The Road To Independence

By Jeremiahcd30

  • George III Becomes King England

  • Stamp Act Congress meet in NYC

  • The Stamp Act

    required colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, or paper, etc.

  • Parliament Passes the Townshend Act

    series of measures passed by British parliament that taxed goods imported to the American colonies.

  • The Boston Massacre

    a conforntation in boston where nine British soldiers shot several of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them verbally and throwing various projectiles.

  • The Boston Tea Party

    was an act of protest against on tea, so there was “no taxation without representation”

  • The Coercive Act

    this was 4 different laws to punish the the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party

  • First Shots of the American Revolution

    The first shots of the Revolutionary War were fired at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts, beginnings of Continental Army.

  • First Continental Congress Meets in Philadelphia

  • The Olive Branch Petition

    was sent by the King as a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared. This petition was sent to show their loyalty to the british crown and show that they have rights as british citizens

  • The Adoption of the Deceleration Of Independence

    the declaration of independence was to show that the people had a right to revolt against the government if they tried to take away there rights of freedom/independence.

  • The Adoption of the Articles of Confederation

  • Treaty Of Paris Signed