American Revolution aos1 dates

Question 1

Start of French and Indian War

Answer 1

28 May 1754

Question 2

Albany Congress

Answer 2

19 June - 11 July 1754

Question 3

George III becomes King

Answer 3

25 October 1760

Question 4

Treaty of Paris (end of French and Indian War)

Answer 4

10 February 1763

Question 5

Pontiac’s Rebellion

Answer 5

7 May 1763

Question 6

Royal Proclamation

Answer 6

7 October 1763

Question 7

Sugar Act

Answer 7

5 April 1764

Question 8

Founding of Massachusetts’ Committee of Correspondence

Answer 8

June 1764

Question 9

Currency Act

Answer 9

1 September 1764

Question 10

Stamp Act

Answer 10

22 March 1765

Question 11

Quartering Act

Answer 11

24 March 1765

Question 12

Patrick Henry presents Stamp Act Resolves (Virginia Resolves)

Answer 12

29 - 30 May 1765

Question 13

Stamp Act Congress

Answer 13

7 - 25 October 1765

Question 14

Sons of Liberty founded

Answer 14

December 1765

Question 15

Stamp Act Repeal

Answer 15

18 March 1766

Question 16

Declaratory Act

Answer 16

18 March 1766

Question 17

Townshend Duties

Answer 17

13 June - 2 July 1767

Question 18

Samuel Adams issues ‘circular letter’

Answer 18

11 February 1768

Question 19

John Hancock’s ‘Liberty’ is seized

Answer 19

9 June 1768

Question 20

Standing Army (two regiments) arrive in Boston for the first time

Answer 20

28 September 1768

Question 21

Boston Massacre

Answer 21

5 March 1770

Question 22

Gaspee Affair (British ship burned)

Answer 22

9 June 1772

Question 23

Samuel Adams officially founds twenty-one-man Committee of Correspondance

Answer 23

20 November 1772

Question 24

Virginia sets up Committee of Correspondance

Answer 24

12 March 1773

Question 25

Tea Act

Answer 25

10 May 1773

Question 26

Three ships (the Dartmouth, Eleanor and Beaver) in Boston Harbour are unable to offload cargo

Answer 26

29 November - 15 December 1773

Question 27

Boston Tea Party

Answer 27

16 December 1773

Question 28

Boston Port Act

Answer 28

31 March 1774

Question 29

Massachusetts Government Act

Answer 29

20 May 1774

Question 30

Administration of Justice Act

Answer 30

20 May 1774

Question 31

Quartering Act (revised)

Answer 31

2 June 1774

Question 32

Quebec Act

Answer 32

22 June 1774

Question 33

Massachusetts Powder Alarms (General Thomas Gage seizes gunpowder from a powder house in Somerville)

Answer 33

1 September 1774

Question 34

First Continental Congress

Answer 34

5 September - 24 October 1774

Question 35

Massachetts declared in a 'state of rebellion'

Answer 35

9 February 1774

Question 36

Battle of Lexington - Concord

Answer 36

19 April 1775

Question 37

Second Continental Congress begins

Answer 37

10 May 1775

Question 38

Americans capture Fort Ticonderoga

Answer 38

10 May 1775

Question 39

'Give me liberty or give me death' Patrick Henry

Answer 39

23 March 1775

Question 40

Battle of Bunker Hill

Answer 40

17 June 1775

Question 41

George Washington appointed as commander of Continental Army

Answer 41

19 June 1775

Question 42

Olive Branch Petition

Answer 42

5 July 1775

Question 43

Declaration on the Causes and Necessities for Taking Up Arms

Answer 43

6 July 1775

Question 44

Continental Congress founds Continental Navy

Answer 44

133 October 1775

Question 45

Proclamation of Rebellion

Answer 45

23 December 1775

Question 46

First state, New Hampshire, passed state Constitution

Answer 46

5 January 1776

Question 47

'Common Sense' published

Answer 47

10 January 1776

Question 48

'Declaration of Independence' adopted

Answer 48

4 July 1776