events leading to the American revolution- CY

  • proclamation line of 1763

    proclamation line of 1763

    king George enforced this along Appalachian mountains and colonist were not aloud to settle west of the line
  • sugar act

    sugar act

    reduced the tax on foreign molasses increased the tax on sugar
  • stamp act

    stamp act

    British increases tax on all paper but also made it to where colonists cant buy paper from other places to make up for war debt
  • Townshend acts

    Townshend acts

    a series of British laws passed that but a tax on goods imported from American colonies
  • tea act

    tea act

    The British east India company was in debt from the war so British passed a law forced colonist to only buy tea from that company
  • intolerable acts

    intolerable acts

    Laws to punish colonists and end colonial challenges to British authority
  • first continental congress

    first continental congress

    meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen American colonies
  • second continental congress

    second continental congress

    governing body of colonies that played a crucial role in thew revolution
  • Lexington and concord

    Lexington and concord

    first step into the revolutionary war
  • common sense

    common sense

    Thomas Paine trying to convince colonist to seperate from britian
  • declaration of independence

    declaration of independence

    gave everyone rights and declared the colonies independence from Britain