Road to revolution timeline

Road to Revolution Timeline

  • French and Indian War

    French and Indian War
    The the French and Indian War was the final Colonial War. the war took place from 1754-1763. the British victory in the French and Indian War impacted, on impact was that there was a great expansion of British territorial claims in the New World.
  • Proclamation

    Proclamation
    <a href='http://https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proclamation' the>proclamation</a> was issued by King Gorge the third, following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War.
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    the sramp act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The stamp act was an act for granting and applying certain stamp duties, and other duties, in the British colonies and plantations in America, towards further defraying the expenses of defending, protecting, and securing the same; and for amending such parts of the several acts of parliament relating to the trade and revenues of the said colonies and plantations, as direct the manner of determining and recovering the penaltie
  • Townshend Acts

    Townshend Acts
    townshend acts were acts passed by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. The acts are named after Charles Townshend who proposed the program.
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/massacre.htmBoston Massacre was the name of a street fight. People in this street fight threw snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers.
  • Tea Act

    Tea Act
    tea actThe Tea Act was the final straw in a series of unpopular policies and taxes imposed by Britain on her American colonies.The tea tax was kept in order to maintain Parliament’s right to tax the colonies. The Tea Act was not intended to anger American colonists, instead it was meant to be a bailout policy to get the British East India Company out of debt.
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773.The Tea Party was the culmination of a resistance movement throughout British America against the Tea Act, which had been passed by the British Parliament in 1773.The Boston Tea Party was a key event in the growth of the American Revolution.The Boston Tea Party arose from two issues confronting the British Empire in 1765.
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts
    The Intolerable Acts were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor.The acts took away Massachusetts' self-government and historic rights, triggering outrage and resistance in the Thirteen Colonies.