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Road to Revalution
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Stamp Act
The stamp act was when Parliament taxed all paper like stamps, letters, & paper. Parliament taxed paper becausse Great Britian was in great dept after the French & Indian War. -
Townshed Act
Great Britian and Parliament started the Townshed Act to help them with the dept that they had. It taxed imported goods like glass, paint, & tea. -
Boston Massacre
A crowd of colinist gathered around an argument beetween a British soilders & a colinist because the colinist were insulting the soilders. So the British soilders started shooting and killed 5 and 1 of them was Cripus Attuck -
Committee of Correspondence
Samuel Adams & other colonial leaders started the "Committee of Correspondence" in 1772. It was a group that that meets to make decisions by writing letters. -
Boston Tea Party
The Psatriots were mad that Great Britian put a tax on the tea. So they dressed as Mohaxks Indians and dumped most of the tea in the Boston Harber. -
Coercive Act
Parlement passed the Coersive Act as a punishment for the Boston Tea Party. Colinist called it a the ''Intolerable Act" because it was severe. Parliment closed the Boston Port until the colinist paid for the tea they dumped -
Lexington & Concord
Colinist learned that British wanted to destroy all the weapons that the colinist had. So one night Paul Revere & William Dawes rode off to warn the colinist that the British were coming
