Events Leading Up to the American Revolution

  • Jamestown

    Jamestown

    America's first permanent English colony.
  • Virginia House of Burgesses

    Virginia House of Burgesses

    First legislative assembly in the American colonies.
  • Mayflower Compact

    Mayflower Compact

    First agreement for self government to be created and enforced in america
  • Bacon's Rebellion

    Bacon's Rebellion

    Rebellion by Virginia settlers, lead by Nathaniel Bacon, against the ruling of William Berkley.
  • Salem Witch Trials

    Salem Witch Trials

    Many women were accused of being witches due to the economical crash of Massachusetts.
  • French and Indian War

    French and Indian War

    War between the French and the British that ended with Britain gaining all of the French territory in America.
  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763

    Prohibited the settlement of British colonist past the appalachian mountains which angered a lot of the Americans.
  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act

    Modified the Molasses act and made the tax more strict.
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

    British tax on colonist that stated every printed item must have a stamp.
  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act

    Allowed the british soldiers to be housed in public houses.
  • Townshend Acts

    Townshend Acts

    British acts of Parliament relating to the british in America.
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    British soldiers shot and killed 5 colonist on the streets of Boston.
  • Tea Act

    Tea Act

    Act of Parliament to reduce the large amount of tea held by the British East India Company and the help the financially struggling to survive.
  • Committees of Correspondence

    Committees of Correspondence

    Shadow governments organized by patriot leaders of the thirteen colonies. They spread the colonies interpretation to the rest of the colonist and to foreign countries.
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    Colonist mad that Britain was taxing without representation so they protested by dumping 342 chest of tea into the Boston Harbor.
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts

    Punitive Laws that were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonist for the Boston Tea Party.
  • First Constinental Congress

    First Constinental Congress

    12 out of the 13 colonies met to discuss their response to the intolerable acts.
  • Lexington and Concord

    Lexington and Concord

    First battles of American Revolutionary War.
  • Olive Branch Petition

    Olive Branch Petition

    Final attempt by colonist to avoid going to war with Britain.
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

    American colonies declare independence from Britain.