Revolutionary War Timeline

The Sugar Act caused prices on molasses and other sugar items
to rise.
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The Stamp Act placed new taxes on legal documents such as wills, diplomas, and marriage papers. http://www.landofthebrave.info/images/stamp-act-stamps.jpg

The Townshend Acts said that colonists had to buy paper, glass, led, and tea from English officials.
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A large crowd gathered around a soldier and were harrasing him. Then, a few other soldiers came to his aid and shots were fired. Five colonists were killed.
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Parliament tried to bail out the East India Company. It ended up with the colonists refusing to buy tea. This hurt the colonial tea merchants.
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The Continental Congress was a convention of delegates called together from the Thirteen Colonies that became the governing body of the United States during the American Revolution http://www.sonofthesouth.net/revolutionary-war/political/continental-congress.jpg

The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2iz1Ifayt1I/Ta3ObSP7zgI/AAAAAAAAAdQ/FUyVds1gfE0/s1600/Battle%2Bof%2BLexington%2BConcord.jpg

The Capture of Fort Ticonderoga occurred during the American Revolutionary War on May 10, 1775, when a small force of Green Mountain Boys led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold overcame a small British garrison at the fort and looted the personal belongings of the garrison. http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/image_content_width/hash/b4/71/b471991cba0b71090d2742c284dd5d7c.jpg

The Battle of Bunker Hill took place on June 17, 1775, mostly on and around Breed's Hill, during the Siege of Boston early in the American Revolutionary War. http://www.britishbattles.com/images/bunker-hill/breed-hill-attack.jpg

It was a document that gave people their freedom in the colonies, and then they became their own country. Not part of the British colonies any more. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Writing_the_Declaration_of_Independence_1776_cph.3g09904.jpg/220px-Writing_the_Declaration_of_Independence_1776_cph.3g09904.jpg