Road to revolution

French and Indian war

May 28, 1754

http://www.warpaths2peacepipes.com/the-indian-wars/french-indian-war.htm
The French and Indian war was a series of militray engadments between Britian and France, it was known as the seven years' war. The French and Indian war helped lead to the American Revolution because fuding in this war left Great Britian in a debt which they felt the americans should pay for, The last reason is the French supported American Independence and joined the fray.

Proclamation of 1763

Oct 7, 1763

http://www.landofthebrave.info/proclamation-of-1763.htm
The Proclamation of 1763 offically claimed British territory in North America, after Britian won the Seven Years War. British officials were unable to balance the interests of the colonists and indians, these conflicts lead to imperial rule and the American Revolution.

Stamp Act

Mar 22, 1765

http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/stamp-act
An act of British Parliament that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty of newspapers and legal documents. The American colonists believed that the Parliament could not tax them, this then gave rising to the Revolutionary war.

Townshend Acts

Jun 29, 1767

http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/townshend-acts Introduced by the English Parliament to impose duties on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea imported into the colonies. The burning of British patrol boat Gaspee resistance to the tea tax became a symbol of American patriotism leading to the American Revolution.

Boston Massacre

Mar 5, 1770

http://www.bostonmassacre.net/academic/essay2.htm A street fight that occured between a "patriot" mob throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soilders. The Boston Massacre is considered to be the first battle of the Revolutionary War.

Tea Act

May 10, 1773

http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/tea-act An act of the Parliament of Great Britian to reduce a massive surplus of tea held by the financially troubled British East Indian Company. The Tea Act was one measure imposed on the American colonists by a heavily indebted British Government.

Boston Tea Party

Dec 16, 1773

http://www.boston-tea-party.org/essays/essay6.html
A political protest by Sons of Liberty in Boston, also known as "the destruction of the tea." This act helped the colonists start the violent part of the Revolution.

Intolerable Acts

May 10, 1774

http://www.ushistory.org/us/9g.asp' After the Boston Tea Party the American Patriots' called a seris of punitive laws passed by the Britsh Parliament Intolerable Acts. All of the American colonists had thought the British went to far leading to the Revolution.

Lexington and Concord

Apr 19, 1775

http://www.theamericanrevolution.org/battledetail.aspx
A British armed force marched into Boston to destroy American military weapons at the town of Concord. The battles of Lextington and Concord were the first military engagments of the American Revolutionary War.

Declaration of Independence

Jul 4, 1776

http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/declaration-of-independence
A formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the Thirteen American colonies from Great Britian. Americans were fighting only for there rights as subjects of the British crown.