Timeline

By nihna_bieber
  • 1765 BCE

    Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    A law that made the colonists pay taxes on paper.

  • Sugar and Molasses

    Sugar and Molasses
    An act put taxes on all imported sugar

  • Currency Act

    Currency Act
    An act that didn't let colonists use their own money, so they had to use British currency.

  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act
    An act that made the colonists let the military live in their homes.

  • Townshend

    Townshend
    An act that taxed all British goods such as tea.

  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    Five people died in this event, it was caused by the problems between Britain and the colonists.

  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    The colonists dresses up as Native Americans to dump the tea into the Boston harbor because of the new laws.

  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts
    Laws that punished the colonists for the Boston Tea Party.

  • First Congressional Congress

    First Congressional Congress
    A meeting about making the colonies a whole.

  • Lexington/Concord

    Lexington/Concord
    The British were sent to collect gunpowder from Concord and capture Sam Adams and John Hancock from Lexington.