Road to Revolution

By weirdruby77

  • French and Indian War

    An imperial war between North america the Great Britain and France

  • Proclamation of 1763

    It forbade all settlement west of a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains

  • Sugar act

    British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies and at providing increased revenues to fund enlarged

  • Stamp act of 1765

    Direct tax on the British colonies in America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London

  • Townshend Acts

    A series of laws passed by the British government on the American colonies

  • The Boston Massacre

    Description The Boston Massacre, known to the British as the Incident on King Street, was a confrontation on March 5, 1770 in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston. The event was heavily publicized by leading Patriots such as Paul Revere and Samuel Adams.

  • Tea Act

    In an effort to save the troubled enterprise, the British Parliament passed the Tea Act in 1773. The act granted the company the right to ship its tea directly to the colonies without first landing it in England, and to commission agents who would have the sole right to sell tea in the colonies.

  • The Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.

  • Intolerable Acts

    The Intolerable Acts were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British to the detriment of colonial goods.

  • 1st Congressional Congress

    The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States.