Road to Revolution

  • French and indian War Ends

    French and indian War Ends

    Britain gains all land east of the Appalachians
  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act

    Taxed sugar, molasses and rum
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

    Required all legal documents to have a "stamp". This stamp showed that the documents have already been taxed.
  • Quarting Act

    Quarting Act

    Colonists are forced to house soldiers
  • Declatory Act

    Declatory Act

    Parliament finishes repealing the Stamp Act, but states they still have right to tax the colonies
  • Toenshend Act

    Toenshend Act

    Taxed glass, paint, lead, tea, and paper to raise money to help pay for weapons and supplies.
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    Protesters are angered that troops are in the colonies and there was an out break of of shots and it left five dead civilians
  • Tea Act

    Tea Act

    Parliament raised the tax on tea to make it possible to support the Company
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    Angry American Patriots dressed up as Mohawk Indians and dumped East India Company tea into the harbor.
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts

    Four things that stripped Massachusetts self government and judicial independence following the Boston Tea Party
  • Intolerbale Acts

    Intolerbale Acts

    Four things that stripped Massachusetts self government and judicial independence following the Boston Tea Party
  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress

    Colonial delegates meet to organize opposition to the Intolerable acts
  • The Battles Lexington and Concord

    The Battles Lexington and Concord

    First engagement between British troops and the Minutemen, Paul Revere warned them about the coming attacks
  • Second Continental Congress

    Second Continental Congress

    They appoint George Washington commander-in-chief of the continental army
  • Signing of The Declaration of Independence

    Signing of The Declaration of Independence