the road to Independence

By Lucyap15

  • George lll Becomes King England

  • Second Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia

  • the stamp act

    this act required colonists to pay taxes. A stamp represented these taxes .

  • Stamp act Congress meets in New York City

  • Parliament passed the Townshend acts

    The Townshend Act put taxes on glass, lead, paint, and paper.

  • The Boston Massacre

    British soldiers fought colonists. The foundation of American independence was laid.

  • The Coercive Acts

    4 laws passed by the parliament to punish the colony for the Boston Tea Party.

  • First Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia

  • The olive branch petition

    a petition that was sent to the king to attempt to prevent a war.

  • First shots of American Revolution

    Marks the start of the American War of Independencece.

  • The Boston Tea Party

    This was a protest against British parliamentary taxes. they threw a chest of tea into the ocean.

  • The Adoption of the articles of confederation

  • The Adoption of declaration of Independence

    The founding document of the USA.

  • Treaty of Paris signed