Virginia in the American Revolution: The Road to Revolution

Overview: Causes of the American Revolution in Virginia 

Entries: The Road to Revolution

• The Seven Years’ War (1754–1763) 
• Proclamation of 1763 (1763) 
• The Stamp Act in Virginia (1765)
• Treaty of Hard Labor (October 16, 1768) 
• Treaty of Fort Stanwix (November 5, 1768) 
• Virginia Committee of Correspondence (March 12, 1773)  
• Lord Dunmore’s War (May–October 1774) 
• Fairfax Resolves (July 18, 1774) 
• The Virginia Association (August 6, 1774) 
• Fort Gower Resolves (December 22, 1774) 
• Fincastle Resolutions (January 20, 1775) 
• The Gunpowder Incident (April 20–21, 1775) 
• The Battle of Hampton (October 26–27, 1775)
• Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation (November 7, 1775) 
• Lord Dunmore’s Ethiopian Regiment (November 1775–August 1776) 
• The Battle of Great Bridge (December 9, 1775) 
• Burning of Norfolk (January 1, 1776) 
• The Virginia Revolutionary Conventions (1774–1776)
• The Virginia Declaration of Rights (June 12, 1776)