Road to Revolution Timeline

French and Indian war

May 28, 1756

http://www.hwww.history.com/topics/french-and-indian-war The war started in the year 1756 and ended 1763.But during those times there were alot of tragic events like a lot of indians and americans that have did.

Proclamation of 1763

Oct 7, 1763

http://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/1763-proclamation-of In 1763, at the end of the French and Indian War, the British issued a proclamation,mainly intended to conciliate the Indians by checking the encroachment of settlers on their lands. In the centuries since the proclamation, it has become one of the cornerstones of Native American law in the United States and Canada.

Stamp Act

Mar 22, 1765

http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/stamp-act The Stamp Act of 1765 was the first internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British government.

Townshend Acts

Jun 29, 1767

http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/townshend-acts A series of measures introduced into the English Parliament by Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshend in 1767, the Townshend Acts imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies.

Boston Massacre

Mar 5, 1770

http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/massacre.htmThe Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers.

Tea Act

Dec 16, 1773

http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/tea-act The Tea Act of 1773 was one of several measures imposed on the American colonists by the heavily indebted British government in the decade leading up to the American Revolutionary War (1775-83).

Boston Tea Party

Dec 16, 1773

http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/boston-tea-party This famed act of American colonial defiance served as a protest against taxation. Seeking to boost the troubled East India Company, British Parliament adjusted import duties with the passage of the Tea Act in 1773.

Intolerable Acts

Mar 24, 1774

http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/intolerable.htm The government spent immense sums of money on troops and equipment in an attempt to subjugate Massachusetts. British merchants had lost huge sums of money on looted, spoiled, and destroyed goods shipped to the colonies.

Lexington and Concord

Apr 19, 1775

http://www.ushistory.org/us/11c.aspDuring the wee hours of April 19, 1775, he would send out regiments of British soldiers quartered in Boston. Their destinations were Lexington, where they would capture Colonial leaders Sam Adams and John Hancock, then Concord, where they would seize gunpowder.

The Declaration of Independence

Jul 4, 1776

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Continental Congress meeting at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.