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Road to Revolution Conor and Sarah
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End of the French and Indian War
French and Indian War
The French and Indian war ends and it cost the British a great deal of money. This left them in debt. As a result Great Britain began to tax the colonists. The colonists were mad that they were taxed. The road to revolution has begun. -
The Proclamation of 1763
Proclamation of 1763
This banned the colonists from settling west of the line in the Appalachian Mountains and they can only be east of the line. The colonists believed they had a right to live where they pleased. They felt widley ignored because it was iimpossible for the British to enforce. -
Sugar Act
Sugar Act
Put a tax on sugar, molasses, and other things; included harsh punishments for smugglers. James Otis leads the phrase, "Taxation without representation is tyranny!" Colonists started to boycott British goods. Colonists sent a petition to England. -
Stamp Act
Stamp Act
Colonists had to buy an additional stamp for documents like wills, contracts, diplomas, newspapers, and even playing cards. This was an unfair tax that the had not input. The colonists demanded that the tax would be repealed. They burned stamps. Colonists held the Stamp Act Congress in New York City. -
Quartering Act
Quartering Act
Required colonists to house and feed British soldiers. The coonists fellt their rights as English citizens have been violated. Some colonists refused to let soldiers in their homes. -
Townshend Act
Townshend Act
Britain won't tax goods IN the colonies. Tax on imports to the colonies. The tax was on glass, paper, lead, tea, ect. The Writs of Assistance allowed British customs officials to search ships. The colonists knew this was still a tax. They felt their rights have been violated. The colonists smuggled goods into the colonies. They tried to reduce imports to the colonies. -
Boston Massacre
Boston Massacre
Colonist and British troops fought over the Townshend Acts. In the violence that followed, 5 colonist were killed. The Boston Massacre is viewed as a major event showing the growing tension between the colonists and the British. The colonists took this as a sign that the war was coming. This was the first act of violence towards the colonists. -
Tea Act
Tea Act
The British passed and act that said all tea in the colonies must be purchased from the British East India Company. The Tea Act helped the British get a monopoly of the tea sales in the colonies, 3 pence/ pound tax on the tea. The colonists reacted and planned for something coming up soon on this timeline. -
Boston Tea Party
Boston Tea Party
The British passed and act that said all tea in the colonies must be purchased from the British East India Company. To protest, the colonists snuck onto the ships at night, dressed as Indians, and threw the tea overboard. 116 people participated on the destruction of the tea, and this took 3 hours. This occurred at the Griffin's Wharf. There were 342 containers of tea and 45 tons. -
Coercive/ Intolerable Acts
Intolerable Acts
The British in response to the Boston tea party passed the Intolerable Acts. There was a naval blockade at the Boston Harbor until the tea was paid for. The British also banned the Committees of Correspondence. Also, all trials were moved to England. This also strengthened the Quartering Act. -
First Continental Congress
Continental congress
The Congress decided to ban all trade with England untill the acts were repealed. It also called on each colony to begin training a militia. -
Lexington and Concord
Lexington&ConcordBritish troops were sent to Concord to capture John Hancock and Samuel Adams, but both men had been warned about the British. British troops started to fire at the Minutemen. The British then charged with bayonets. Nobody knows who shot first. After this fight, the British found out that Hancock and Adams had escaped. These battles took many lives. This started The American Revolution. -
Paul Revere's Ride
Paul Revere's Ride In 1774 and the Spring of 1775 Paul Revere was employed by the Boston Committee of Correspondence and the Massachusetts Committee of Safety as an express rider to carry news, messages, and copies of resolutions as far away as New York and Philadelphia. Paul Revere was sent for by Dr. Joseph Warren and instructed to ride to Lexington, Massachusetts, to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British troops were marching to arrest them.
