Road to the Constitution

  • Stamp Act

    This act that put taxes on legal documents, newspaper, pamhlet, and decks of cards coming into the colonies
    What this did to lead to the resolutionary war was get the citizens anrgy because they were having to pay more for somthing that they used every day.
  • Quartering Act

    This act was when the british took there army on the western islands and put them into the cities. They moved them into the homes of citizens.

    What this did to get the citizens to break away from the brits is when they moved the armys into the citizens houses it violated there natural rights like the privacy and property beacuse the army just barged in and took over there houses and said were crashing here and you have to feed us.
  • Boston Massacre

    This event was when the british army had opened fire on the public of the brits killing 5 people .
    What this did was make other colonies belive that the british were makeing there citizen obey the laws by force and killing them if they didnt.
  • Tea Act

    This act was when the east indian company the right to sell there tea to all thje colonies.
    What this did was prevent the company from becoming broke
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    This was the event when the colonist tried unloading cargoof tea into the boston harbor. When the protestors ripped open 342 chest of tea and through them into the harbor
    This made the british close the Harbor and shut down all trade.