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Road to the Revolution

  • French and Indian War

    French and Indian War
    French and indian war The French and Indian war was between the French and the Britch. The french had a lot of Indian allies. The British only has colonial militia and a few Indian allies. The British won, they were in a lot of debt because of the war. The British wanted the colonies to pay for the debt they were in by paying more taxes.
  • Sugar act

    Sugar act
    The british passed the Sugar Act, with the goal of raising 100,000 pounds, an amount equal to one-fifth of the military expenses in North America. The people in the colonies were worried that Britain would start making them spend more and more money for their goods through taxes.
  • Declaratory Act

    Declaratory Act
    Declaratory Act
    The Declaratory Act was a gesture of British Parliament reasserting its authority to pass taxes and laws on the colonies, even though they lacked any representation
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    video British troop were sent to Boston to enforce taxs measures passed by a British parliament without direct American representation.
  • Introlerable Act

    Introlerable Act
    On March 5, 1770, Parliament repealed the duties, except for the one on tea
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    The bosten tea party is when the colonist didn't want the britsh to keep rasing taxes so they dumped all the tea to prove a point.
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence
    Declaration of Independince The American's were fighting agenst the British so the americans can win their independents, the congress adopted the Declaration of Independints it was written by Thomas Jefferson.