American Revolution

  • War through such taxes

    War through such taxes
    Britain went in to dept. after the French and Indian war so they put taxes on British goods to earn it back
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  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763
    issued by King George III It recognized
    the Indians’ right to the land and it did not allow colonists to
    settle west of the Appalachian Mountains. King George III October 7, 1763
  • Stamp act

    Stamp act
    (Samuel Adams.) Parliament passed the law which taxed anything
    printed on paper by requiring colonists to buy a stamp so they could pay the debt of the French and Indian so
    they boycott items
    http://www.learnnc.org/
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    This deadly riot resulted in five colonists being killed
    the incident was used as propaganda. Attucks, Gray, Caldwell, Samuel Adams and
    John Adams. March 5, 1770
  • Tea Act

    Tea Act
    Parliament passed the Tea Act which made the British
    East India Company the only company allowed to sell
    tea to the colonies colonists were
    unhappy that they were forced to pay import taxes to Britain
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Act
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts
    were to make the colonists pay for the tea, it stooped all trade between Boston and Britain, did
    not allow town meetings
  • First Continental Congress

     First Continental Congress
    they met in Philadelphia at the First Continental Congress to discuss problems with Britain. along came Richard Henry Lee and Patrick Henry Samuel Adams and john Adams and George Washington https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Continental_Congress
  • second Continental Congress

    second Continental Congress
    they Declaring independence from Britain was off. Along with John and Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, Richard Henry Lee, and George Washington and new Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson ,john Hancock
  • Midnight Ride

    Midnight Ride
    (Revere, Cheswell , Dawes) Paul Revere was instructed to ride to Lexington, Massachusetts, to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British troops were marching to arrest them