"Roads to Revolution"

  • Proclamation Line

    Proclamation Line

    Issued by King George 111 a line was drawn along the Appalachian Mountains to divide territory between French and British.
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

    Direct Tax on paper in the colonies just to make $$
  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act

    Coloniest had to house and feed British troops.
  • Declaratory Act

    Declaratory Act

    Act of the Parliament of Great Britain and it accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act.
  • Townshend Acts

    Townshend Acts

    direct tax on paint, glass, paper, paint, and TEA.
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    A mob surrounds a group of 9 British soldiers. Snowballs and insults are hurled leading firing from the british in result of 5 coloniest dead.
  • Committee of correspondence

    Committee of correspondence

    A shadow government organized by the Patriot leaders of the thirteen colonies.
  • Tea Act

    Tea Act

    British passed a law removing tax on British Tea and keep tax on colonial tea.
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    Dressed as indians colonist board an English ship in Boston Harbor and dumped 18,000 pounds of English tea into the water.
  • Intolerable or Coercive Acts

    Intolerable or Coercive Acts

    Result from the Boston Tea Party. King Geroge 111 closed the Boston Harbor. Invoke martial law in Boston.
  • "Shot heard around the World"

    "Shot heard around the World"

    when British troops are sent to confiscate colonial weapons, they run into an untrained and angry militia.
  • Common Sense

    Common Sense

    A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine which inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to fight for Independence from Britain.
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

    It was a document to declare independence from Great Britain.