Timeline

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    road to revolution

  • Treaty of Paris

    Treaty of Paris

    The treaty of paris was signed to end the french and indian war
  • Royal Proclamtion of 1763

    Royal Proclamtion of 1763

    King George the 3 told the colonist that they couldn't settle west of the appalachian moutains
  • Tea Act

    Tea Act

    The king put a tax on tea to cover the cost of the french and indian war
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

    A tax on printed materials to raise money
  • Declaratory Act

    Declaratory Act

    Parliment passed this act stating that the stamp act to be repealed.
  • Townshend Acts

    Townshend Acts

    Parliment put out an act stating that glass, tea, paper, and lead are to be taxed.
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    An incedent in which soldiers opened fire on colonist killing a man named crispus attucks and four other colonist
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    The Son of Liberty dressed up like indians and threw tea over board
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts

    An act in which closed boston harbor
  • 1st Continental Congress

    1st Continental Congress

    55 delegates got together to discuss the problems with Britan. They wrote a document asking parliment to repeal 13 of the acts passed since 1763
  • Midnight Ride

    Midnight Ride

    Paul Revere, Wentworth Cheswell, and Williams Dawes went riding around Lexington and Concord warning the minute men that the british are coming
  • 2nd Continental Congress

    2nd Continental Congress

    The delegates got together to discuss their independence from Great Britain