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End of the French and Indian war
The French and Indian war was a war fought over the land in the Ohio River Valley. It was fought by the French and the British. The war lead to debt and debt lead to taxing the colonies. -
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Road to Revolution
The road to Revolution was the acts and taxes that made the colonists angry so they rebelled. -
Proclomation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 banned all colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains because they could not defend them from the French. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act taxed sugar, molasses and other imported goods.this was the birth of the saying ''Taxation without Representation is tyrannny." -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act allowed soldiers to stay in any private home they wanted. The owners of the house had to feed the soldiers. Some colonists refused to house the soldiers. -
Stamp Act
All legal documents were taxed. This included things like diplomas, contracts, newspapers, aand even playing cards. They all had to get a certain stampto be legal. this act was gave birth to the Sons of Liberty who burned any documents with the stamps on them and would tar and fether the officials. -
Townshed Acts
The Townshend acts allowed the British to tax all imported goads including lead, tea, glass, etc. The Writs of Assistance allowed British customs officials to search ships for smuggled goods. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was when Brittish soldiers fired on angry colonists. Colonist were throwing snow, rocks, and hitting people with sticks. -
Tea Act
The http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/wwww/us/teaactdef.htmmade sure that all tea was bought from the British East Indian Company. This Act also put a three pence per pound tax on tea. This angered the colonies so much that they decided to boycott tea. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was when the colonists were so fed up with the tax on tea (3 pence a pound) that they threw all of the tea was being shipped into Boston into the harbor. They threw 45 tons of tea worth of 10,000 pounds (which is worth about 1,000,000 dollars in today’s money). -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts closed the port of Boston until the tea was paid for. It also moved all trials to England, and banned town meetings. It also strengthened the Quartering Act. -
First Continental Congress
The first Continental Congress was when all of the colonies except for Georgia sent representitives to decide weather they should go to war or not. -
The Midnight ride of Paul Revere
The midnight ride of Paul Revere was when Paul Revere road to Lexington then on to Concord shouting “The regulars are coming.” This warned the minutemen that they needed to get ready to fight the British. -
Lexington and Concord
The battle of Lexington and Concord was the first Battle of the Revolutionary war. The British were trying to confiscate the colony’s weapons but the colonist stopped them at Concord.
