The American Revolution

  • Navigation Act

    Navigation Act

    These acts were designed to tighten the government's control over trade between England, its colonies, and the rest of the world.
  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act

    Britain asked the colonist to host 1500 soldier.
  • French and Indian war

    French and Indian war

    The war was caused because of George Washington. He shot at a small group of Indian soldiers
  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act

    Forbid the other countries, but they could only trade with England.
  • Proclamation

    Proclamation

    Britain would not let the colonists do anything.
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

    You had to pay taxes for every paper you had.
  • Townshead Act

    Townshead Act

    By the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America.
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    Britain citizens were angry at the sight of the British soldiers.
  • The Committee of Correspondence

    The Committee of Correspondence

    Rallied colonial opposition against the British policy and established a political union.
  • The Tea Act

    The Tea Act

    Colonies had to pay the act to get the tea.
  • The Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party

    Response to the Tea act
  • The Intolerable Act

    The Intolerable Act

    Forced colonist to let soldiers stay in there hands.
  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress

    Was meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies.
  • The Battle Of Lexington And Concord

    The Battle Of Lexington And Concord

    British troops are sent to confiscate colonial weapons, they run into an untrained and angry militia. This ragtag army defeats 700 British soldiers and the surprise victory bolsters their confidence for the war ahead.
  • The Battle of Bunker Hill

    The Battle of Bunker Hill

    British defeated the Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill in Massachusetts.
  • Second Continental Congress

    Second Continental Congress

    Declined Americans
  • Sons/Daughter of Liberty

    Sons/Daughter of Liberty

    Women had to sign a pledge against drinking tea and quit buying British goods.
  • The Shot Around The World

    The Shot Around The World

    A phrase from a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson about the Battle of Lexington and Concord.