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Road to Revolution

  • Nav. Acts

    Nav. Acts

    A series of laws that the english parliament put on the colonists in the 1600s. It made colonists sell all raw materials to england, even though they could get better prices elsewhere in Europe.
  • Molasses Act

    Molasses Act

    Parliament placed a tax on all sugar product. sugar, molasses and Rum.
  • Fort Necessity

    Fort Necessity

    George washington, set up a fort called Fort Necessity, to drive the french out of the new world, this backfired leading to the George surrendering
  • French and Indian war

    French and Indian war

    The war wasn't even with the indians, it was with the british and french, from august 1756 to feb 1763, the british won.
  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act

    It was for people to stop smuggling things.
  • stamp act

    stamp act

    The british made the colonies stamp all legal documents
  • Declaratory acts

    Declaratory acts

    Parliament's rights to create laws for the american colonies.
  • Townshend act

    Townshend act

    It was to impose taxes and increase control over the colonies
  • Boston massacre

    Boston massacre

    When the lobster backs, shot the british 3 were killed 5 were injured
  • General Gage takes over Boston

    General Gage takes over Boston

    he was in cha anger of the British army in the colonies at the start of the revolutionary war
  • Intolerable (as called by the Colonist) or Coercive (as called by the British)

    Intolerable (as called by the Colonist) or Coercive (as called by the British)

    The colonists felt like their laws were getting oppressive violations against their rights
  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act

    the lobsterbacks when inside of the colonists houses and told them that they were staying there and that the colonists to provide supplies, food, etc
  • Administration of Justice

    Administration of Justice

    the government enforced all of the laws
  • Quebec Act

    Quebec Act

    the British amined the established government for the province of quebec after if was taken from france
  • Fort Ticonderoga

    Fort Ticonderoga

    they gained a lot of cannons that helped dive the British out of boston
  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    Battle of Bunker Hill

    when the colonies tried to stop the British from taking over Boston.
  • Olive Branch Petition

    Olive Branch Petition

    it was the colonies final attempt to make peace with king George III b4 the revolutionary war
  • Benedict Arnold failed to take Quebec

    Benedict Arnold failed to take Quebec

    his army was weak and it made him and his army retreat
  • Washington takes Boston

    Washington takes Boston

    he took Boston by playing the cannons from fort Ticonderoga on the hills around the city making the British leave
  • Hessian Soldiers are hired by King George III

    Hessian Soldiers are hired by King George III

    it was to help George fight against the colonies. and the colonies didn't like it bc it showed the king was willing to pay foreign ppl to fight his own battles
  • DOI is signed

    DOI is signed

    the leaders of the 13 colonies singed it, making it so the colonies were breaking away from the British to make their own country
  • Second Continental Congress

    Second Continental Congress

    they approved the declaration of independence's