Road to Revolution

  • Navigation Acts

    Navigation Acts

    English laws that were used to regulate ships and trading within its own colonies and other countries.
  • End of Salutary Neglect

    End of Salutary Neglect

    Salutary Neglect allowed things to happen without the English having a say. The ending of it means the laws will be more strongly enforced now.
  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763

    A boundary that the British made to prohibit settlers from crossing west to avoid conflict between settlers and Native Americans
  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act

    Used to try and end the smuggling of sugar and molasses from the French.
  • Sons of Liberty

    Sons of Liberty

    A secret Patriot paramilitary political organization to underline British rule and made the Boston Tea Party happen
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

    Britain started adding taxes to paper products to raise more money.
  • Townshend Acts

    Townshend Acts

    Put taxes on glass, leaf, paint, paper, and tea.
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    British soldiers shot into a crowd of civilians killing some because they were harassing them.
  • Committees of Correspondence

    Committees of Correspondence

    Allowed colonial legislatures to communicate with agents in London
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    Political protest against the British tax on tea. They dumped tea into the harbor. The British responded harshly and fights broke out.
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts

    A series of laws passed by the British parliament in response to the Boston Tea Party
  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress

    12 of the 13 colonies met and decided that the colonists deserved the same rights as Englishmen
  • Second Continental Congress

    Second Continental Congress

    Established an army and elected George Washington as commander-in-chief
  • Patrick Henry “Give me Liberty or Give me Death” speech

    Patrick Henry “Give me Liberty or Give me Death” speech

    Speech that tells colonists to fight for their freedom and don't trust the British
  • Lexington and Concord

    Lexington and Concord

    The first military campaign for the American Revolutionary War. Massachusetts colonists defied British authority
  • Olive Branch Petition

    Olive Branch Petition

    It was supposed to be sent to the King to attempt to prevent war from being declared
  • Thomas Paine “Common Sense”

    Thomas Paine “Common Sense”

    Pamphlet that advocates independence from Great Britain to the 13 colonies
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

    Gave the 13 colonists independence and outlined the summarization of what the colonists wanted