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The first taxe to be made on the colonies
The Stamp Act was the tax on printed items was the first direct tax on the colonists. It added a fee to printed materials such as legal documents and newspapers. -
The Quartering Act
Following the French and Indian War, Britain maintained a standing army in the colonies. The Quartering Act required colonial assemblies to house and provision soldiers -
The Birth of liberty
Those who opposed the British taxes called themselves “Patriots” and the Sons of Liberty was born with Sam Adams as its leader. The Sons of Liberty was a secret organization that was created in the Thirteen American Colonies to advance the rights of the European colonists and to fight taxation by the British government. It played a major role in most colonies in battling the Stamp Act in 1765. -
Suger pays
Although it reduced the tax on molasses, the Sugar Act was strictly enforced, so colonist ended up paying more taxes. -
The Sons Of Liberty's first attack
Aug 13th, 1765 A Mob led by the Sons of Liberty tore down the office and damaged the house of the stamp collector. -
British taxes began to become out of hand
The Declaratory Act repealed the Stamp Act but asserted Parliament’s right to rule the colonies as saw fit. -
The disapproval of taxes
Import taxes on a variety of goods were collected to support royal officials in the colonies, removing the responsibility from the colonial assemblies. The Townshend Acts were so unpopular that all the taxes were repealed, except the one on tea. -
Boston massacre
A group of colonist hurled snowballs and rocks at British soldiers guarding the Customs House. The soldiers fired into the crowd, killing five colonists. -
The Tea Act
The Tea Act of 1773 angered colonists because it favored a British company over Colonial merchants. Explanation: The Tea Act was a law promulgated by the British Parliament in May 1773 that allowed the British East India Company to sell its tea in the Thirteen Colonies of North America without paying taxes. -
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, 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 -
The Act of Intolerance
The Intolerable Act officially called the Coercive Acts, these laws were meant to force Massachusetts to pay for the tea destroyed in the Boston Tea Party. The laws closed Boston Harbor and forced colonists to house British soldiers in their homes. -
The First Continental Congress meets. Agree to boycott British goods.
A plan was proposed to create a Union of Great Britain and the Colonies, but the delegates rejected it. They ultimately agreed to impose an economic boycott on British trade, and they drew up a Petition to the King pleading for redress of their grievances and repeal of the Intolerable Acts. -
THE FAILED TREATY
Congress sends an “Olive Branch” to King George III. He rejected the petition and sent more troops to Boston. -
The famous words of Patrick Henry
Patrick Henry, gives his most famous speech, in the House of Burgesses. “Give me Liberty or give me Death” -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were fought on April 19, 1775 in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge. -
Georg gits a promotion
Second Continental Congress meets. Congress names George Washington commander of Continental Army -
The Battle of Bunker Hill
during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War. The battle is named after Bunker Hill in Charlestown, Massachusetts, which was peripherally involved in the battle. -
Common Sense
Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense -
Independence is the only option
Drafted by Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration of Independence was approved. -
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Baron Von Steuben trains the Continental Army at Valley Forge, Penn.
The French minister of war recommended von Steuben to Benjamin Franklin as a resource to the Continental Army in 1777. Franklin in turn passed on word of Steuben's availability to George Washington, and by February 23, 1778, he was among the desperate Continentals camped at Valley Forge. -
Patriots win in Saratoga
On this day in history in 1777, the Americans defeated the British at the Battle of Saratoga. After the battle the , British General John Burgoyne surrenders 5,000 British and Hessian troops to the Patriot General Horatio Gates at Saratoga, in New York. -
France signs an alliance with the United States.
The Treaty of Alliance with France or Franco-American Treaty was a defensive alliance between France and the United States of America, formed in the midst of the American Revolutionary War, which promised mutual military support in case fighting should break out between French and British forces, as the result of signing the previously concluded Treaty of Amity and Commerce. -
The loss of Charlestown
General Clinton captures 3000 Patriot soldiers as he takes Charlestown, South Carolina. -
Cornwallis's surrender
General Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown. -
The treaty has been signed
Treaty of Paris signed.
