Road to Revolution

By pit522201

  • Treaty of Paris 1763

    This treaty ended the French and Indian War. This treaty left the British in massive debt.

  • Proclamation Act

    The act to separate white settlements from the Indian settlements.

  • Sugar Act

    A law setting tax on sugar and molasses that are imported into the colonies. This impacted the manufacture of rum in New England.

  • Stamp Act

    Taxes were imposed on newspapers, pamphlets, and legal papers.

  • Quartering Act

    The first act to require the provision of housing, drinks and food to the British troops that are in the American colonies

  • Declaration of Rights and Grievances

  • Stamp Act Congress

    The first gathering of the elected representatives from the American colonies to create a unified protest against the British taxation

  • Repeal of the Stamp Act

    Parliament voted to repeal the Stamp Act

  • Declaratory Act

    This act accompanied the Stamp Act Repeal. It allows the British the rights to make laws binding on the colonies.

  • Townshend Acts

    Townshend Acts is a series of laws placing duties on imported items by the colonists (lead, paints, glass, tea and paper).

  • Boston Massacre

    5 civilians were killed by the British.

  • Committee of Correspondence

    In Boston, Massachusetts, Samuel Adams organized the first Committee of Correspondence.

  • Tea Act

    This law allowed the British East India Company to sell low cost tea to the colonies. This undermines the colonial tea merchants.

  • Boston Tea Party

    The Massachusetts patriots pretended to by Indians and protested the British Tea Act by throwing all of their goods overboard.

  • The Intolerable Act

    Harsh laws were passed by the British Parliament. These laws were meant to punish the American colonists for protesting.

  • First Continental Congress

    This congress was made up of delegates from each colony in reaction to the Intolerable Act. They had a series of measures imposed by the British government on the colonies.

  • Lexington and Concord

    These battles kicked off the American Revolutionary War. This is when Paul Revere rode on his horse warning the colonists about the British.

  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    This battle took place in Charlestown, Massachusetts. The British defeated the Americans.

  • Common Sense

    Thomas Paine published a very influential pamphlet that convinced many Americans to break away from the British.

  • Declaration of Independence

    Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, finalizing the freedom for the Americans.

  • The Appeal to Reason

    The Appeal to Reason was a weekly published article in a political newspaper written by Julius Wayland.