road to reveloution

By ethanblatter

  • French and Indian war

    French and Indian war
    War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. Indians were fighting to maintain control of their land and their cultural future. The French took the Upper Ohio Valley.

  • The Sugar Act

    What is the Sugar Act in simple terms?
    Enacted on April 5, 1764, to take effect on September 29, the new Sugar Act cut the duty on foreign molasses from 6 to 3 pence per gallon, retained a high duty on foreign refined sugar, and prohibited the importation of all foreign rum.

  • The Proclamation of 1763

    The Royal Proclamation is a document that set out guidelines for the European settlement of Aboriginal territories in what is now North America. The Royal Proclamation was initially issued by King George III in 1763 to officially claim British territory in North America after Britain won the Seven Years' War.

  • Stamp Act of 1766

    It was a direct tax imposed by the British government without the approval of the colonial legislatures and was payable in hard-to-obtain British sterling, rather than colonial currency.

  • Townshend Acts of 1767

    Townshend Acts. To help pay the lots of money involved in governing the American colonies, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts, which initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea.

  • The Boston Massacre

    The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. not good

  • Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped lots of chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.

  • tea Act

    In an effort to save the troubled enterprise, the British Parliament passed the Tea Act in 1773.

  • intolerable acts

    The Coercive Acts of 1774, known as the Intolerable Acts in the American colonies, were a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party.

  • 1st Continental Congress

    The primary accomplishment of the First Continental Congress was a compact among the colonies to boycott British goods beginning on December 1, 1774, unless parliament should rescind the Intolerable Acts.