Timeline of Revolutionary Events

By ogaldonez

  • Sugar Act

    Britain puts a tariff on Sugar and Molasses.

  • Currency Act

    Regulated paper money in the colonies.

  • Stamp Act

    The first direct tax on colonists.

  • Townshend Acts

    Imposed duties on imported goods from Britain.

  • Boston Massacre

    British soldiers fire upon a hostile colonial crowd.

  • Tea Act

    British law that gave the East India Company special concessions in the colonial tea business and shuts out colonial tea merchants

  • Boston Tea Party

    The Sons of Liberty disguise themselves as Mohawk Indians and dumped 8,000 pounds of East India Company's tea into the Boston Harbor in response to the Tea Act

  • Quartering Act

    authorized British commanders to house soldiers in vacant private homes and other buildings

  • Intolerable Acts

    Also known as the Coercive Acts, these Acts were passed by Parliament due to being pressured by King George III,

  • 1st Continental Congress meets

    John and Sam Adams, George Washington, and other chosen delegates come together. Created a declaration of colonial rights.

  • Lexington and Concord

    Lexington - British |
    Concord - America