The Road To Independence

By jenah

  • George The 3rd Becomes KIng

  • The Stamp Act

    Direct internal tax and the things they legal documents, newspaper, dice etc.

  • Stamp Act meets in New York City

    October 7-25, 1765

  • Parliament Passes the Townshend Acts

    March / June 1767

  • The Boston Massacre

    Violence between British Soldiers and American Colonist.

  • Boston Tea Party

    Dumped tea in the harbor in protest of the British Taxes

  • The Intolerable Acts (Coercive)

    4 laws - The Boston Port Act, The Massachusetts Government Act, The Administration of Justice Acts The Quartering Act

  • First Continental Congress Meets in Philadelphia

    September 5 - October 26, 1774

  • The Olive Branch Petition

    To prevent formal war from happening
    (between Great Britain American Colonist)

  • First Shots of the American Revolution

    The Start of the War
    (Lexington Concord)

  • Second Continental Congress Meets in Philadelphia

    (Congress under the Articles of Confederation)
    (May 10, 1775 - March 1, 1781

  • The Adoption of the Declaration of Indepence

    Motivation for wanting Independence

  • The Adoption of the Articles of Confederation

  • British surrender at YorkTown Virginia

  • Treaty of Paris Signed

    (Official Ending of the American Revolution)