Colonial America Timeline

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Colonial Timeline



1763: Great Britain

issues the

Proclamation of 1763

prohibiting settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains. The proclamation is greatly resented in Virginia. 

1765: Great Britain

imposes the

Stamp Act

, taxing the American colonies.

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 Patrick Henry challenges Great Britain's right to impose the tax.  In New York, delegates draw up a

Declaration of Rights and Grievances

.

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

1766:

Parliament withdraws the Stamp Act but passes the

Declaratory Act

, which give Great Britain's the right to pass laws governing the American colonies.



1767: Townshend Duties

taxes imports of tea, glass, paper, lead, and paint in the American colonies.

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

1770:

British troops fire into a crowd of demonstrators in Boston in an event that becomes known as the

"Boston Massacre."

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 Parliament repeals the Townshend Duties, except for the tax on tea. 

1772:

The Boston Assembly demands the rights of the colonies and threatens secession from Great Britain .

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 Samuel Adams forms a committee for action against Great Britain. 

1773:

the British Parliament passes

Tea Act

.

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 The Boston Tea Party takes place in Boston, Massachusetts. A party of nearly 50 men disguised as

Indians

, led by

Samuel Adams

, boards ships, breaks open 343 chests of tea, and empties them into Boston Harbor.

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

1775:

Patrick Henry makes his "Give me liberty or give me death" speech in Richmond.

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 Paul Revere rides to Lexington, Massachusetts.

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 The first battles of the American Revolution take place in Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts.

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 The Americans are defeated at

Bunker Hill

. 

King George III

declares the American colonies in rebellion.  Great Britain hires 29,000

German (Hessian) soldiers

for the war in North America.

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

1776:

The Second Continental Congress passes the

American Declaration of Independence

.

Liberty!

 A group of men met in Philadelphia to declare independence from the mother country.  On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence.

Signers:

•George Washington did not sign the Declaration of Independence because in July 1776 he was in New York preparing to defend Manhattan against the British.

Colonial American Lesson Plans

Choosing Revolution

 Colonial Reaction to the Stamp Act  Eighteenth-Century and Twentieth-Century Forms of Resistance  A Family disrupted--the Randolph Family and the Coming American Revolution  Website Resource: Daily Life of 13 Colonies  Agriculture and Education in Colonial America (slide show)

Colonial America Lesson Plans

               Acrimony in Bruton Parish Church Attitudes and Behaviors Regarding Slavery in the Colonial Period A Colonial Christmas in Williamsburg Colonial Home Remedies Don't Fence Me In Eighteenth-Century Music and Dance Gardening in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg Getting Into History: Visiting Museums - a Shared Experience History Comes Alive in the Graveyard Mathematics with a Mob Cap Predicting Weather in the Eighteenth Century Signs of the Times Travel in the 18th Century The Trial of Abigail Briggs The Two Williamsburgs

The United States’ road to independence was not an easy one.