Road To Revolution

Sugar Act

Apr 5, 1764

Indirect tax (out of sight = out of mind )
Duties on molasses and sugar

stamp act

Oct 7, 1765

Tax on all paper products
Official stamp/seal on all paper items (proof tax was paid)

Declaratory Act

Mar 18, 1766

Parliament declares it has power on to the colonies to get power

Townshend Act

Jun 15, 1767

Taxes on glass , lead , paints , paper , and tea
Searched for smuggled good

colonists vs British troops

Mar 5, 1770

soldier strikes colonists
crowd gathers and hassles soldier, throwing snowballs
frights between troops and Bostonians were common
this became to known as the Boston Massacre.

Tea act

May 10, 1773

Passed in 1773 and allowed British East India Company to sell tea directly to colonists
Lower price than colonist merchant prices
Tax tea cheaper than smuggled tea
Less smuggling

Boston Tea Party

Dec 16, 1773

Members of sons of Liberty Dump over 340 chests of tea into Boston Harbor .

Intolerable Acts

Jan 11, 1774

Passed to punish Boston for tea party
Boston harbor closed until tea paid for
Massachusetts charter canceled
Quartering Act required colonists house soldiers

Quartering act

Jan 15, 1774

the Quartering act and the Intolerable Acts are the same thing but the people rename it to Intolerable Acts because they was mad .

First Continental Congress

Jul 5, 1774

The First Continental Congress
meeting of delegates from 13 Colonies, that met to deal with the Intolerable Acts. Georgia was the only colony that did not send a representative to the Congress. They agreed to boycott British goods at first if Parliament would not repeal the Intolerable Acts.

A Call to Arms

Sep 5, 1774

All colonies but Georgia have
Voted to Boycott all British Trade
Patrick Henry – VA rep. urged

1,000’s of Redcoats in Boston

Apr 1, 1775

General Gage put thousands of soldiers into Boston with more on the way.

Midnight ride of Paul Revere

Apr 18, 1775

Paul Revere rides to warn the Sons of Liberty that the "British are coming... The British are coming.."

Battles of Lexington & Concord

Apr 19, 1775

• Battle of Lexington -
st battle of American Revolutionary War
– “shot heard round the world” -Ralph Waldo
Emerson
– BRITISH Victory
• Battle of Concord -
– Americans Stop British and force them to retreat
back to Boston
– AMERICAN Victory

Capture of Fort Ticonderoga

May 10, 1775

• Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen capture the fort .
• Get all supplies in the fort including cannons .
• us colonist Victory

Declaring Independence

May 10, 1775

second continental congress meet
created continental army let by George Washington
john and Sam Adams , Patrick Henry, Richard Henry Lee, and George Washington and Benjamin Franklin meet in 1776

Battle of Bunker Hill

Jun 16, 1775

“Don’t Fire until you see the whites of their
eyes” - William Prescott
BRITISH Victory Americans ran out of
ammunition British learn defeating Americans
would NOT be easy.

Washington arrives on outskirts of Boston with Continental

Jul 15, 1775

realizes man are disorganized and need discipline . need weapons

common sense by Thomas Paine

Jan 10, 1776

Pamphlet inspires more people

British Surrender Boston

Mar 17, 1776

Washington believes his army is ready .
cannons on Dorchester

second continental congress meet again

Jun 15, 1776

Thomas Jefferson is the primary author of the document

Second Continental congress votes for independence

Jul 2, 1776

the 13 colonies are now independence

The Declaration of Independence is SIGNED !!!

Jul 4, 1776

The American Revolution have started 1775 to 1784