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road to Revolution

  • Nav. act

    Nav. act

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

    Molasses Act

    British taxed molasses and sugar but colonists avoided tax and started smuggling.
  • Fort Necessity

    Fort Necessity

    Fort Necessity was set up by George Washingtion to help drive out the french from the new world. It back fired the French and the Native amiricans
  • French and Indian War

    French and Indian War

    Britain fighting against the French and natives over land in North American.
  • sugar act

    sugar act

    lower tax on sugar so colonist would stop smuggling.
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

    a small tax on printed stuff. outraged colonist.
  • declaratory act

    parliament can make any choice for the colonies at any time
  • intolerable  act

    intolerable act

    several laws were passed taking away the colonist rights and increasing royal control.
  • Boston massacre

    fight between Boston people and soldiers where a mob was fired into by soldiers.
  • Fort Ticonderoga

    Fort Ticonderoga

    fort in new York during American revelation.
  • Quebec Act

    Quebec Act

    let canadians expand there territory trapping the colonist
  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act

    the British passed a law that required colonists to house and supply for British soldiers .
  • Administration of Justice act

    Administration of Justice act

    British law allowing colonists to have a trial in another colony or Britain.
  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress

    meeting of 12 delegates in philadelphia to discuss response to the coercive act.
  • General Gage takes over Boston

    General Gage takes over Boston

    he helped in force the coercive act that took away the colonist self goverment.
  • Paul Revere's Ride

    Paul Revere's Ride

    a ride to warn the colonist that the British troops were coming.
  • Battles of Lexington and Concord

    Battles of Lexington and Concord

    a British attempt to seize clonal arms. the start of the American revolution
  • Second Continental Congress

    Second Continental Congress

    in Philadelphia congress voted and decided on being independent from Britain and wrote the first declaration of independence.
  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    Battle of Bunker Hill

    red coats assembled at the foot of the hill and charged it. more Americans survived than the British but the colonists were low on gun powder to begin with, so they had to surrender.
  • Olive Branch Petition

    Olive Branch Petition

    a final attempt by the Second Continental Congress to prevent a war with Britain
  • Benedict Arnold failed to take Quebec

    Benedict Arnold failed to take Quebec

    The combined American forces under Arnold and Richard Montgomery launched a desperate, simultaneous assault on Quebec City during a blizzard on New Year's Eve, 1775.
  • Washington takes Boston

    Washington takes Boston

    George Washington took back Boston for the colonies.
  • Hessian Soldiers are hired by King George II

    Hessian Soldiers are hired by King George II

    he hired 30,000 well trained German mercenaries
  • DOI is signed

    DOI is signed

    56 delights representing 13 colonies' sight a document separation from Great Britain