Timeline by Reese Barnett

French and Indian war

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For nine years, from 1754–1763, Britain spent a large amount of money fighting

the French and Indian War, a war with France that began over control of the land

in the Ohio River valley and soon spread over much of the globe.

Stamp Act Congress

2600900 — 2024-11-04 13:13:01 UTC

The Stamp Act Congress passed a Declaration of Rights. Which claimed that American colonists were equal to all other British citizens, protested taxation without representation, without colonial representation in Parliament, Parliament could not tax colonists.

Stamp Act Passed

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The British had a large army in North America as a consequence. On 22 March 1765, the British Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which sought to raise money to pay for this army through a tax on all legal and official papers and publications circulating in the colonies.

Boston Massacre

2600900 — 2024-11-04 13:15:55 UTC

On March 5, 1770, British soldiers shot into a crowd of rowdy colonists in front of the Custom House on King Street, killing five and wounding six.

Declaratory act Passed

2600900 — 2024-11-04 13:16:50 UTC

March 18, 1766

Townshend Acts Passed

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Was passed on June 29, 1767

To help pay the expenses involved in governing the American colonies, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts, which initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea.

Boston Tea party

2600900 — 2024-11-04 13:44:35 UTC

On the night of December 16, 1773, dozens of disguised men, some as Indigenous Americans, boarded the three East India Company ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor

Townshend acts Repealed

2600900 — 2024-11-04 13:45:59 UTC

In March 1770, most of the taxes from the Townshend Acts were repealed by Parliament under Frederick, Lord North. However, the import duty on tea was retained in order to demonstrate to the colonists that Parliament held the sovereign authority to tax its colonies

Coercive Acts passed

2600900 — 2024-11-04 13:46:56 UTC

The Coercive Acts of 1774, known as the Intolerable Acts in the American colonies, were a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party.

First continental Congress

2600900 — 2024-11-04 13:47:49 UTC

empowered delegates to attend a Continental Congress which would set terms for a boycott. The colony of Connecticut was the first to respond. The Congress first met in Philadelphia on September 5, 1774, with delegates from each of the 13 colonies except Georgia.

Second Continental Congress

2600900 — 2024-11-04 13:48:49 UTC

The Second Continental Congress was the late 18th-century meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that united in support of the American Revolution and the Revolutionary War, which established American independence from the British Empire

Declaration of Independence Signed

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The Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. It was engrossed on parchment and on August 2, 1776, delegates began signing it.

Stamp Act repealed

2600900 — 2024-11-04 13:50:44 UTC

The Stamp Act became one of the most controversial laws ever passed by Parliament, and after several months of protests and boycotts which damaged British trade, it was repealed on 18 March 1766.

Tea Act Passed

2600900 — 2024-11-04 13:52:08 UTC

he Catalyst of the Boston Tea Party. The Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies.

Revolutionary war begins

2600900 — 2024-11-04 13:53:10 UTC

The first shots of the Revolutionary War are fired at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts. The news of the bloodshed rockets along the eastern seaboard, and thousands of volunteers converge—called "Minute Men" April 19, 1775