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Road to Rev.

  • Navigation Acts

    Navigation Acts

    The English government forced the colonies to send over the raw materials to England even if they could get a better price somewhere else.
  • Molasses Act

    Molasses Act

    British law that imposed a tax on molasses, sugar, and rum imported from non-British foreign colonies into the North American colonies.
  • Fort Necessity

    Fort Necessity

    Was formed by a militia and the leader was George Washington and he built it to fight against fort duquesne.
  • French and Indian war

    French and Indian war

    The french put up forts in the Ohio river valley so the British put up one fort and the french destroyed it and that started the seven year war
  • Sugar act

    Sugar act

    dropped the price of sugar because of the smugglers illegally selling sugar.
  • Stamp acts

    Stamp acts

    British taxed newspapers
  • Declaratory Acts

    Declaratory Acts

    Directly taxed the colonies for the sugar act and stamp act
  • Townshend Acts

    Townshend Acts

    The British government taxed paint glass, lead, paper and tea
  • The Boston Massacre

    The Boston Massacre

    Started as a snowball fight with kids then they threw a snowball at the redcoats then someone hit a redcoat and his gun discharged and all the redcoats fired. killing 5 and wounded 3.
  • DOI is signd

    DOI is signd

    DOI is signed and the colonist got there freedom
  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress

    A meeting that later became the DOI
  • General Gage takes over Boston

    General Gage takes over Boston

    General Gage takes over Boston to keep the colonist under control
  • intolerable acts

    intolerable acts

    A punishment for the Boston tea party which made the colonist hate the British even more than they did
  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act

    Made the colonists support the British with food and house by letting them sleep in their bed and eat their food.
  • Administration of Justice

    Administration of Justice

    Forced the colonist to stop the riots.
  • Quebec act

    Quebec act

    Gave the British control over the colonist land.
  • Paul Revere's Ride

    Paul Revere's Ride

    Paul revere rode to concord to warn the colonist about the attack
  • Battles of Lexington and Concord

    Battles of Lexington and Concord

    Battle which concord the British won and Lexington the Colonies won.
  • Fort Ticonderoga

    Fort Ticonderoga

    A fort for battle against the british
  • Second Continental Congress

    Second Continental Congress

    another meeting about the war and later became the DOI
  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    Battle of Bunker Hill

    it was the worst battle of revoltanary war. where a lot of people died
  • Olive Branch Petition

    Olive Branch Petition

    A petition to to the king to stop war
  • Benedict Arnold failed to take Quebec

    Benedict Arnold failed to take Quebec

    He fail to take over Quebec
  • Washington takes Boston

    Washington takes Boston

    Genaral Washington takes over Boston
  • Hessian Soldiers are hired by King George III

    Hessian Soldiers are hired by King George III

    hessian soldiers get hired to fight in the war