Road To Independence

  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763
    Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    They put taxses on all printed material
  • Declatory Act

    Declatory Act
    Parliament then agreed to repeal the Stamp Act on the condition that the Declaratory Act was passed. On March 18, 1766, Parliament repealed the Stamp Act and passed the Declaratory Act.
  • Townshed act

    Townshed act
    The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed, beginning in 1767, by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America.
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    The "RedCoats Fired at the colonist and 5 People Died
  • Tea Act

    Tea Act
    They put tax on tea and people boycotted
  • 1st Continetal Congress

    1st Continetal Congress
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    The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution.Image result for 1st continental congresswww.bostonteapartyship.com
    The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5 to October 26,
  • 2nd Continental Congress

    2nd Continental Congress
    second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.
  • Intolerable Act

    Intolerable Act
    The Intolerable Acts were passed in 1774 to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party. There were three major acts involved that angered the colonists
  • Midnight Ride

    Midnight Ride
    Paul Revere Was riding a horse and said that the britsh were comming
  • lexington and concord

    lexington and concord
    The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
  • treaty of paris

    treaty of paris
  • boston tea party

    boston tea party
    The Boston Tea Party (initially referred to by John Adams as "the Destruction of the Tea in Boston") was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773.