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Road to revolution

  • navigation act

    the English forced trade with the colones. selling of raw materials and finished goods could only be done between the colonies and England.
  • Molasses Act

    Molasses Act

    The molasses act was a act that caused taxes on items used to make products the taxes were on molasses and sugar and rum. After this act people started to smuggle the goods so they didnt get taxed.
  • Fort necseity

    George Washington made it while they were being attacked. So they hade a fort to sleep in and not get attacked.
  • French and Indian War:

    French and Indian War:

    was a north american conflict in a large space where the french and India had a large war that lasted 7 years. the french and India war started in February of 1756 and ended in August of 1763
  • Declaratory Acts

    Declaratory Acts

    that parliament could make laws for the american colonise
  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act

    cut the duty on foreign molasses for 6 to 3 gallons. Retained a high duty of foreign sugar and prohibited the all of foreign rum
  • stamp act

    stamp act

    Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies
  • Townshend Act

    Townshend Act

    To help pay the expenses involved in governing the American colonies, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts
  • Intolerable

    Intolerable

    four laws that were passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party.
  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act

    The Quartering Act was that Great Britain would house its soldiers in Americans public houses.
  • Quebec Act

    Quebec Act

    The Quebec Act of 1774 is an important predecessor to the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States by establishing religious freedom.
  • General Thomas Gage takes over Boston

    General Thomas Gage takes over Boston

    a decorated war hero in the French and Indian War, served as the commander in chief of the British Forces in North America from 1763-74.
  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress

    The First Continental Congress twelve of Britain's thirteen American colonies met to discuss America's future under growing British aggression.
  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    Battle of Bunker Hill

    It was one of the bloodiest battles of the American Revolution. Victory at Bunker Hill came at a terrible price for the British,
  • Olive Branch Petition

    Olive Branch Petition

    to be sent to the King as a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared. The Petition emphasized their loyalty to the British crown and emphasized
  • Paul Revere's Ride

    Paul Revere's Ride

    "Paul Revere's Ride" is an 1860 poem by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that commemorates the actions of American patriot
  • Battles of Lexington and Concord

    Battles of Lexington and Concord

    the famous shot heard round the world, marked the start of the American War of Independence
  • Fort Ticonderoga

    Fort Ticonderoga

    As the first rebel victory of the Revolutionary War, the Battle of Fort Ticonderoga served as a morale booster and provided key artillery for the Continental Army in that first year of war.
  • Washington takes Boston

    Washington takes Boston

    was the opening phase of the American Revolutionary War. In the siege, American patriot militia
  • Hessian Soldiers are hired by King George III

    Hessian Soldiers are hired by King George III

    he Americans were outraged at the idea of King George III hiring foreign troops to subdue them
  • DOI is signed

    DOI is signed

    Voting on the Declaration of Independence. After much debate, the Second Continental Congress ultimately agreed to the Declaration of Independence,
  • Boston masacar

    Boston masacar

    British sentries guarding the Boston Customs House shot into a crowd of civilians, killing three men and injuring eight, two of them mortally.
  • Second Continental Congress

    Second Continental Congress

    The Second Continental Congress was the late-18th-century meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that united in support of the American Revolution