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The Road to The Revolution

  • The Virgina Company of London founds the first English colony in North America: Jamestown, Virginia.

  • Virginia becomes a Royal Colony.

  • Beginning of the English Civil War between supporters of the king and supporters of the Parliment.

  • English Monarchy is restored under Charles II.

  • Navigation acts of 1663 requtire that most imports to colonies must be transported to england on English ships.

  • British Navigation Act of 1673 sets up a customs office to collect duties on goods that pass between plantations.

  • Suger act England taxes suger, molasses, wine, and coffee coming into the colonies to help pay for colonial military costs.

  • -The Stamp act requires Englands American colonists to pay for a tax stamp on printed material. A group called the "Sons of Liberty" forms to fight taxation without representaion. -The Quarting requires Colonial Communities to provide food and shelter for

  • Repeal of Stamp Act.

  • Townshend acts Tax tea, glass, lead, paint and other items imported into the colonies.

  • Two Milion people are living England's American colonies . Five Americans are killed by British soldiers in the "Bosten Massacre."

  • Bosten Tea Party: A protest against taxation

  • The Coercive Acts or known to as Americans as the Intolerable Acts, Are Enacted. As a result, Boston harber is blockaded, shutting down trade and the activitieds of the Massachusetts legislature are restricted. Meeting of the Continental Congress in which