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Road to revolution

  • French and Indian war

    French and Indian war
    It was a war that was between the French and the British It was for the territory of the new world but it the French made a treaty and it led to the American Revolution.
  • Proclamation 1763

     Proclamation 1763
    Native Americans lead an attack and then the king said that nobody could go pass the Appalachian mountains.
  • The sugar act

    The sugar act
    The sugar act was aimed for ending the smuggling of sugar from the west indies it put a lot of responsibility on the colonies that just finished the French and Indian war.
  • Stamp act

    Stamp act
    The king started taxing the colonies for more revenue and money to go to British because they just fight a war.
  • Townshend Act

    Townshend Act
    The Townshend act was passed by the British by the parliament in 1767, that taxed goods imported to America colonies. But they had no say so they saw it as abuse in power
  • The Boston Massacre

    The Boston Massacre
    The Boston Massacre was a riot that occurred March Fifth 1770 on king street in Boston it began with a street brawl and ended with a massacre.
  • Tea act

    Tea act
    In an effort to save the troubled enterprise, the British Parliament passed the tea act in 1773. The act granted the company the right to ship its tea directly to the colonies with out landing in England first.
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,”
  • Intolerable Act

    Intolerable Act
    Intolerable Act also called coercive act the US colonial history, four punitive measure enacted unacted by British parliament in acts of American defense.
  • Continental congress

    Continental congress
    From 1774 to 1789, the Continental Congress served as the government of the 13 American colonies and later the United States. The First Continental Congress, which was comprised of delegates from the colonies, met in 1774 in reaction to the Coercive Acts, a series of measures imposed by the British government on the colonies in response to their resistance to new taxes.