Events leading to the American Revolution

  • Treaty of Paris(French and Indian War)

    Treaty of Paris(French and Indian War)

    The Treaty of Paris ends the French and Indian War
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    Events leading to the American Revolution

  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act

    a British Law, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on April 5, 1764,
  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act

    a name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the local governments of the American colonies
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

    The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and made them to pay tax on every piece of printed paper they used
  • Townshend Act

    Townshend Act

    a series of acts passed, beginning in 1767, by the Parliament of Great Britain
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    Incident on King Street by the British,
  • Tea Act

    Tea Act

    launch the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston
  • Committees of Correspondence

    Committees of Correspondence

    a body established by various towns or assemblies of the American colonies
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard
  • Coercive Acts / Intolerable Acts

    Coercive Acts / Intolerable Acts

    passed in 1774 to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party.
  • 1st Continental Congress

    1st Continental Congress

    a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies
  • Battle of Lexington and Concord – “shot heard ‘round the world”

    Battle of Lexington and Concord – “shot heard ‘round the world”

    the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War
  • 2nd Continental Congress

    2nd Continental Congress

    a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies
  • Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

    Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

    Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence
  • The Proclamation Line of 1763

    The Proclamation Line of 1763

    is signed forbidding settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains