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Road to Revolution
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French and Indain war starts
The French and Indian War started when Britian felt that they needed to prevent the French from gaining control over trade and territories. -
French and Indian war ends
British captured the city of Louisbourg in Canada.They blocked the St. Lawrence Seaway, to stop all French trade to inland towns and the frontier.The britsh suprised the French with a final blow.The British continued to be successful in the battle they gained control over their territories. -
The Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation was a celebration of the French and Indian War. Becasue of it, it removed several ominous barriers and opened up new opportunities for the colonists. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was an act for granting and applying certian stamp duties, and other duties. A motion was offered to first read petitions from the Virginia colony, others were denied. it was passed on to be approved over the colonies. -
Townshend Acts
The resurrection of colonial hostilities created by the Stamp Act, assumed revolutionary proportions in Boston. Crowds mobbed the customs office, forcing the officials to retire a British Warship in the Harbor. They also established non-importation agreements that spread around the colonies. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight between a patriot mob, throwing snow balls, stones, and sticks and a squad of British soliders.The Boston Massacre was a signal event leading to the Revolutionary War. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act would launch the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston. This tea was to be shipped directly to the colonies and to be sold as a bargin price. The Americans believed that this act was maneuver to buy popular support for the taxes already in the force. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was an act of American colonial defiance served as a protest against taxation.While consignees in Charleston, New York, and Philadelphia rejected tea shipments, merchants in Boston refused to concede to Patriot pressure. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Act was were the colonies were pressed with greater taxes without any representation in Britian. Eventually it went to the Boston Tea Party, in retaliation the British passed punative acts for bringing the colonies back into submission of the King. -
Lexington and Concord
The plan for Lexington was to sent the British soldiers were to capture the Colonial leaders Sam Adams and John Hancock, then concord where they would seize gunpowder. -
Declaration of Independence
The Americans were ostensibly fighting only for their rights as subjects of the British crown.With the Revolutionary War the movement for independence from Britian had grown. And the Declaration of Independence was written largely by Jefferson in Philadelphia on July 4, and celebrated as the birth of American Independence.
