Road To Revolution

By Deuce2Real

  • Proclamation Line

    The Proclamation Line of 1763 between the red colored colonies and the pink territories.

  • Stamp Act

    This meant that the American colonists were obliged to pay a fee on almost every piece of paper used for legal documents. The colonists were obliged to pay extra for things that were used on a daily basis, such as newspapers.

  • Quartering Act

    The 1765 Quartering Act made provisions for British troops to be given food and shelter at the expense of the American colonists.

  • Declaratory Act

    The Declaratory Act was passed by the British parliament to affirm its power to legislate for the colonies “in all cases whatsoever”. The declaration stated that Parliament's authority was the same in America as in Britain

  • The Townshend Acts

    The Townshend acts imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies. Townshend hoped the acts would defray imperial expenses in the colonies, but many Americans viewed the taxation as an abuse of power

  • Boston Massacre

    The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists

  • Tea Act

    The Tea Act of 1773 was one of several measures imposed on the American colonists by the heavily indebted British government in the decade leading up to the American Revolutionary War

  • Intolerable or Coercive Acts

    Upset by the Boston Tea Party and other blatant acts of destruction of British property by American colonists, the British Parliament enacts the Coercive Acts, to the outrage of American Patriots

  • Committee Of Correspondence

    The Committees of Correspondence were provisional Patriot emergency governments established in response to British policy on the eve of the American Revolution throughout the Thirteen Colonies.

  • Shot Heard Around The World

    hundreds of British troops set off from Boston toward Concord, Massachusetts, in order to seize weapons and ammunition stockpiled there by American colonists suddenly a shot was fired

  • Declaration of Independence

    The Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776, by the congressional representatives of the 13 Colonies of Colonial America.