The American Revolution

  • Start of French and Indian War

  • Period: to

    Revolution

  • End of French and Indian War

  • The Sugar Act

  • The Stamp Act

  • Townshend Acts

  • The Boston Massacre

  • The Boston Tea Party

  • The First Continental Congress

  • The Rides of Paul Rivere & William Dawes

  • The Battles of Lexington & Concord

  • Second Continental Congress

  • Battle of Bunker Hill

  • Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" published

  • Declaration of Independence signed

  • Burgoyne surrenders to General Gates at Saratoga

  • Articles of Confederation adopted

  • Cornwallis surrounded; surrenders at Yorktown

  • Treaty of Paris