Revolution

Road to Revolution

By mdogfisher
  • Mercantilism

    Mercantilism

    Mercantilism is the theory of exporting more goods and crops than you are importing. Colonies throughout the 1600s used this theory to thrive and be successful. Their main goal was to become a self-sufficient colony.
  • Salutary Neglet

    Salutary Neglet

    As long as the colonies remained economic loyalty England would relax its enforcement of most regulations. This kept the economy flowing between England and the colonies.
  • French and Indian War

    French and Indian War

    Britain and France were both struggling for control of the new world. Each country trying desperately to gain more territory. Unfortunately the French lost this war and most of their land in the Americas along with it.
  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763

    This proclamation banned all settlements west of the Appalachian mountains. The British, however, had no way of enforcing this law. resulting in colonists moving westward anyways.
  • The Stamp Act of 1765

    The Stamp Act of 1765

    Parliament imposed a new tax on the colonists that required them to pay taxes on every piece of printed paper.
  • The Quartering Act

    The Quartering Act

    Parliament enacted the local governments to order people to give the troops home and accomidations.
  • The Stamp Act of Congress of 1765

    The Stamp Act of Congress of 1765

    A formal gathering, consisting of representatives from a few British colonies, to protest against new British taxation.
  • The Declaratory Act of 1766

    The Declaratory Act of 1766

    Stated that the British's Parliament had the same right to tax in the Americas as it did in the British.
  • The Townshend Acts

    The Townshend Acts

    Indirect taxes, or duties levie on imported materials. These acts also placed a three-penny tax on tea, the most popular drink in the colonies.
  • The Boston Massacre

    The Boston Massacre

    Group of colonists gathered in protest against the British soldiers. The British felt scared so one of them shot a colonist, causing major problems in the future.
  • The Tea Act of 1773

    The Tea Act of 1773

    This act granted the British East India Company a monopoly in the Americas for tea.
  • The Boston Tea Party of 1773

    The Boston Tea Party of 1773

    The Sons of Liberty came together and threw tea into the Boston harbor as a protest against the tea act.
  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress

    A convention of delegates from twelve colonies.
  • The Coercive/Intolerable Acts

    The Coercive/Intolerable Acts

    A series of punitive laws made after the Boston tea party in attempt to punish the colonists.
  • Battles of Lexington and Concord

    Battles of Lexington and Concord

    First military engagements of the Revolutionary War.

  • Second Continental Congress

    A convention of delegates from the thirteen colonies.
  • Thomas Paine Writes Common Sense

    Thomas Paine Writes Common Sense

    A panphlet that inspired people in the colonies to fight back against the British.
  • The Declaration of Independence

    The Declaration of Independence

    A document that stated the thirteen colonies were now regarding themselves as newly independent sovereign states.
  • The American Revolution Ends

    The American Revolution Ends

    Treaty of Paris ended the war. Colonists for the most part had won their independence from Britain.
  • The Treaty of Paris

    The Treaty of Paris

    Document that ended the Revolutionary War between Great Britain and the United States of America.