The american revolution timeline by Katherine Wile

French and Indian War (1754)

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Started with conflicted claims between Great Britain and France

Proclamation of 1763 (1763)

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A document that states all colonists that lived west of the App. Mt. had to migrate to make peace with the Native Americans, this made colonists mad and they revolted.

The sugar act (1764)

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Parliament, desiring revenue from its North American colonies, passed the first law specifically aimed at raising colonial money for the Crown. The act increased duties on non-British goods shipped to the colonies.

The stamp act (1765)

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British Parliament finally passed the Stamp Act or Duties in American Colonies Act. It required colonists to pay taxes on every page of printed paper they used. The tax also included fees for playing cards, dice, and newspapers.

The Quartering act (1765)

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Parliament's attempt to answer the question of where and how British soldiers would be quartered in the American colonies. In the act, called the American Mutiny Act, Parliament stated that the government could not force private citizens to house British soldiers against their will.

Declaratory act (1766)

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George III approved Parliament's repeal of the Stamp Act and its passage of the Declaratory Act.

The Townshend act (1767)

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Parliament passes the Townshend Acts. They bear the name of Charles Townshend, Chancellor of the Exchequer, who is—as the chief treasurer of the British Empire—in charge of economic and financial matters.

The Boston massacre (1770)

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British sentries guarding the Boston Customs House shot into a crowd of civilians, killing three men and injuring eight, two of them mortally.

The Tea Act and the Boston Tea Party (1773)

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at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.y

The Intolerable acts

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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.

The first continental congress

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Delegates from twelve of Britain's thirteen American colonies met to discuss America's future under growing British aggression.

Thomas Paine's "Common Sense"

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Thomas Paine's Common Sense became the first viral mass communications event in America.

The Declaration of Independence signed

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that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.