road to revolution

By jward281

  • Proclamation Line

    king George was the person who issued the proclamation. the proclamation affected a lot of colonies because people had to move from there areas

  • Stamp Act

    taxes placed on all paper goods by the British. that was to help out for the french and Indian war that was going on at the time.

  • Quartering Act

    when colonist have to feed and shelter British troops. The act stated that troops could only be quartered in barracks and if there wasn't enough space

  • Declaratory Act

    the right to tax any colonist anytime they want to. It stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain.

  • Townshend Acts

    direct tax on items such as paint, glass, paper, and tea. A series of measures introduced into the English Parliament by Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshend

  • Boston Massacre

    when five colonist were killed by British soldiers.the British soldiers were sent to enforce the Townshend Act.

  • Committee of Correspondence

    some individuals that kept everybody knowing what was going on around the colonies. this was put together after the Boston massacre event happened.

  • Tea Act

    The Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston.

  • Boston Tea Party

    colonist boarded an English ship in Boston harbor they dumped up to 18,000 pounds of tea into the water. the British passed a law that would take tax off British tea but not the colonial tea.

  • Intolerable or Coercive Acts

    this was passed to punish the colonist for the Boston tea party. there were also three more that the colonist were angered about.

  • Shot Heard Around the World

    when British troops marched to concord to capture colonial leaders and weapon. the first battles where in Lexington when the american and British soldiers meet up and fought.

  • Common Sense

    Paine's common force a break between the British. over 500,000 copies have been sold of the common sense

  • Declaration of Independence

    a document written by Thomas Jefferson declaring independence to the united state from great Britain. the Declaration of independence says all men are created equal