Road to Revolution

  • Sugar act

    Sugar act

    Indirect tax ( out of sight = out of mind)
    Duties on molasses and sugar.
  • Stamp act

    Stamp act

    Tax on all paper products
    Official stamp/seal on all paper items ( proof tax was paid)
    Legal Documents ,Licenses, Newspapers, Pamphlets, Playing cards
    Purchased only with valuable silver coins.
    If did not purchased = fined or jailed
    Protested Stamp Act, feeling rights were violated.
    Direct tax
  • Declaratory act

    Declaratory act

    Parliament declares it has power to make laws for the colonies “ in all cases whatsoever”
    Parliament passes this to save face
  • Townshend act

    Townshend act

    Taxes on glass, led, paint, paper, and tea
    Searched for smuggled goods
    Sons of Liberty starts to do violent acts
    British Soldiers arrive to protect tax collectors
  • Tea act

    Tea act

    Passed in 1773 and allowed the British East India Company ( BEIC) to sell tea directly to colonists.
    Lower prices than colonist merchant prices.
    Tax tea cheaper than smuggled tea
    Less smuggling = more tax money.
    Colonial Merchants feared BEIC would put them out of business.
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    Fights between the Bostonians and the troops
  • Quarting act

    Quarting act

    Quartering act required colonists to house soldiers
    “ If a soldier comes knocking at the door…. you’re sleeping on the floor”
  • Intolerable Act

    Intolerable Act

    Passed to punish boston for Tea Party
    Boston harbor closed until tea paid for
    Massachusetts charter canceled
    Royal officials had trial in britain
    Quartering act required colonists to house soldiers
    “ If a soldier comes knocking at the door…. you’re sleeping on the floor”
    Large amount of land given to Quebec
    General thomas Gage became new governor of MA
  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress

    All colonies but Georgia have representatives.
    Voted to send a statement of grievances
    Voted to boycott all British trade
    Patrick Henry- VA rep. urged colonists to unite against Britain
    Sept. 5,1774
  • 2nd Continental Congress

    2nd Continental Congress

    Quartering act required colonists to house soldiers
    “ If a soldier comes knocking at the door…. you’re sleeping on the floor”
  • 1,000 red coats

    1,000 red coats

    General Gage brings thousands of British soldiers to Boston with more on the way.
  • Midnight ride of Paul Revere

    Midnight ride of Paul Revere

    Paul Revere rides to warn the Sons of liberty in lexington and concord that the ” British are coming… The British are coming..”
  • Lexington and Concord

    Lexington and Concord

    Battle of lexington
    1st battle of american revolution war
    “Shot heard round the world”- Ralph Waldo Emerson
    BRITISH Victory.
    Battle of concord
    Americans stop British and force them to retreat back to Boston
    AMERICAN Victory
  • Fort Ticonderoga

    Fort Ticonderoga

    Benedict Arnold & Ethan Allen capture the fort
    Get all supplies in the fort including cannons
    AMERICAN Victory
  • Bunker Hill

    Bunker Hill

    Fought on Breed’s Hill
    “ Don’t Fire until you see the whites of their eyes.”- William Prescott
    BRITISH Victory ( American ran out of ammunition) British learn defeating Americans would NOT be easy.
  • Washington arrives on the outskirts of Boston with continental troops

    Washington arrives on the outskirts of Boston with continental troops

    Realizes men are disorganized & need discipline
    Need weapons
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    Members of sons of liberty dump over 340 chests of tea into boston Harbor
    Boston harbor is a teapot tonight!
    Caused problems for loyalists/ Tories
    Loyalists/Tory= a person in the colony who remains “ loyal” to the King & Great Britain.
  • Common Sense

    Common Sense

    Pamphlet inspires more colonists to become patriots.
    “Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cried, ‘TIS TIME TO PART”- Thomas Paine, common sense.
  • British surrender Boston

    British surrender Boston

    Washington believes his army is ready & weapons arrive
    Washington puts cannons on Dorchester Heights overlooking Boston
    BRITISH retreat - AMERICAN victory
  • Second Continental Congress

    Second Continental Congress

    Debate on declaring independence
    Thomas Jefferson is the primary author of the document
  • votes for Independence

    votes for Independence

  • Declaration of Independence signed

    Declaration of Independence signed