road to revolution

  • Second Continental Congress
    May 10, 1175

    Second Continental Congress

    delegates from thirteen colonies that united in support of the American Revolution.
  • Navigation Acts

    Navigation Acts

    Only English ships would be able to bring goods into England and North American colonies could export its raw materials
  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763

    prohibited American colonies from settling on lands acquired from the French following the French and Indian war
  • End of Salutary Neglect

    End of Salutary Neglect

    when the British stared reinforcing tax and restrictions polices in the following french and lindan war.
  • sugar act

    sugar act

    cut the duty on foreign molasses from 6 to 3 pence per gallon, retained a high duty on foreign refined sugar, prohibited the importance of all foreign rum
  • Sons of Liberty

    Sons of Liberty

    issued a call for boycott
  • stamp act

    stamp act

    The Stamp Act helped pay for British troops stationed in the colonies during the Seven Years' war.
  • Townshend Acts

    Townshend Acts

    to help pay the expenses involved in governing the American colonies, which initiated taxes on glass,lead, paint, paper, and tea
  • Boston massacre

    Boston massacre

    political tensions between British soldiers and American colonists turned deadly
  • Committees of correspondence

    Committees of correspondence

    the first revolutionary committees of correspondence organized revolutionary ideas
  • Boston tea party

    Boston tea party

    american political and mercantile protest on December 16.
  • intolerable acts

    intolerable acts

    Massachusetts was under mob rule, peace, and good order in the said province.
  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress

    declared that colonists should have the same rights as Englishmen
  • Olive Branch Petition

    Olive Branch Petition

    adopted by Congress to be sent to the king as an attempt to prevent formal war being declared.
  • Lexington and Concord

    Lexington and Concord

    the famous shot heard round the world marked the start of the American war
  • patrick henry speech

    patrick henry speech

    Patrick henry gave a rousing speech to the Virginia delegation that is created with convincing
  • Declaration of independence

    Declaration of independence

    adopted by the Continental Congress the 13 American colonies severed their political
  • Thomas Paine "Common Sense"

    Thomas Paine "Common Sense"

    made a clear case for independence and directly attacked the political economic and ideological obstacles.