Road to Revolution

  • Proclamation of 1763

    This proclamation limited settlement in the West for the colonists
  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act

    British place taxes on sugar and molasses
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

    British required all documents and legal papers to have a tax stamp on them
  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act

    Forced colonists to make their homes available to British soldiers
  • Stamp Act Congress

    Stamp Act Congress

    Colonists decided that they had the right to make laws for themselves
  • Townshend Act

    Townshend Act

    British put taxes on items such as paper, paint, lead and glass
  • Writs of Assistance

    Writs of Assistance

    Granted British search warrants that did not expire
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    Frightened British guards killed five colonists after being threatend
  • Tea Act

    Tea Act

    This act gives total control of the tea industry to the British
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    Colonists dressed up as indians and threw all of the British tea into the harbor in protest.
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts

    British passes many terrible acts to punish colonists for Boston Tea Party
  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress

    It was a meeting of many patriots who were unhappy with the Intolerable Acts
  • Edenton Tea Party

    Edenton Tea Party

    Women in North Carolina stop drinking tea in protest.
  • Lexington and Concord

    Lexington and Concord

    The colonists won the first Revolutionary War battle
  • Mecklenburg Resolves

    Mecklenburg Resolves

    The first " Declaration" of independence which occured present day Charlotte
  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    Battle of Bunker Hill

    Even though the colonists lost this battle, the British lost many troops
  • Second Continental Congress

    Second Continental Congress

    The earliest form of US government
  • Common Sense

    Common Sense

    Thomas Paine’s writings about why America should be independent
  • Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge

    Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge

    The colonists won this battle in NC, and convined other colonies to join the fight
  • Halifax Resolves

    Halifax Resolves

    Declared North Carolina's desire to be independent from Britain
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

    America officially declaring themselves free from Britain