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Revolution Timeline Cards

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Revolution Timeline Cards

American Revolution timeline illustration

📅 Part 1: Create Your Timeline Cards

Instructions: Cut out each card below. Read the information carefully, then arrange the cards in chronological order (from earliest to latest).

French and Indian War

Date: 1754-1763

What Happened: Britain and France fought over land in North America. Britain won but spent lots of money on the war. To pay for it, Britain decided to tax the American colonists.

Stamp Act

Date: 1765

What Happened: Britain made a law that colonists had to buy special stamps for newspapers, playing cards, and legal papers. The colonists were angry because they had no say in making this law.

Tea Act

Date: 1773

What Happened: Britain passed a law giving one company control over all tea sales in America. This made colonists even more upset about unfair laws and taxes.

Boston Tea Party

Date: December 16, 1773

What Happened: Angry colonists dressed up like Native Americans and dumped 342 chests of British tea into Boston Harbor to protest the Tea Act.

First Continental Congress

Date: September 1774

What Happened: Representatives from 12 colonies met in Philadelphia to discuss their problems with Britain and plan how to respond to unfair laws.

🤔 Part 2: Understanding the Timeline

1. Which event happened first?

Boston Tea Party

French and Indian War

Stamp Act

2. The colonists were upset because they had "taxation without representation." What does this mean?

They didn't want to pay any taxes

They had no voice in making the tax laws

They wanted to make their own money

3. How many years passed between the Stamp Act and the First Continental Congress?

_________ years

4. Which two events happened in the same year?
5. Explain how the French and Indian War led to other problems between Britain and the colonists.
6. Why do you think the colonists chose to dump tea into the harbor instead of just writing a letter of complaint?

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