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Road to Revolution

  • Battles of Lexington and Concord
    Apr 9, 1555

    Battles of Lexington and Concord

    the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War, where colonial minutemen confronted British soldiers
  • Nav. act

    Nav. act

    These are a set of laws that were passed by the English Parliament to require the colonists to sell all raw materials to England. even though colonists could possibly find better elsewhere in Europe.
  • fort necessity

    fort necessity

  • French and Indian war

    French and Indian war

    The French and Indian war lasted from august 1756- 1763. Britain gained land in the new world
  • sugar act

    sugar act

    The sugar act was a tax on sugar.
  • Stamp act

    Stamp act

    a 1765 British tax on the American colonies that required a stamp on all legal documents to help pay for the costs of defending the colonies after the French and Indian War
  • declaratory acts

    declaratory acts

    the British parliament had full power to make laws for the colonists
  • Townshend act

    Townshend act

    The Townsend acts were laws that were related to the colonists. with a goal of making the colonists being overly controlled.
  • Boston massacre

    Boston massacre

    a street war between the British red coats and the Boston colonists
  • molasses act

    molasses act

    British law that taxed molasses
  • General Gage takes over Boston

    General Gage takes over Boston

    he was sent to replace the governer.
  • General Gage takes over Boston

    General Gage takes over Boston

    British Commander-in-Chief and new Royal Governor, tasked with enforcing punitive Coercive Acts after the Boston Tea Party
  • intolerable act

    intolerable act

    This was more laws that parliament put on the colonists after the boston tea party.
  • quartering act

    quartering act

    this was a law that the red coats could knock on your door and tell u that they were staying in your house.
  • administration of justice

    administration of justice

    This was like the warrants but they don't have to have multiple.
  • Quebec act

    Quebec act

    This was the law of what reijion people could participate in
  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress

    where all the colonies took over Philadelphia
  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress

    The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 American colonies (Georgia absent) in Philadelphia from September 5 to October 26, 1774
  • Paul Revere's Ride

    Paul Revere's Ride

    he was to alert the colonists that the British were coming
  • Fort Ticonderoga

    Fort Ticonderoga

    This was a battle that played a role in both the French and Indian war and the American revolution.
  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    Battle of Bunker Hill

    it was a war with on a hill but it had a different name but it sounded better
  • Olive Branch Petition

    Olive Branch Petition

    this was the second chance for the British to not start a war with the colonies.