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Events leading up to American revoultion

By 13sniderc
  • the sugar act

    the sugar act

    put a 3 cent tax on foreign refined sugar.

  • Stamp act

    Made everyone put stamps on there letters
  • Patrick Henry's "If this be treason"

    Patrick Henry's "If this be treason"

    The speech that ended with "Give me liberty, or give me death!"
  • Townshend acts

    Townshend acts

    Laws that place new taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea
  • The Boston Massacre

    The Boston Massacre

    Shooting of five american colonists by british troops. ( but it was really the templars)
  • The Boston tea party

    The Boston tea party

    Angry and frustrated at a new tax on tea, American colonists calling themselves the Sons of Liberty and disguised as Mohawk Native Americans boarded three British ships and dumped 342 whole crates of British tea into Boston harbor on December 16, 1773.
  • The First Continental Congress

    The First Continental Congress

    Two groups of people from all over the 13 Colonies who came together to discuss liberty
  • Paul Revere

    Paul Revere

    Rode on a horse and said " The British are comming"!
  • the battles of lexington and concord

    the battles of lexington and concord

    First shots fired between American and British troops, on April 19, 1775
  • Declaration of Indepenedence

    Declaration of Indepenedence

    Document declaring the 13 American Colonies independent from Great Britain