Events leading up to the American Revolution

  • Albany Plan

    Albany Plan
    A plan to create a unified government for the thirteen colonies.
  • French and indian war

    French and indian war
    North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War.
  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763
    It prohibited American colonist from settling west of Appalachia
  • Sugar act

    Sugar act
    ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies and at providing increased revenues to fund enlarged British Empire responsibilities following the French and Indian
  • stamp act

    stamp act
    It was an act to tax all paper cards and stamps then they made them have stamps on every paper
  • quartering act

    quartering act
    required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies.
  • townshend acts

    townshend acts
    a series of measures, passed by the British Parliament in 1767, that taxed goods imported to the American colonies
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    A street fight that occurred between a mob throwing snowballs stones and sticks at British soldiers
  • Intolerable acts

    Intolerable acts
    punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party.
  • 1st continental congress

    1st continental congress
    to organize colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts
  • Lexington and concord

    Lexington and concord
    the first battle of the revolutionary war
  • Boston tea party

    Boston tea party
    3 British ships in the Boston Harbor. The Boston Tea Party took place because the colonists did not want to have to pay taxes on the British tea