History events leading up to revolutionary war

  • sugar/coffee

    sugar/coffee

    Great Britain began it's many tax acts with this act, putting a tax on foreign sugar, coffee and indigo. This had a large effect on merchants.
  • Stamp Act Congress

    Stamp Act Congress

    This was the first gathering of elected representatives from several of the American colonies
  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act

    This was created for British Parliament of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with housing.
  • Declaratory Act

    Declaratory Act

  • Boston massacre

    Boston massacre

    This was a street fight the occired between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers.
  • Tea act

    Tea act

    Passed to help british merchants(lowered price but still had a tax)
  • Boston tea party

    Boston tea party

    This was a protest with the Son of Libertys when the dumped thousands of dolllars of tea into the habor.
  • Intolerable act

    Intolerable act

    Forced the colonist to form the first continental congress and was punishment for the boston tea party
  • Signing of Declaration of Independence

    Signing of Declaration of Independence

    This event occiered on July 4th, 1774 when the declaratioon of Indepedence was signed.
  • First continental congress

    First continental congress

    This event was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • battle of lexington and concord

    battle of lexington and concord

    The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
  • 2nd coninental congress

    2nd coninental congress

    The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • stamp act

    stamp act

    A series of acts imposing more taxes on the American colonists on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea. All of which were repealed except The Tea Act.
  • Townshend Acts

    Townshend Acts

    A series of acts imposing more taxes on the American colonists on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea. All of which were repealed except The Tea Act.