Road To Revolution Timeline

  • navigation acts

    navigation acts

    the colonists at first accepted the Navigational Act because it promised them a place to sell raw materials.
  • molasses

    molasses

    it is a cheaper version of sugar. and it helped to keep it from clumping up and being salty
  • fort necessity

    fort necessity

    Fort Necessity was a place where the militia stayed to be ready to act.
  • french and indian war

    french and indian war

    this war was the french and the British fighting each other. the indians stayed netrul until the end when the choose the colonist cause they were winning.
  • sugar act

    sugar act

    it raised colonial money for the crown. the British goods were shipped to the colonies.
  • stamp act

    stamp act

    The Stamp Act 1765, also known as the Duties in American Colonies Act 1765, was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America
  • townshed act

    townshed act

    initiated taxes on glasses, lead, paint, paper, and tea. it helps to pay the expenses of governing.
  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act

    Quartering Act applied to all of British America and gave colonial governors the right to requisition unoccupied
  • boston massacer

    boston massacer

    8 people got injured
  • Intolerable

    Intolerable

    relating to or use force or threats.
  • Quebec Act

    Quebec Act

    Quebec Act, act of the British Parliament in 1774 that vested the government of Quebec in a governor and council and preserved the French
  • General Thomas Gage takes over Boston

    General Thomas Gage takes over Boston

    In early 1774, he was appointed military governor of Massachusetts
  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress

    they had delegates
  • Paul Revere's Ride

    Paul Revere's Ride

    he warned everyone that the british were coming
  • Battles of Lexington and Concord

    Battles of Lexington and Concord

    The Battles of Lexington and Concord, fought on April 19, 1775, kicked off the American Revolutionary War
  • Fort Ticonderoga

    Fort Ticonderoga

    The capture of Fort Ticonderoga was the first offensive victory for American forces in the Revolutionary War. It secured the strategic passageway north to
  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    Battle of Bunker Hill

    The American patriots were defeated at the Battle of Bunker Hill, but they proved they could hold their own against the superior British Army.
  • Second Continental Congress

    Second Continental Congress

    The Second Congress functioned as the de facto national government at the outset of the Revolutionary War by raising militias, directing strategy, appointing
  • olive branch petition

    olive branch petition

    the olive branch petition was adopted by Congress.
  • decloration acts

    decloration acts

    it was a Parliament against Great Britain. and to repel the Stamp Act.
  • Washington takes Boston

    Washington takes Boston

    it is the siege of Boston.
  • Hessian Soldiers are hired by King George III

    Hessian Soldiers are hired by King George III

    the Americans were out raged.
  • DOI is signed

    DOI is signed

    jefferson drafted the state meant.
  • boston tea party

    boston tea party

    it was a protest in December by the Sons of Liberty.