America

Road to revolution

  • navigation acts

    navigation acts

    These are a set of laws that were passed by the English parliament to enforce the colonists to sell all raw materials to England, even though colonists could possibly find better prices elsewhere in Europe
  • molasses act

    molasses act

    taxes on all sugar products
  • fort necessity

    fort necessity

    a fort made by goerge washinton and they surrendered in battle the fort
  • French and Indian war

    French and Indian war

    A war between France and Virginia that lasted five years, and the war was over after 7 years. They fought over land
  • Sugar act

    Sugar act

    Lowering of taxes to make colonists stop smuggling goods
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

    A small tax on all printed materials
  • declaratory acts

    declaratory acts

    the Parliament has the right to tax and make decisions for British colonies in all cases
  • townshed act

    townshed act

    external taw on imported goods that made the colonist mad
  • boston massacre

    boston massacre

    When colonists attacked the governor's house British soldiers were sent to protect, but were ordered not to fire. Then, when the colonists started throwing things at them, one of them accidentally fired then they all started to fire. 5 died, and 3 were injured
  • Paul reveres ride

    Paul reveres ride

    The night of April 18th, 1775, dr joseph Warren, a colonial protest leader, noticed troops marching out of the city and alerted Paul Revere and William Dawes. Paul spread the news all across Boston and farther on his horse a "the British are coming." But got caught by britsh troops
  • Intolerable acts

    Intolerable acts

    removed local government and replaced it with a Crown-appointed military governor and Closed Boston Harbor until reimbursement of the 342 chests of tea that were dumped into the harbor The British now run the Boston
  • quartering acts

    quartering acts

    Permitted the requisition of unoccupied buildings to house British troops at the colonists' expense, although it did not require soldiers to be quartered in private homes
  • Administration of Justice

    Administration of Justice

    British officials charged with a capital offense had to be tried in another colony or England
  • Quebec Act

    Quebec Act

    a government for Canada was created and extended its territory all the way south to the Ohio River, and the colonists were trapped
  • first continental congress

    first continental congress

    In a warm September of 1774, 55 delegates gathered together to create a political body. They discussed their grievances against the British and then voted. They declared the 1 acts of Parliament a violation of laws of nature, the principles of the English constitution, and several charters. Georgia didn't have any representatives
  • battles of Lexington and concord

    battles of Lexington and concord

    The British Governor General Thomas Gage of Boston had been ordered by Parliament to seize weapons and lead the militia to victory and Francis Smith takes 700 troops to Concord, where they will seize and destroy all the artillery and ammunition you can find. 70 minutemen were waiting for the 700 English redcoats the morning of April 19th, 1775
    An unknown shot was fired, and both sides engaged 174 were wounded, and 73 dead-18 colonists wounded.
  • olive branch petition

  • Benedict Arnold failed to take Quebec

  • Washington takes Boston

  • Hessian Soldiers are hired by King George III

  • general gage takes over Boston

  • DOI is signed