Causes of the American Revolutionary War Timeline
Tea Act (1773)
Battle of Lexington and Concord (1775)
Declaratory Act (1766)
Stamp Act (1765)
- The final straw in a series of unpopular policies and taxes imposed by Britain on American colonists.
- The first military engagement of the American Revolutionary War
- Accompanied the repeat of the Stamp Act and the changing and lessening of the Sugar Act
- Imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every pieve of printed paper they used.
- Was viewed as a dict attempy by England to raise money in the colonies without approval.
2nd Continental Congress (1775)
Boston Tea Party (1773)
1st Continental Congress (1774)
Battle of Bunker Hill (1775)
Boston Massacre (1770)
French and Indian War (1754)
Committees of Correspondence (1773)
Sugar Act (1764)
Quartering Act (1765)
- A convention of delegates from the 13 colonies.
- Soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun.
- A meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies.
- This was the first effort of American colonies to unite under a common cause towards succession from the British Crown.
- Early in the Revolutionary War, the British defeated the Americans, despite their loss, the colonial forces inflicted significant casualties against Britain.
- A street fight between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of Britain soldiers.
- Serveral colonists were killed.
- Direct protest by colonists in Boston against the Tea Tax that had been imposed by the British government.
- This arose from the resentment of Boston colonists towards the British
- Consisted of a group of leading patriots providing leadership and communication networks amongst the colonists at town and colonial level
- At first, it was temporary buy it had evolved into a permanent thing.
- A tax on sugar and molasses imported into the colonies
- The effect on the colonists was the economic impact as well as the constitutional issue of taxation without representation
- A minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the local government of the American Colonies, to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing.
- The North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War.
- The War began in 1954 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763.
Townshend Act (1767)
Coercive Acts/ Intolerable Acts (1774)
Battle of Yorktown (1781)
Declaration of Independence (1776)
Treaty of Paris (1783)
The Proclamation Line of 1763
Thomas Paines's Common Sense (1776)
- Series of laws which set new import taxes on British goods and used revenues to maintain British troops in America.
- Also to pay the salaries of some Royal officials who were appointed to work in the American colonies
- A series of punitive laws passed by British Parliament after the Boston Tea Party.
- British Parliament hoped these acts would stop resentment towards Britain
- A decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops and French Army
- Negotiated between the United States and Great Britain, ended the Revolutionary War and recognized American Independence
- The statement adopted by the continental congress meeting at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 4, 1776, which said that the 13 colonies are independent sovereign states
- This proclamation forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.
- Changed the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy.
- The plain language that Paine used spoke to the common people of America, and was the first work to openly ask for independence