Road to revelotion

By Mckenzie.K

  • Sugar act

    The sugar act was an indirect tax on sugar.
    -Indirect tax (out of sight = out of mind)
    -Duties of molasses and sugar.

  • Stamp act

    -Tax on all paper products
    -Official stamp/seal on all paper items (proof tax was paid) - Purchased only with valuable silver coins -If you didn't purchase = fined or jailed.
    - Direct Tax (In your face tax)

  • Repealing stamp act

    Boycott
    Parliament agrees to repeal (get rid of) the stamp act

  • Townshend Acts

    Taxes on glass,lead,paints,paper, and tea
    Searched for smuggled goods

  • Colonist vs British troops

    soldiers strikers colonist
    Crowd gathers and hassles soldier, throwing snowballs and shouting insults
    More troops arrive, colonies get more and more angry
    “Fire if you dare.”
    This became the boston massacre

  • Tea act

    Passed in 1773 and allowed the British East India Company (BEIC) to sell tea directly to colonists.
    -Lower Prices than Colonist merchant prices
    - Tax Tea chapter then smuggled tea
    -Less smuggling=more tax money

  • Boston Tea Party

    Members of sons of liberty dump over 340 chests of tea into Boston Harbor
    Caused problems for the loyalists/Tories
    -Loyalist/Tory= a person in the Colony who remains “loyal” to the King & Great Britain.

  • Quartering acts

    This act allowed British troops to be housed in private homes and facilities. This Act was passed as part of the Coercive Acts in the wake of the Boston Tea Party.

  • Intolerable acts

    Passed to punish Boston for Tea Party
    Boston Harbor Closed until tea paid for
    Massachusetts Charter Canceled
    Quartering Act Required colonists to house soldiers
    “If a soldier comes knocking at the door…
    You’re sleeping on the floor.
    -General Thomas Gage because of the new governor of MA

  • First Continetal Congress

    The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British Colonies, that met to deal with the Intolerable Acts. Georgia was the only colony that did not send a representative to the Congress. They agreed to boycott British goods at first, if Parliment would not repeal the Intolerable Acts. Patrick Henry-VA rep. urged coloneist to unite against britian

  • First continental congress meets

    All colonies but georgia have representatives
    Voted to send a “statement of grievances”
    Voted to boycott all british trade
    Patrick Henry-VA rep. Urged colonists to unite against britain

  • 1000's of redcoats in Boston

    General Gage brings thousands of British soldiers to Boston with more on the way.

  • Midnight ride of Paul Revere

    Paul Revere rides to warn the sons of liberty in Lexington and concord that the British are coming.

  • Battles of lexington and Concord

    Battle of Lexington
    1st battle of American Revolutionary war
    Shot heard around the world-Ralph Waldo Emerson
    British victory
    Battle of concord
    Americans stop the British and force them to retreat back to Boston
    American victory

  • Capture of fort ticonderoga

    Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen capture the fort
    Get all the supplies in the fort including cannons
    American victory

  • The second continental congress meet

    Printed money
    Set up the post office
    Created the continental army lead by George Washington
    Sent Olive branch asking the King to protect their rights
    King hires 30,000 Hessians Soldiers in response

  • Battle of bunker hill

    Fought on breed’s hill
    Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes-William Prescott
    British victory (americans ran out of ammunition) British learn defeating americans would not be easy

  • Washington arrives on the outskirts of Boston with Continental troops

    Realizes men are disorganized and need discipline
    Need weapons

  • “Common sense” published by Thomas Paine

    Pamphlet inspires more colonist to become patriots
    “Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, ‘TIS TIME TO PART”-Thomas Paine, Common sense

  • British surrender Boston

    Washington believes his army is ready and weapons arrive
    Washington put cannons on Dorchester Heights overlooking Boston
    British retreat-American victory

  • The second continental congress meet again

    Debate on declaring independence
    Thomas Jefferson is the primary author of the document

  • The second continental congress votes for independence

    All 13 colonies vote YES on declaring independence

  • The declaration of independence is signed!

    The 4th of july!!!!