Road to evolution

By yoanhg
  • Navigation Acts

    Navigation Acts

    This Act only allowed British Ships to bring goods into England.
  • End of Salutary Neglect

    End of Salutary Neglect

    The British started to enforce restriction and taxes policy on the colonies
  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763

    This Act prohibited new settlers from crossing the Appalachian mountain to prevent conflict with the Native Americans.
  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act

    A tax on sugar by the British Parliament on the American Colonies
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

    It was created to help pay the military during the Seven Years War
  • Sons of Liberty

    Sons of Liberty

    It was a political organization made to fight the British government
  • Townshed Acts

    Townshed Acts

    It put taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    It's when the British soldier shot into the crowd of colonist, killing 5 and wounding six.
  • Committees of Correspondence

    Committees of Correspondence

    It was a way for the colonial legislature to communicate with their agents in London
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    It was a protest in which the Americans threw over 300+ chest of tea into the Boston Harbor.
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts

    It was law passed by the British punishing the colony of Massachusetts for the Boston tea party.
  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress

    It declared that the colonist should have the same rights as the the Englishmen.
  • Lexington and Concord

    Lexington and Concord

    It was the first battle for the Americans revolutionary against the British.
  • Olive Branch Petition

    Olive Branch Petition

    It was a petition that was sent to the king as the last attempt to prevent the war from being declared
  • Second Continental Congress

    Second Continental Congress

    It was the meeting between the 13 colonies the United to support the American revolutionary.
  • Patrick Henry “Give me Liberty or Give me Death” speech

    Patrick Henry “Give me Liberty or Give me Death” speech

    He argued that British was unwilling to negotiate with the Americans
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

    It was a document from the 13 colonies seeking independence.
  • Thomas Paine “Common Sense”

    Thomas Paine “Common Sense”

    It was a pamphlet written Thomas advocating the independence from the Americans to the British.