Unit 2 Timeline

By CH1867

  • French and Indian War

    1. It was one of the series of wars between the British and French.
    2. It took place from 1754 - 1763
    3. Native Americans joined in the battle against the British because they were afraid the British would take over their land.
    4. As a result of the war, British began taxing the colonists to pay for the war.

  • Proclamation of 1763

    1. This Proclamation of 1763 closed lands north and west of the Appalachian Mountains to settlement.
    2. It was to stop the conflicts between the Native Americans and the colonists due to the French and Indian War.

  • Sugar Act

    1. The goal of the act was to raise revenue to help defray the military costs of protecting the American colonies.
    2. It also was to discourage colonial merchants and manufacturers from smuggling non-British goods to avoid taxes imposed by Parliament.
    3. Protests against the Sugar Act led to boycotts of some British luxury goods, which did boost local manufacturing in some instances.

  • Stamp Act

    1. It was a tax on all paper documents in the colonies.
    2. Parlament repealed the Stamp Act in 1766
    3. The issues of taxation and representation raised by it, caused the colonists to rise in rebellion against the British.

  • Quartering Act

    1. It was to require colonist to house British soldiers in barraks provided by the colonies.
    2. New York colonial assembly disliked being commanded to provide quarter for British troops, in result parlement passed the Restraining Act.

  • Writs of Assistance

    1. It was to autherize officers to conduct general searches of premises for contraband.
    2. It was first introduced in Massachusetts in 1751.
    3. The powerful new court orders enabled officials to inspect not only shops and warehouses, but also private homes.

  • Townshed Acts

    1. It was taxes on glass, oil, paper, tea, etc.
    2. Britain eventually repealed all taxes except for one on tea.
    3. The Townshend Acts were a series of measures introduced into Parliament.

  • Boston Massacre

    1. Crispus Attucks, an African American, was the first to fall in the shoting.
    2. The soldiers became enraged after one of them had been hit, and they fired into the crowd, even though they were under orders not to fire.
    3. Conflicts between the British and the colonists had been on the rise because the British government had been trying to increase control over the colonies and raise taxes at the same time.

  • Tea Act

    1. It was a tax on tea.
    2. The British government granted the company a monopoly on the importation and sale of tea in the colonies.
    3. It resulted in the Boston Tea Party.

  • Boston Tea Party

    1. Colonist would dress up as Native Americans and dumped loads of tea off the East Indian Company ships.
    2. Seized 342 chests of tea in a midnight raid on three tea ships.
    3. It took place when a group of Massachusetts Patriots, protesting the monopoly on American tea importation.

  • Intoerable Acts

    1. The British reacted to the Boston Tea Party with what the colonies called the "Intolerable Acts."
    2. The British closed the Boston Harbor pending the people of Boston paying for the lost tea, and paying the required tax.
    3. The Intolerable Acts united the colonies against Britain.

  • 1st Continental Congress 1774

    1. All of the colonies except Geoigia sent delegates, which were elected by the people.
    2. The fisrt few weeks were in discussion and debate
    3. The colonies presented they were united in a determination to show a combined authority of Great Britian.

  • Lexington

    1. British troops were ferried across the Boston Harbor to start their march on Lexington.
    2. Lexington was were the first shots were fired
    3. British General Thomas Gage sent 700 soldiers to destroy guns and ammunition.

  • Concord

    1. Samuel Prescott alerted colonist about the British forces shortly after midnight
    2. British had lost 250 men in battle
    3. British officer Colonal Smith, led the march to Concord.

  • 2nd Continental Congress

    1. The 13 colonie delegates had gathered in Philadelphia to discuss their next steps.
    2. It established the militia as the Continental Army to represent the thirteen states.
    3. George Washington was elected commander in chief of the Continental Army.

  • Ft. Ticonderoga

    1. It servered as a key point of access to both Canada and the Hudson River Valley during the French and Indian War.
    2. It was the first American victory of the Revolutionary War.
    3. British forces had unsuccessfully attaked the fort.

  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    1. Patriots were fortfying 2 hills looking over the Boston Harbor
    2. Famous quote wasspoken "Dont shoot untill you see the whites of their eyes.".
    3. The British had won the war but had lost over 1,000 soldiers.

  • Common Sense

    1. The author of it was Thomas Paine
    2. It increased the Colonial public support for the American Revolution
    3. It had helped Paine's arguments to persuade colonist to fight for independence.

  • Declaration of Independence

    1. It was drafted by Thomas Jefferson.
    2. Colonist were fighting Great Britian for their independence.
    3. It had a long list of grievances such as taxation without representation.

  • Battle of New York

    1. It was the British against the Continental Army
    2. British troops marched north-east along the line of high ground held by the Americans to begin their attack.
    3. Washington was forced to conduct a fighting withdrawal to the Delaware River where he wintered.

  • Battle of Trenton

    1. Defeated 800 Hessions
    2. George Washongton and the Contienintal Army crossed the frozen Delaware River
    3. Washington knew that there was a group of British and Hessions located in Trenton.

  • Battle of Princeton

    1. After Washington won the battle of Trenton, he soon led his troops for Princeton
    2. Defeated over 300 British troops in New Jersey
    3. Washington, once again had defeted the British.

  • Battle of Saratoga

    1. 5,895 British and Hessions had surrendered.
    2. Burgoyne had presented the "Divid and Conquer" strategy.
    3. America won the battle in October 1777

  • Winter at Valley Forge

    1. George Washington's Continental Army moved south from New Jersey to defend the capital of Philadelphia.
    2. For his winter encampment, Washington selected Valley Forge.
    3. Though the winter at Valley Forge had been trying for both the men and the leadership, the Continental Army emerged as a stronger fighting force.

  • Battle of Yorktown

    1. George Washington commanded a force of 17,000 French and Continental troops.
    2. Washington ordered Marquis de Lafayette and an American army of 5,000 troops to block Cornwallis' escape from Yorktown.
    3. Cornwallis surrendered to Washington in the field at Yorktown on October 17, 1781, ending the battle.

  • Treaty of Paris

    1. It had ended the revolution
    2. It reconized the United States as an independent nation
    3. The Treaty of Paris was signed on September 3, 1782.