Road to revolution

By jasssmo
  • Proclamation Line

    Proclamation Line

    Forbade all settlement passing a line mentally drawn along the Appalachian mountains
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

    This act was the first direct tax on the colonists
  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act

    Required colonists to provide food and shelter to British soldiers
  • Declaratory Act

    Declaratory Act

    this law declared England's authority to make laws for the colonies
  • Townshed Acts

    Townshed Acts

    Series of acts taxed items like tea,paper,and glass
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    British soldiers fired on a heckling crowd of colonist , 5 people died
  • Committee of Correspondence

    Committee of Correspondence

    The house of burgesses had proposed that each and all legislature made a standing committee for inter colonial correspondence
  • Tea Act

    Tea Act

    Reduce the amount of tea held
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    A protest by the sons of liberty in Boston , throwing tea into the Boston harbor
  • Intolerable or Coercive Acts

    Intolerable or Coercive Acts

    A Hard law passed by the British to punish the american colonists
  • "Shot Heard Around the World"

    "Shot Heard Around the World"

    A battle that breaks out in Lexington
  • Common Sense

    Common Sense

    A book wrote by Thomas Paine; This book was about the 13 colonies having independence from Great Britain
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

    When we ( the Americas ) got independence from England