Road To Revolution

By baeley
  • Navigation Act

    Navigation Act

    The Navigation Act addressed the competition between the French and Dutch and only allowed North America to send its commodities to England.
  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763

    This policy was established to reduce conflicts between Europeans and Native Americans, prohibiting Europeans from settling in areas already claimed by the French.
  • End of Salutary Neglelct

    End of Salutary Neglelct

    This was the beginning of the conflict with Britain and the 13 colonies. After this, they imposed taxes on the 13 colonies.
  • Sons of Liberty

    Sons of Liberty

    The resistance against unfair taxation and treatment from British Parliament
  • Sugar Act

    British legislation cut molasses duty to 3 pence and banned foreign rum imports.
  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act

    British legislation cut molasses duty to 3 pence and banned foreign rum imports.
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

    The British passed the Stamp Act after the war because they had so much debt. This act taxed all legal and official papers and publications circulating in the colonies.
  • Townshend Act

    Townshend Act

    Put taxed on Glass, Lead, Paint and paper to pay for the French and Indian War the British were in debt for
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    British soldiers shot into a crowd of colonists at the Custom House on King Street. Five colonists died, and six were wounded.
  • Committees of Correspondence

    Committees of Correspondence

    Outlined Colonist's rights and parliament infringements upon those rights
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    Colonists dressed as Natives and dumped 340 chests of East India Company tea into the sea.
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts

    the Intolerable Acts in the American Colonies was a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts for involvement in the Boston Tea Party.
  • Patrick Henry "Give me Liberty or Give me Death" speech

    Patrick Henry "Give me Liberty or Give me Death" speech

    He was insinuating that Americans should prepare for an inevitable war with the British.
  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress

    Meeting for the 12 delegates they concluded that American Colonist and Englishmen should have the same rights
  • The Second Continental Congress

    The Second Continental Congress

    A month after shots were fired in Lexington and Concord George Washington became the Commander In Chief.
  • Lexington And Concord

    Lexington And Concord

    First battle of the American Revolution Massachechettes people defied the British outnumbered and outfought the red coats.
  • Thomas Pain "Common Sense"

    Thomas Pain "Common Sense"

    Made a good argument for why they should be independent and the struggles they've faced and will face
  • Declaration Of Independence

    Declaration Of Independence

    A document that officially wrote their Independence from Great Britian.
  • Olive Branch Petition

    Olive Branch Petition

    a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared. The Petition emphasized their loyalty to the British crown and emphasized their rights as British citizens.