Road To Revolution Timeline

  • The french and Indian War

    The french and Indian War
    When France's Combinded into the Ohio River it brought fighting with the claims of the British colonies, a bunch of battles led to the British Decleration of War in 1756. Britian's economy was suffering because of the debt caused by the war, which led to taxation that made the colonists mad in the begining.
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    www.history.org/history/teaching/tchcrsta.cfmThe New Tax was imposed on all american colonists and made them to pay a tax on every piece of paper that they use.The Stamp Act however, was a direct tax on the colonists and led to an comotion In America over an issue that was to be a major cause of the Revolutionary War.
  • Proclomation of 1763

    Proclomation of 1763
    http://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/1763-proclamation-of
    In 1763, at the end of the French and Indian War, the British called for a proclomation, mainly to conciliate the Indians by checking the number of settlers on their lands. in the centuries since the proclomation, it has become one of the cornerstones of native American law In the United States and Canada.
  • Townshend Act

    Townshend Act
    www.britannica.com/event/Townshend-Acts
    In U.S. colonial history, series of 4 acts passed by the british parliament as an attempt to leave what it considered to be its historic right to have authority over the colonies through suspension of represenative assembly and through strict provisions for the collection revenue duties.
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/massacre.htm
    It was a street fight that was between a "patriot Mob", Throwing snowballs, stones, stones, and sticks, and a team of british soldiers. Several colonists were killed, and this led to a speech by writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry.
  • The Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party The Boston Tea Party was a protest by people in Boston on December 16, 1773. This act started the violent part of the revolutionary War. It was the first try of the colonists, to rebell with violence against their own government.
  • The Tea Act

    The Tea Act
    www.bostonteapartyship.com/the-tea-act
    The tea Act was the final straw in a series of unpopoular policies and taxes by Britian on the American Colonies. The policy ignited a "powder Keg" of opposition and resentment along American colonists and it was the starter of the Boston Tea Party. The Tea Act was one of several things that imposed on the American colonists by the mean and strict British Government.
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intolerable_Act
    The Intolerable acts was a term for a series of harsh laws passed by the british Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party.
  • Lexington and Concord

    Lexington and Concord
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles_of_Lexington_and_Concord
    This was the first military engangment of the Revolutionary War. The battle set off the outbreak of open armed conflict between Great Britian and thirteen of its own colonies. Tensions had been building for many years between residents of the thirteen American colonies and British Authorities.
  • Decleration of Independance

    Decleration of Independance
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence
    A statement adopted by the continental congress meeting which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britian, regarded themselves as thirteen independent states.