The Quartering Act required colonial assemblies to house and provision soldiers.

  • 1765

    Sons of Liberty took down an office and damaged the house of a stamp collector.

  • 1766

    The Declatory Act was passed that repealed the stamp act but asserted parliament rights to rule the colonies as they see fit.

  • 1767

    The Townsend Acts where a bunch of taxes on everything imported but it was so unpopular that they removed it off of everything except tea.

  • 1770

    1770
    A group of colonist threw snowballs/rocks at some of the soldiers and the soldiers fired into the crowd leaving 5 colonist dead.

  • 1773

    1773
    The Tea Act was created although it lowered the price on tea it treated the business of colonial importers

  • 1773

    1773
    Boston patriots dressed up as indians and dumped 3 ships worth of tea into the boston river later this event is known as the boston tea party.

  • 1774

    The Intolerable Act meant the colonist had to pay for the tea they dumped and they had to house a British Soldier
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    1775

    March- "Give me liberty or Give me Death"
    April- Battle of Lexington and Concord
    May-Second Continental congress meets
    June- Battle of Bunker Hill
    July- Colonist sends the "olive branch"
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    1776

    January- Thomas Paine publishes common sense
    July- Thomas Jefferson got the Declaration of Independence approved
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    1777-1778

    October- Colonist win Saratoga
    February- France signs an alliance with the colonies

  • 1780

    1780
    General Clinton captures 3000 patriot soldiers and takes them to Charleston, South Carolina

  • 1781

    1781
    General Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown