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Road to Revolution

  • The Sugar Act
    1764 BCE

    The Sugar Act

    The sugar act was when Grenville took measures that the duty be strictly enforced which caused immediate decline in the rum industry in the colonies.
  • The French and Indian war

    The French and Indian war

    The French and Indian war began started because over the specific issue of whether and upper Ohio River valley was a part of the British Empire.
  • The Proclamation of 1763

    The Proclamation of 1763

    It was issued by King George 3rd. It also followed the treaty of Paris, which ended the Seven Years' War and transferred French territory in North America o Great Britain.
  • Stamp Act of 1766

    Stamp Act of 1766

    The act was to help replenish their finances after the costly Seven Years' War with France.
  • Townshend Acts of 1767

    Townshend Acts of 1767

    Townshend Acts of 1767 was taxed goods imported to the American colonies. But American colonists, who had no representation in Parliament, saw the Acts as an abuse of power.
  • The Boston Massacre

    The Boston Massacre

    A patriot mon attacked a British loyalist, who fire a gun at them and killed a boy. It was days of colonists and British soldiers eventually culminated in the Boston Massacre.
  • Tea Act

    Tea Act

    The act granted the company the right to ship its tea directly to the colonies without first landing it in English and and to commission agents who would have the sole right to sell tea in the colonies.
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    American colonists frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing "taxation without representation."
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts

    It was a series of four law passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party.
  • 1st Continental Congress

    1st Continental Congress

    It was a discuss about boycotting British goods to establish the rights of Americans and Planned for a Second Continental Congress