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Road To Revolution

By Malik Brown

  • Proclamation Line

    Proclamation Line
    • Proclamation issued by: King George III of Great Britain
    • Proclamation issued following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America and the end of the French and Indian Wars
    • The Proclamation Line, or border, ran west of the Appalachian Mountains and south of Hudson Bay to Florida

  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act
    • Required the colonist to provide food and shelter to British soldiers.
    • The Colonial Reaction was resentment grew, forming the basis for the future 3rd Amendment to the US Constitution.
    • But now since its a Amendment you don't have to let soldiers stay with you or provide them food.

  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    • The Boston Massacre took place on the evening of March 5, 1770
    • Altogether 5 civilians were killed. Their names were Crispus Attucks, Samuel Gray, Patrick Carr, Samuel Maverick and James Caldwell
    • There were 4,000 British troops and about 20,000 residents at the time of the incident.

  • Townshend Acts

    Townshend Acts
    -The Townshend Acts were named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
    - Passed by parliament in 1767, placed on imported materials such as glass, lead, paint, and tea
    - Duties on all goods were repealed except for the duty on tea.

  • Committee of Correspondence

    Committee of Correspondence
    • Were the American colonies’ first institution for maintaining communication with one another.
    • In March 1773, the Virginia House of Burgesses proposed that each colonial legislature appoint a standing committee for intercolonial correspondence.
    • The Committees of Correspondence were the American colonies’ means for maintaining communication lines in the years before the Revolutionary War.

  • Tea Act

    Tea Act
    • The Tea Act imposed no new taxes
    • It gave a tea monopoly in the American colonies to the British East India Company
    • The Tea Act allowed the East India company to sell its large tea surplus below the prices charged by colonial competitors

  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    • The colonist group the Sons of Liberty organized the Boston Tea Party to protest the Tea Tax created by the British.
    • The import tax on tea imposed through the Tea Act was actually lower than what the colonists had already been paying.
    • Most American colonists consumed, on average, 2 to 3 cups of tea each day. This equaled approximately two million pounds of tea among 3 million colonists each year.

  • Intolerable or Coercive Acts

    Intolerable or Coercive Acts
    • The laws, that became known as the Intolerable Acts, were all passed in 1774 as British reprisals to the Boston Tea Party.
    • The first of the Intolerable Acts closed the port of Boston so tightly that the colonists could not bring hay from Charlestown to give to their starving horses
    • Four of the Intolerable Acts were specifically aimed at punishing the Massachusetts colonists for the actions taken in the incident known as the Boston Tea Party.

  • "Shot Heard Around the World"

    "Shot Heard Around the World"
    • Paul Revere and others made famous "Midnight Rides" ahead of the troops, warning the "BRITISH IS COMING !"
    • Is considered by many the start of the American Revolution
    • 400 minutemen attacked and chased the British back to Boston, killing 99 troops local militas surrounded British in Boston

  • Common Sense

    Common Sense
    • Thomas Paine wrote it
    • Was influenced by the Enlightenment ideas on natural rights and compact theory

  • Declaratory Acts

    Declaratory Acts
    • The Declaratory Act was a reaction of the British Parliament to the failure of the Stamp Act.
    • In 1766, after the repeal of the stamp act, the Declaratory Act was passed by the British Parliament to affirm its power to legislate the colonies
    • It stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain. Parliament had directly taxed the colonies for revenue in the Sugar Act (1764) and the Stamp Act (1765)

  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence
    • The Declaration of Independence was signed by 56 people to the Continental Congress
    • On July 4, 1776, the wording of the Declaration of Independence was approved and sent to the printer for publication.
    • The signers of the Declaration of Independence did not all sign on the same day.

  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    • The Stamp Act required various items such as licenses, documents, diplomas and nearly every paper item to be printed on stamped or embossed paper in the American colonies
    • The colonists were obliged to pay extra for things that were used on a daily basis, such as newspapers
    • The people who were most effected by the Stamp Act were lawyers, ministers, printers and merchants.