Carina

rode to revolution

Period: Mar 3, 1762 to Mar 3, 1776

stamp act

Mar 3, 1765

great britan put stamp act

townshend acts

Mar 10, 1767

after the stamp act was repealed king george insisted that britain still had the right to tax the colonies no matter what the the colonists said as a result britain sent more soldiers to the colonists to enforce the tax lasw

boston massacre

Mar 5, 1770

crispus attuks was the first of the 5 colonists who were killed. The colonists don't want to pay taxes.a crowd gathered a brtish and a colonists.

boston tea party (tea act)

Dec 16, 1773

the colonists protested parliment to continued attempts to control them.The Mohawk Indians took over british ships in boston harbor and dumped all the tea in the water

COERCIVE ACTS

Mar 9, 1774

in 1774 parliment passed coercive acts as punishment for the boston tea party.the coecive acts angered many colonists but made them more united

lexinton and concord

Apr 18, 1775

in apil colonists learned of secret british plans to destroy weapons that colonists had stored in the town of lexington and concord massachusetts. on the night of april colonists rode out from boston to warn the towns that british troops were comming.when british troops arrived in lexington the next morning and gatherd to fight them