20 Events

  • 7 Year War

    The Seven Years' War was when the settlers fought the natives. There were many names for this war, and this is just one of them.
  • The Proclamation Line

    It was a boundary set by the British to limit the westward expansion
  • First Continental Congress

    A meeting of the 12 delegates of the 13 American colonies that took place in Philadelphia
  • Quartering Act

    It made it so royal governors could buy and build homes for the British soldiers
  • Stamp Act

    The British troops needed money in the Seven Years War so it required the colonists to pay tax for them
  • Boston Massacre

    British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists killing five people
  • Boston Tea Party

    Dozens of men dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor
  • Tea Act

    The British taxed the tea sales on the Americans
  • Lexington and Concord

    It marked the first major engagement of the American Revolutionary War
  • Bunker Hill

    The showed that they could hp;d their own against the British Army
  • Second Continental Congress

    A meeting of deleagates from the thirteen colonies that took place in Pennsylvania
  • Declaration Of Independence

    A document of the United States that was adopted by the Coninental Congress
  • Common Sense Pamphlet

    It helped sway the thirteen colonies toward independence
  • Battle of Saratoga

    It was a series of battles fought in New York
  • French Alliance

    The French Alliance was France's military support of the revolutionary government in America
  • Valley Forge

    It is the site of Continental Armys winter encampment during the War
  • Yorktown

    The site of the final battle of the American Revolution
  • Treaty of Paris

    Ending the American Revolutionary War and establishing the United States as an independent nation
  • American Revolution

    This led to the creation of the United States of America
  • French Revolution

    A period of political and social change in France