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Road to Revolution- Andrew Balogh

By Andrew Balogh
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    Causes of the American Revolution

    This timespan is the time that led up to the Revloutionary War. Britian passed a buch of Acts that made the colonists angry. These Acts were mostly to get money from the colonists to pay off their debt rom the French and Indian War.

  • End of the French and Indian War

    End of the French and Indian War
    Interactive French and Indian War
    A debt for the British this war did create
    The money Britian took from the colonies started the hate.
    "Taxation without representation is tyranny," James Otis said
    Indeed taxes were on things like sugar and lead.

  • The Proclamation of 1763

    The Proclamation of 1763
    Youtube Video
    This proclamation made by the king of England prevented colonist from settling their new territory westward recently gained after the French and Indian War. The King said this was to prevent the Native Americans' anger that would happen when their land was taken. The colonists thought the real reason was to keep them closer together so the King could more easily control them.

  • The Sugar Act

    The Sugar Act
    USHistory.org
    This act charged an extra three pence per gallon
    On sugar and molasses imported from places foreign.
    Also taxed were wines, coffee, and more,
    The colonists started a boycott war
    Both sides got mad,
    The each considered the other bad.

  • The Stamp Act

    The Stamp Act
    Jeopardy!
    This Act taxed documents including wills, contracts, and more. Once again,colonists reacted with a boycott. Britian and the colonists started getting even angrier.

  • The Quartering Act

    The Quartering Act
    PBS Liberty Game
    This act made colonists share their homes,
    As well as feed and give soldiers clothes.
    Colonists petitioned,
    Angry letters written,
    To get the act repealed.

  • The Townshend Act

    The Townshend Act
    Digital History
    The Townshend Act taxed imports such as lead, glass, and flint. The colonists came to an official agreement called the non-importation agree. Colonists did not import from Britian and instead smuggled goods.

  • The Boston Massacre

    The Boston Massacre
    Boston Massacre Files
    The Boston Massacre ocurred on King Street, Boston, MA. A group of British soldiers fired into an unarmed, angry mob of colonists. Five colonists died in the attack, and the soldiers were arrested.

  • The Tea Act

    The Tea Act
    SS For Kids
    In this act Britian had everyone's interests at heart,
    But colonists did not understand, they were to far apart
    A tax of three pence a pound on tea
    Less expensive, but it was only the tax the colonists did see.
    All tea trade controlled by British East India Company
    They got rich, a monopoly.
    Colonists responded with a Tea Party
    Where colonists threw taxed tea in the sea.

  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    Jigsaw
    An act called the Tea Act taxed things like tea,
    Colonists responded with the Boton Tea Party
    Where they through the taxed tea into the sea.
    This event was organized by the Sons of Liberty.

  • Intolerable/Coercive Acts

    Intolerable/Coercive Acts
    TeachingAmericanHistory.org
    The harbor of Boston is blocked by Brits
    Until money for tea from Bostonians they get.
    Trials moved to the Mother Country
    Now more colonists guilty there will be.
    The reponse is the Continental Congress.

  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress
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    Colonists angry over Intolerable Acts
    So some men got together to review all the facts
    What should we do? they asked each other
    There they dclared themselves Americans, brothers.
    They decide to train an army to fight
    For bloodshed and violence were in sight.

  • Paul Revere's Ride

    Paul Revere's Ride
    Account of Midnight Ride-Written by Paul Revere!
    Paul Revere, Dr Sam Prescott, and Billy Daws
    Rode into the nights waiting jaws
    To deliver a message far and wide
    "The Regulars are coming," they'd shout as their horses rode by.
    Robert Newman hung lanterns for all to see
    In the Old North Church, the belfry
    Said Revre famously,
    "One if by land, two if by sea."

  • Lexington and Concord

    Lexington and Concord
    BritishBattles.com
    The "Shot heard round the world" it's called
    It started the war in which the British would fall
    No-one knows who fired the first shot
    It started the war for a land of our own- which we got!
    At the Old North Bridge in Lexington
    77 colonists did not have fun
    It was them versus 7,000 thousand regulars
    But the colonists were not deterred

  • Lexington and Concord (continued)

    Lexington and Concord (continued)
    They retreated to Concord for reinforment
    For that is where the colonies' munitions went
    The colonists sent the British back to Boston.
    This is how the War of Independence did begin!