Road to revolution

  • Navigation Acts

    The Navigation Acts were a series of laws passed by the British government in the 17th and 18th centuries to regulate colonial trade.
  • End of Salutary Neglect

    The end of salutary neglect is a shift in British colonial policy during the early 18th century, where Britain began to enforce stricter control over the American colonies
  • Proclamation of 1763

    to stabilize relations between Britain and Native American tribes by preventing colonial expansion westward beyond the Appalachian Mountains.
  • Sugar Act

    Its purpose was to raise revenue to help pay off Britain’s debts from the French and Indian War and to regulate colonial trade.
  • Sons of Liberty

    a secret organization formed in the American colonies in the 1760s to resist British policies and taxes
  • Stamp Act

    the stamp act was a law passed by the British Parliament that required colonists in America to purchase special stamped paper for printed materials
  • Townshend Acts

    a series of laws enacted by the British government that placed new taxes on a variety of goods imported into the American colonies
  • Boston Massacre

    An event in the 1700's in which several people were killed
  • Committees of Correspondence

    governments formed by American colonists in the 1770s to facilitate communication and coordinate resistance against British rule
  • Boston Tea Party

    People snuck onboard a ship and dumped tea
  • Intolerable Acts

    a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 in response to the Boston Tea Party
  • First Continental Congress

    A bunch of people got together and decided something
  • Patrick Henry “Give me Liberty or Give me Death” speech

    one of the most famous calls to arms in American history
  • Second Continental Congress

    A bunch of people got together and decided something
  • Olive Branch Petition

    An attempt by the Second Continental Congress to avoid a full-scale war with Britain and seek a peaceful resolution to the growing tensions
  • Thomas Paine “Common Sense”

    Pamphlet
  • Declaration of Independence

    we free now