Road to Revolution

  • French and Indian war

    This war was between great Britain and France over the control of the Ohio River Valley. Known as the seven year war.
  • Proclamation of 1763

    It was after the seven year war that King George 111 made a proclamation line to separate the British colonies from American Indian lands, because they didn't want to go to war.
  • Sugar Act

    In grate Britain their taxing sugar to pay for the war with the Indians, even if people didn't didn't agree with this.
  • Stamp Act of 1765

    This was a law In New York to pay a tax on every piece of paper they got
  • Townshend Acts

    They were laws saying that important items such as paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea had to be taxed and the American colonists didn't like this idea.
  • The Boston massacre

    It was a street fight caused by the colonists that had enough of the new tax laws that they fought back the British solders, despite their efforts many didn't make it.
  • Tea Act

    It was a law made to lower the price of tea to help a company and to stop people from smuggled it.
  • Boston Tea Party

    It was a Protest by the American colonists to the British government. The protest was about tea being thrown overboard destroying so much tea.
  • Intolerable Acts

    This law was made to punish the ship carriers that had thrown the tea overboard In the Boston Tea party.
  • 1st Congressional congress

    The delegates came together to end what Britain was doing to the American colonists and end the way their were being treated, to ban British goods.

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