Road to revelation

  • 1. The French and Indian war

    the war started in 17754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. . it started because Great Britain wanted more land on north America.
  • 2. The Proclamation of 1763

    declared by the British crown at the end of the French and Indian War. the war started mainly intended to conciliate the Native Americans.
  • 3. The Sugar Act

    the sugar cat was enforced by the British to make the post-war economic depression worse. they made molasses from 6 to 3 pence per gallon.
  • Stamp Act of 1766

    the act made it so the British colonist had to pay tax for anything that had a red stamp on it.
  • Townshend Acts of 1767

    it added tax to glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea.
  • The Boston Massacre

    on 1770 colonist threw snowballs rocks and sticks at a squad of British soldiers. the British soldiers killed 5 colonist because they threw snowballs.
  • tea Act

    the act let the tea compony ship the tea to the colonist without having to stop in the UK first.
  • Boston Tea Party

    it was a political protest where all of the colonist threw all of Britons tea into the ocean because of how they where taxing them.
  • intolerable Acts

    it was four laws made by the British empire to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party.
  • 1st Continental Congress

    it was a boycott to refuse all of the British's goods until parliament should rescind the Intolerable Acts.