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Road to Revaluation

  • Navigation act

    Navigation act

    The Navigation Act was produced by the British. It meant that the colonies could only trade with the British. and if they did trade with other countries they would be punished.
  • Molasses Act

    Molasses Act

    The British created a law that any imported goods from non-British colonies would be taxed.
  • Fort Necessity

    Fort Necessity

    Fort Necessity was a fort George Wahington built near Fort Duquesne.
  • French and Indian war

    French and Indian war

    This war started over the Ohio River valley. It was a war between the French and British for territory.
  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act

    An enforced tax that on sugar and different products imported into American colonies from non-Brtish.
  • Stamp act

    Stamp act

    A stamp that people would put on newspapers and other papers even on playing cards that the colonists bought them would be taxed.
  • Townshed Act

    Townshed Act

    A tax on imported goods such as glass, lead, paper, tea, and paint.
  • Boston massacre

    Boston massacre

    The boston massacre started with little boys throwing snow at the guards and mocking them. More people started showing up with oyster shells and throwing them to men then showed up with clubs. Hugh white fell and dropped his gun and it shot someone and killed them. People got mad and started beating the red coats.
  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress

    A congress of all the colonies leaders met in Philadelphia. They present ideas about the crown. They all decided they would boycott and not buy from Tory ( colonists who were still loyal to the crown.
  • Intolerable act

    Intolerable act

    Called by the colonists happened after the boston tea party. This was the last straw for the colonists after the British kept imposing laws. So this is when the colonists started to rise against the British.
  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act

    The Quartering Act was an act that allowed redcoats to live in your house for the night. These guards would expect breakfast in the morning exactly how they wanted it. They would also sleep in your bed.
  • Quebec Act

    Quebec Act

    The Quebec Act was an act in Quebec. It was a governing act. The act governed the providences of Quebec.
  • General Thomas Gage takes over Boston

    General Thomas Gage takes over Boston

    General Thomas Gage went to Massachusetts. He replaced Hutchinson and sent Hutchinson somewhere. He then became the leader of Massachusetts.
  • Paul Revere's Ride

    Paul Revere's Ride

    Paul's reveres ride was a warning to the colonists that the British were coming. He got stopped by the redcoats. He rode on a horse but got stopped and another guy continued the ride.
  • Battles of Lexington and Concord

    Battles of Lexington and Concord

    This was the fight between the Americans and the British. This fight set off the American Revolutionary War. The Americans won.
  • Fort Ticonderoga

    Fort Ticonderoga

    This was the first victory for the Americans in the Revolutionary War. They fought the British off. They also kept the land.
  • Second Continental Congress

    Second Continental Congress

    The Second Continental Congress was a meeting about the Declaration of Independence. Every colony had to pass this new document. And they did pass and they got their independence.
  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    Battle of Bunker Hill

    This was a battle between the Americans and the British. The British won this. Even though it was on a hilly landscape.
  • Olive Branch Petition

    Olive Branch Petition

    This was a petition sent to the king. This was a petition to formally stop the war that was coming. The continental congrees sent this petition.
  • Declaratory Acts

    Declaratory Acts

    It was to confirm that the British could tac the American colonists.
  • Washington takes Boston

    Washington takes Boston

    This was the first war of the American Revolutionary War. This war was led by General George Wahington. And the Americans did win this war.
  • Hessian Soldiers are hired by King George III

    Hessian Soldiers are hired by King George III

    King George hired troops from other countries. The Americans did not like it
  • DOI is signed

    DOI is signed

    The DOI being signed was a decision by the Second Continental Congress. All colonies did agree with this. S everybody signed it and they got most of their independence.
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    At night colonists dressed as native americans snick on the ship and threw 342 chests of tea overboard.