1. Colonial America Timeline
A Write On Activity

2. 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.

3. Colonial Timeline
Patrick Henry challenges Great Britain's right to impose the tax.
In New York, delegates draw up a Declaration of Rights and Grievances.

4. Colonial Timeline
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.

5. Colonial Timeline
1770: British troops fire into a crowd of demonstrators in Boston in an event that becomes known as the "Boston Massacre."

6. Colonial Timeline
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.

7. Colonial Timeline
Samuel Adams forms a committee for action against Great Britain.
1773: British Parliament passes the Tea Act.

8. Colonial Timeline
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.

9. Colonial Timeline
1775: Patrick Henry makes his "Give me liberty or give me death" speech in Richmond.

10. Colonial Timeline
Paul Revere rides to Lexington, Massachusetts.

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

12. Colonial Timeline 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.

13. Colonial Timeline
1776: The Second Continental Congress passes the American Declaration of Independence.

14. 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.

15. 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.

16. 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)

17. 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

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