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The start of The French and Indian War
The beginning of the french and Indian war
The French and an Indian tribe fought against the British, American colonists, and indian tribe.
The French and Indian War helped lead to the American Revolution because it lead up to the British taxing the people to pay off war exspensis. -
The Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamatin of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 estabished four new colonies and forbade the colonists from moving westward past the Appalachine mountains.
This helped lead to the American Revolution because it forced colonist to stay in the east and not move westward past the Appalachine Mountains if they wanted too. -
The end of the French and Indian War
The end of the French and Indian War
The British won the French and Indian Wa and started to tax the colonists to pay off the war exspensives.
The end of the French and Indian War helped lead to the American Revolution becuase the British started taxing the colonist to pay off the war exspesives. The colonists did not appriciate this. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was an act was when the British taxed many goods that the colonist used so they had to pay extra for things. They used stamps to put on the goods so the colonist would now how much more they were paying.
This lead to the American revolution because when the British started taxing the colonist unfairly the colonist did not appreciate being taxed wthout their concent. -
The Townshend Act
The Townshend Act
The Townshend Act was when Parliament taxed imports on the colonies.
The Townshend Act helped lead to the American Revolution because it forced the colonist to pay to come into America. they passed this law without the concent from the colonists which angred them. -
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was when British soldiers shot at a large crowd of colonist. The shooting ended up killing 5 colonist including a free black man named Crispus Attucks.
This helped lead to the American Revolution because the British had troops stationed in Boston and it took away some of the freedom the colonist had. Also, the killing of 5 free people did not sit well with them. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable act
The Intolerable Act was when Parliament replead the duties, except the one on tea.
This helped lead to the American Revolution becuase the British tried to reap greater benefits from the colonies, by raising taxes. -
The Tea Act
The tea act
The act was intended to raise the revenue in the American colonies and in fact force no new tax laws.
This helped lead to the American Revolution because it lead to the Boston Tea Party. The colonist were unhappy about the act becuase it was forced apon them without their concent once again. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea party was when the Boston people dressed as Indians and boarded a british ship at night to dump all the tea into the ocean.
This helped lead to the American Revolution becuase the colonist were furious about the tea act and wanted to do something against the British rule. -
Lexington and Concord
Lexington and ConcordThe first shots that were fired in the Revolutionary War was at Lexington, Massachusetts. The British planned to arrest Samuel Adams and John Hancock to of the key leaders in the Patriot movement. Guns were stored in Concord by the rebeling colonists.
This helped lead to the American Revolution becuase it was at the beginning of the war and what made the war progress. -
Declaration of Independence.
The Declaration of Independence The Declaration of Independence is the docutment that declares America's Independence. It is signed by many patriots who put there lives on the line for our country.
This helped lead to the American Revolution because it declared our independence from Britian.
