Road to the Revolution

  • Start French and Indian War

    Start French and Indian War
    The war was a war that alot of soliders died in.
  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763
    In 1763, at ethe end of the French and Indian War, the British came up with a proclamation,mainly imade to explain the Indians by checking the show of settlers on their lands.
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    The Stamp Act of 1765 was the first internal tax made directly on American colonists by the British government.
  • Townshed Acts

    Townshed Acts
    A series of measures introduced into the English settlement by Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshend in 1767, the Townshend Acts made duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea ported into the colonies.
  • Boston Massacre

    he Boston Massacre happened on March 5, 1770. A squad of British soldiers and settlers had a fight because of the other people throwing the snowballs.
  • Tea Act

    Tea Act
    The Tea Act of 1773 was one of several makes imposed on the American colonists by the heavily indebted British government in the decade leading up to the American Revolutionary War (1775-83).
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    Seeking to boost the troubled East India Company, British Parliament adjusted import duties with the passage of the Tea Act in 1773.
  • Intolerable Acts

    The government spent huge sums of money on troops and equipment in an attempt to beat Massachusetts.
  • Lexington and Concord

    The Battles of Lexington and Concord, fought on April 19, 1775, kicked off the American Revolutionary War (1775-83).
  • Decleration of Independence

    Decleration of Independence
    When armed conflict between war of American colonists and British soldiers began in April 1775, the Americans were crazy fighting only for their rights as subjects of the British crown.