Road to Revolution

  • French and Indian War

    George Washington in 1754 surprise attacked a small French force in Jumoville glen which caused the french and idian war.
  • Proclamation of 1763

    separated the British colonies on the Atlantic coast from American Indian lands.
  • Sugar Act

    end the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses.
  • Townshend Acts

    The government took away freedoms and put taxes on new things.
  • Stamp act of 1767

    was a tax that American colinest had to pay for every piece of prited paper they got
  • The Boston Massacre

    A deadly riot on King street. People involved were American colonist and one Brit.
  • Tea Act

    It was a law passed so a company could ship tea.
  • Boston Tea Party

    American colonist dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor.
  • Intolerable Acts

    Laws passed by the British after the Boston tea party. The laws punnished Massichusite colonists.
  • 1st Congressional Congress

    The meating of the delegets that came from 12 of the 13 colonies.