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The Road to Revolution
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Britain passes the Stamp Act
The sugar Act was just the first in a series of acts to increase tensions between the mother country and the colonies. In 1765,the parlliament passed the Stamp Act. This law required all legal and commercial documentsto carry an offical stamp showing that tax has been paid. -
Protesting The Stamp Act
Colonist protested, and boycotted British goods over the petition the king declared that stated the right to tax colonies went to colonial assemblies. -
Tools of protest
To protest the Townshed Acts, colonists announced another boycott the force driving the boycott was Samuel Adams. He tried to urge the colonist to continue to resist the British soliders. -
The reasons for protest
Protest broke out because of the news of the Townshed Acts.
The people of New York were angery because of the elected assembly was suspended. -
The Boston Massacre
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American Revolution
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Boston Tea Party
On this day a group of men disguised as Native Americans hopped aboard on three tea ships docked in Boston Harbor they destroyed 342 chest of Tea and this is what led to the colonists rejoicing -
The Intolerable Acts
In 1774, parliament passed a series of laws to punish the massachusetts colony and to serve as a warning to other colonies the colonists called this the intolerable acts. -
the First Continental Congress Meets
In September 1774 , delegates from all colonies from all colonies except Georgia met in Philadelphia. This meeting was called the "the First Continental congress meets. -
The Road to Lexington and Concord
70 militiamen led by Captin John Parker gathered in Lexington,Massachutes,a town near boston a miltia is a force of of armed civilians pledged to defend their community trained to ''act at a minute's''. -
The Declaration of Independence is signed
On this day congress adopted the document that proclaimed independece over Britain. It included preamable, the acts of the tyrannical king George,etc.
