Revolutionary War Timeline

  • Sugar and Molasses Act

    Sugar and Molasses Act
    The Sugar Molasses Act is a law that is imposed a tax on sugar, molasses and rum.
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    The Stamp was basically an act where the British put a tax on American colonies.
  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763
    A proclamation declared by the British crown at the end of the French and Indian war to stop the Native Americans.
  • Currency Act

    Currency Act
    The Currency Act was a British law. It’s the act that controlled paper money.
  • Quartering Act of 1765

    Quartering Act of 1765
    The Quartering Act is a name given to the American colonies to give British any supplies needed.
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    The Boston Massacre was an incident where British soldiers split up in the city and aimed at a rioting mob killing 5 American civilians.
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    A group of colonists from Massachusetts disguised themselves as Mohawk Indians and boarded British tea ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into the water.
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts
    These​ ​Intolerable​ ​Acts​ ​were British​ ​Laws​ ​passed​ ​down​ ​by​ ​the legislature​ ​of​ ​Great​ ​Britain.
  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress
    The First Continental Congress was a meet up of representatives from the thirteen colonies.
  • Lexington/Concord

    Lexington/Concord
    A military conflict against the Kingdom of Great Britain and the thirteen colonies of North America.