Timeline on revolution

By mil118888

  • Proclamation Act

    The intervention in colonial affairs offended the thirteen colonies' claim to the exclusive right to govern lands to their west.

  • The Sugar Act

    Was mainly for the Britched to protect the rum tax on molasses.

  • The Stamp Act

    To lower cost of things parliament required all legal documents, newspapers and pamphlets required to use watermarked.

  • The Quartering Act

    Colonial required to pay for supplies to British garrisons.

  • Declaration of Rights and Grievances

    Document written by the Stamp Act Congress, declared that taxes imposed on British colonists without their formal consent were unconstitutional.

  • Stamp Act Congress

    Representatives from 9 of the 13 colonies demanded the Stamp Act unconstitutional.

  • Stamp Act Repeal

    Declaratory Acts, asserting that the British government had free and total legislative power over the colonies.

  • Declaratory Act

    Parliament repeal of the Stamp Act declares that it has the right to tax colonies

  • Townshend Act

    Tea, glass, lead, paper and paint to help pay for the administration of the colonies that was named after Charles Townshend

  • Boston Massacre

    Lead by troops and Britain's colonial policy. During their march a crowd began harassing a group of soldiers

  • Committee of Correspondence

    Burgesses proposed that each colonial legislature appoint a standing committee for intercolonial correspondence.

  • Tea Act

    Tea from import duties and allowed the Company to sell its tea directly to the colonies.

  • Boston Tea Party

    Tea Acts disguised as Mohawk Indians and East India Company tea into the Boston harbour.

  • 1st Continental Congress

    Colonial delegates meet to organise opposition to the Intolerable Acts

  • Intolerable Acts

    Massachusetts of self-government and judicial independence following the Boston Tea Party, colonies responded with a general boycott of British goods.

  • Lexington and Concord

    First signs of the Revolutionary War between British troops and the Minutemen.

  • Bunker Hill

    First major battle of the War of Independence, cost of 1054 British casualties to the Americans' 367.

  • Appeal to Reason Rejected (aka: Olive BRanch Petition)

    King George III refused to receive the petition written by John Dickinson appealed directly to the king and expressed hope for reconciliation between the colonies and Great Britain.

  • Common Sense

    A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain in the summer of 1776.

  • Declaration of Independence

    Statement adopted by the continental congress meeting at continental congress in philadelphia and pennsylvania July 4, 1776.

  • Treaty of paris

    Ended the 7 year war also known as the French and Indian War in North America.