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Road to the Revolution 1760-1776

  • French and Indian War

    French and Indian War

    The war provided Great Britain with land, it was over North America.
  • Royal Proclamation

    Royal Proclamation

    A document that set out guidelines for European settlement of Aboriginal territories in what is now North America.
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

    They imposed taxes legal documents, newspapers, and playing cards. This is the first tax on American colonists and it is highly disliked.
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    It was a fight between a patriot mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers.
  • Tea Act

    Tea Act

    The British government granted the company a monopoly on the importation and sale of tea in the colonies.
  • The Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party

    The Boston tea party was a political protest against the taxes on tea.
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts

    This was to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party.
  • 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.
  • Patrick Henry’s “Give me liberty or give me death” speech

    Patrick Henry’s “Give me liberty or give me death” speech

    Historians say that Henry's “Liberty or Death” speech helped convince those in attendance to begin preparing Virginia troops for war against Great Britain.
  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

    Battle of Lexington and Concord

    Hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord in order to seize an arms cache.
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

    The 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain.
  • Treaty of Paris

    Treaty of Paris

    The Treaty of Paris ended the war after all of those years.