Road to Revolution: 1760-1776

  • French and Indian War

  • Signing of The Treaty of Paris

    Signing of The Treaty of Paris

    This Treaty would end the seven year war in North America. France ceded all Mainlands except for New Orleans The British gained all of east in the Mississippi River and Spain had all of west Mississippi River and east, west of Florida.
  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763

    King George the third prohibited all settlement west of the Appalachian mountains without guarantees of security from local Native American nations. After this the intervention of colonial affairs offended the 13 colonies.
  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act

    This time the King decided to tax the colonies since they spend so much money of the war helping they thought it was a good idea. They taxed the sugar and colonists didn’t like this at all they were furious on why they had to pay tax for sugar and other things that didn’t need to be taxed.
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

    Seeking to defray some of the costs of garrisoning the colonies the Parliament required all Legal Documents, Newspapers, Pamphlets that need to be watermarked or stamped had tax on them.
  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act

    Colonies assembly’s were forced to pay for the supplies of the British Garrisons The New York assembly argued that it could not be forced to comply.
  • Virginian Resolution

    Virginian Resolution

    The Virginian assembly refused to comply with the Stamp Act
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    Stamp Act Congress

    Nine out of the 13 colonies believe that the stamp act is unconstitutional as it was taxed without there consent at all.
  • Declaratory Act

    Declaratory Act

    Parliament Finalized the Repeal of the stamp act, but still declared that the British had the the right to tax the colonies.
  • Townshend Revenue Act (Townshend Duties)

    Townshend Revenue Act (Townshend Duties)

    Duties on Tea, Glass, Lead, Paper and Paint to help pay for administration of the colonies Named after Charles Townshend The chancellor of the Exchequer
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    People angered from the British soldiers a crowd started to harass a group of soldiers until one was knocked and musket fired five civilians were killed in the Boston Massacre.
  • Repeal of the Townshend Act

  • Burning of the Gaspee

    Burning of the Gaspee

    The gasped was a ship that was set on fire by local in Rhode Island because by the enforcement of trade legislation.
  • Publication of Thomas Hutchinson letters

    Publication of Thomas Hutchinson letters

    Thomas Hutchinson had letters that read that advocated a “Great Restraint of Natural Liberty” that convinced colonists of a planned British clampdown on there freedoms.
  • Tea Act

    Tea Act

    American colonists dressed up as Mohawk Indians then dumped 9,000 worth of tea into the sea.
  • Continental Congress Issues the Declaration of Independence

    Continental Congress Issues the Declaration of Independence