road to revolution 5.3 5.4

  • 1000 red coats

    1000 red coats

    allowed indivsual soliders soliders to easily duisguish from freinds or foes.
  • sugar act

    sugar act

    it reduced the tax on malasses
  • stamp act

    stamp act

    to raise money for britians army through papers and stamps
  • quartering act

    quartering act

    when britian soliders would take over the civilians house and beet them or kick them out.
  • declaroty act

    declaroty act

    parliment could make laws binding the american colonies.
  • townshed act

    townshed act

    taxed goods imported to the american colony.
  • the boston massacre

    the boston massacre

    red coats clash with the colonists
  • tea act

    tea act

    giving all control of the trades and delivery of tea to the east india company.
  • boston tea party

    boston tea party

    members of son of liberty dumped 342 chests of tea into the ocean
  • the intolerable acts

    the intolerable acts

    the one with all the acts with country names in it
  • first continetal congress

    first continetal congress

    the first continental congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 british colonies that met to deal with the intolerable acts georgia was the only colony that did not send a representive to the congress they agree to boycott british goods at first if parliment would not repeal the intolerable acts.
  • midnight ride of paul revere

    midnight ride of paul revere

    a British patrol intercepted all three men Prescott and Dawes escaped Revere was held for some time questioned and then let go.
  • lexington and concord

    lexington and concord

    the day were the independence war started to begin.
  • second continetal congress

    second continetal congress

    formal meeting of delegates from the American colonies to form a provisional government together to make decisions about the war with Britain over American independence.
  • 2nd Continental Congress

    2nd Continental Congress

    the formal meeting of delegates from the American colonies to form a provisional government together to make decisions about the war with Britain over American independence
  • bunker hill

    bunker hill

    british had beat americans
  • Common Sense

    Common Sense

    a 47 page pamphlet written by thomas paine
  • Washington arrives at Boston with Continental Troops

    Washington arrives at Boston with Continental Troops

    General George Washington arrived in the Boston area to take charge of the newly established Continental army
  • British Surrender Boston

    British Surrender Boston

    british is froced to evacuate boston
  • Votes for Independence

    Votes for Independence

    only 9 of the colonies voted this day
  • Declaration of Independence signed

    Declaration of Independence signed

    Richard Henry Lee, George Wythe, Elbridge Gerry, Oliver Wolcott, Lewis Morris, Thomas McKean, and Matthew Thornton signed the document after August 2, 1776.
  • fort Ticonderoga

    fort Ticonderoga

    the first offensive victory for American forces in the Revolutionary War.