Steps to Revolutionary War

  • Albany congress

    Albany congress

    representatives from seven colonies met in Albany to get support from the Indians to fight the french
  • French Indian war

    French Indian war

    The British win against the colonists and the Indians to gain land and power in north america.
  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763

    the colonists were ordered to stay east of the Appalachian mountains so they could not settle any further
  • The Sugar Act

    The Sugar Act

    it was the first tax on the colonists that limited the rate of tax on molasses
  • The Stamp Act

    The Stamp Act

    the stamp act was important because it was a tax on the colonists that made the have a tax stamp in order for it to be shipped
  • The Quartering Act

    The Quartering Act

    the quartering act made people house British soldiers without their consent
  • The Stamp Act Congress

    The Stamp Act Congress

    representatives from 9 colonies worked together to get rid of the stamp act.
  • The declaratory act

    The declaratory act

    this gave British soldiers rights above the law. that made the colonists very stressed
  • the Town-shed act

    the Town-shed act

    it put tax on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea imported to the colonists
  • The Boston Massacre

    The Boston Massacre

    because of the town-shed act people rioted and they got executed
  • The Gaspee Affair

    The Gaspee Affair

    "HMS Gaspee was a British customs schooner that had been enforcing the Navigation Acts in and around Newport, Rhode Island"
  • the Tea act

    the Tea act

    it tried to reduce the amount of tea hey had
  • The Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party

    the colonists dressed up as Indians and dumped a lot of tea into the Boston Harbor.
  • The Coercive acts

    The Coercive acts

    they were a series of laws that punished the colonists for the revolt
  • The First Continental Congress

    The First Continental Congress

    all the colonies except Georgia met up at Philadelphia to discuss a way to get rid of the coercive acts.
  • The Association

    The Association

    Colonists boycotted trade with Britain
  • Galloway's plan

    Galloway's plan

    "it was a plan to politically unite Great Britain and its North American colonies."
  • Patrick Henry's "Give me liberty or give me death" speech.

    Patrick Henry's "Give me liberty or give me death" speech.

    "As the Virginia convention debated whether to send troops to fight in the Revolutionary War, Henry urged them to do so."
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    The Revolutionary War

    this was the war that the Colonists fought to gain independence from Britten. https://www.britannica.com/place/United-States/The-American-Revolutionary-War
  • The Declaration of Independence

    The Declaration of Independence

    this document stated that all men were created equally and had the rights to the pursuit of happiness, and life and liberty.