war timeline

  • sugar act

    sugar act
    King George III passed a tax on sugar, molasses, and other sweet products.
  • Stamp act

    Stamp act
    King Gearge III put a tax on all documented items.
  • townshend act

    townshend act
    King George III put a tax on cider, a popular drink among colonist
  • boston massecre

    boston massecre
    English soldiers opened random fire into the colonist
  • boston tea party

    boston tea party
    Bostonians dressed like indians and borded english ships to through the tea into the ocean
  • intolerable act

  • Lexington and concord battle

    Lexington and concord was one of the first fields that the war was fought in.
  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    Occasionally bunker hill is referd to as the "Battle of Breeds Hill"
    General Warren died the the Battle of Bunker Hill.
  • common sense

    common sense
    The document Thomas Paine wrote
  • Declaration of Independence

    The Declaration of Independence was drafted by Thomas Jefferson. It simbolized independence in America during the war of independence
  • Battle of Trenton

  • Battle odf Ticonderoga

    Ticonderoga was fought in 1777 for the independence of America