Road To Independence

By julienz

  • George III Became King England

  • The Stamp Act

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    Stamp Act Congress meets in New York City

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    Parliament Passes the Townshend Acts

  • The Boston massacre

    a confrontation in Boston in which nine British soldiers shot several of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them verbally and throwing various projectiles.

  • The Boston Tea Party

  • The coercive acts

    Coercive Acts, were a series of five punitive laws passed by the British Parliament.

  • First continental congress meets in Philadelphia

  • First shots of the american revolution

  • second continental congress meets in Philadelphia

  • The olive branch petition

    Was a final attempt to avoid war between Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies in America.