Road to Revolution

  • Road to Revolution

    The colonists believed that the British king had allied with the Native Americans, against the interests of the colonists. It is one of the British actions.
  • The French and Indian war

    A French and Indian war that made the colonies of British America against those of New France.
  • The Proclamation of 1763

    They forbade any settlement to the west of a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains, which was outlined as an Indigenous Reserve.
  • The sugar act

    British legislation that aims to end the smuggling of sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies and provide greater revenue to finance extended British Empire liabilities following the French and Indians
  • Stamp act of 1765

    the first domestic tax levied directly from American settlers by the British Parliament.
  • Townshed Acts of 1767

    A series of measures, approved by the British Parliament in 1767, that taxed goods imported into the American colonies.
  • The Boston Massacre

    British soldiers shot and killed several people while being mobbed in Boston.
  • Tea act

    The main objective was to reduce the enormous amount of tea held by the financially problematic British East India Company in its London warehouses and help the company survive.
  • Boston tea party

    was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Intolerable acts

    were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party.
  • 1 Continental Congress

    The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States