Road to revolution

  • The Sugar Act

    The Sugar Act
    The sugar act was an act which were merchants were required to pay a tax of six sence per gallon of foreign molasses.
  • Currency Act

    Currency Act
    Parliament passed the Currency Act, effectively assuming control of the colonial currency system.
  • The Stamp Act

    The Stamp Act
    The stamp act was an act which were applyied stamp duties to the british colonies, and plantations.
  • The Declaratory Act

    The Declaratory Act
    The Declaratory act was an act which was securing the parliament of great britian.
  • The Boston Massacre

    The Boston Massacre
    The Boston Massacre was a street fight with the britian soldiers and the colonists. it started by one of the colonists throwing a snowball at a british soldier. The british soldier did not know who it was so he shot and killed 3 people.
  • The Tea Act

    The Tea Act
    The tea act was made to give recangzintion to the East India Company, burdened with eighteen million pounds of unsold tea.
  • The Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party
    The boston tea party was about the royal governor wanted to moneyof all taxes. A group of men disguised as Indians boarded the ships and dumped all the tea in the harbor.
  • Coercive Acts

    The coercive acts were acts that was to punish massachusetts. A copule of the rules were that any ships loading and unloading ships in Boston Harbor, and that there were protection to royal officials in Massachusetts
  • Quartering Act

    The quartering act is a act where the british soldiers were able to live in a occupied building.
  • Minutememen

    Minutememen
    The minutemen were a group that was formed out of young soldiers. The were made to fight in the battle of Lexington and Concord.