important events timeline to decrelation of independence

By kingston feigum

  • French and Indian war

    strained relations through American colonies and britian

  • proclamation of 1763

    bans colonists from settling beyond applachain mountains

  • sugar act

    imposed taxes on sugar and other goods

  • stamp act

    required colonists to purchase a stamp for every piece of paper they used

  • quartering act

    required colonists to house and supply British soliders

  • stamp act congress

    protest against stamp act marking a significant step

  • declaratory act

    repealing the stamp act, britain passed this act asserting its right to tax and make decisions for the American colonies

  • Townshend acts

    imposed duties on imported goods like tea, glass, and paper leading to boycotts and more tensions

  • Boston massacre

    British killed five colonists during confrontation

  • tea act

    This act gave British east India

  • intolerable acts

    response to the Boston tea party

  • Boston tea party

    protest of the tea act, colonists disguised as native Americans and dumped a shipment of tea into the harbor

  • first continental conrgress

    12 colonies met to discuss a response to the intolerable acts and to organize a boycott

  • Lexington and concord

    first battles of revolutionary war

  • second continental congress

    managed colonial war effort and moves toward indepence

  • battle of bunker hill

    early and significant battle

  • olive branch petition

    continentals congress's last chance to avoid war with Britain which was rejected by king george III

  • common sense

    advocating for independence from Britain

  • declaration of independence

    document that declared the colonies independence from britain

  • battle of saratoga

    American forces defeated the British leading to france entering the war as an ally