Timeline and Terms

Events

American assemblies dissolved
Battle of Golden Hill
Battles of Lexington and Concord
Boston Massacre
Boston Massacre trials
Boston Stamp Act uprising
Boston Tea Party
British shocked by Boston Tea Party
British troops in Boston
Burning of the Gaspee
Circular letter adopted in Massachusetts
Colonial condemnation of Tea Act
Common Sense
Congress voted for independence
Continental Association
Currency Act
Declaration of Independence
Declaration of Rights and Grievances
First provincial congress in America
Gage’s report on colonies’ defiance
House of Burgesses dissolved
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
King George III’s address to Parliament
Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania
Meeting of First Continental Congress
Minutemen established
New England Restraining Act
Patrick Henry accused of treason
Peace of Paris
Phillis Wheatley emancipated
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
Proclamation of 1763
Quartering Act of 1765
Quartering Act of 1774
Quebec Act
Revere’s “Midnight Ride”
Seizure of arms at Newport
Slave trade halted as anti-British protest
Solemn League and Covenant
Sons of Liberty founded
Stamp Act
Stamp Act Congress met
Stamp Act protests in New York
Stamp Act repealed; Declaratory Act passed
Stamp Act resistance in Georgia
Suffolk Resolves
Sugar Act
Tea Act
The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved
Townshend Acts
Townshend duties repealed
Virginia Resolves
Washington assumed command of Continental Army

People

Abigail Adams
Benjamin Franklin
Charles Townshend
Charles Watson-Wentworth
Christopher Gadsden
Crispus Attucks
Elbridge Gerry
George Grenville
George III
George Mason
George Washington
Gouverneur Morris
Henry Laurens
James Madison
John Adams
John Dickinson
John Jay
Joseph Warren
Lord Dunmore
Mary Katherine Goddard
Patrick Henry
Paul Revere
Phillis Wheatley
Richard Henry Lee
Robert Morris
Samuel Adams
Thomas Gage
Thomas Hutchinson
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Paine
Thomas Young
William Pitt

Places

Boston
Lexington
Philadelphia

Organizations

Committees of Correspondence
First Committee of Correspondence
First Continental Congress
House of Burgesses
loyalists
Second Continental Congress
Sons of Liberty
Stamp Act Congress