Road to Revolution

  • Navigation Act

    Navigation Act
    The Navigation Act is were the law guaranteed them a place were the would sell all their raw materials to England.
  • Molasses Act

    Molasses Act
    British law passed that taxes molasses. Sugar imported into the North American colonies from non- British countries
  • Fort Necessity

    Fort Necessity
    George Washington set up the Fort Necessity and it was an outpost for the battle
  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act
    Would lower the price, and encourage more people to buy
    Encourage Colonists to stop smuggling
    It also allowed officers to seize accused smugglers goods without going to court
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    Internal Act is an act that added a small tax on all printed materials like Newspaper, Wills, Playing Cards, and Documents, etc
  • Declaratory Act

    Declaratory Act
    Parliament has the right to tax and make decisions for British colonies in all cases
  • Townshend Act

    Townshend Act
    The Townshend act was an External tax (tax on imported goods) Glass, Lead, Paper, Tea, and Paint
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    The Massacre was the red coats and colonists fighting because the colonists were throwing rocks and ice at the red coats. One of the red coats fell and his gun shot so then all the other red coats started firing.
  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress
    colonial legislatures empowered delegates to attend a Continental Congress which would set terms for a boycott
  • Generals Gage takes over Boston

    Generals Gage takes over Boston
    he took over the governor position of Massachusetts, replacing the unpopular Thomas Hutchinson
  • Intolerable Act

    Intolerable Act
    It was a series of laws passed by the British Parliment.
  • Administration of Justice

    Administration of Justice
    British officials charged with capital offenses had to be tried in another colony of England
  • Quebec Act

    Quebec Act
    Was procedures for governance
  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act
    A government for Canada was created and extended its territory all the way south to the Ohio River
  • Paul Revere's ride

    Paul Revere's ride
    Revere and Dawes rode to Lexington, a town east of Concord, spreading the news - “The British are coming!!”
    A British Patrol would later capture Revere, and Dawes would turn back. The message is carried to Concord by Samual Prescott
  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

    Battle of Lexington and Concord
    It was at the North Bridge that Colonist engage in Guerrilla Warfare, chasing the British all the way back to Boston
    By the time the redcoats reached Boston, 174 wounded and 73 dead
    18 Colonist wounded
  • Fort Ticonderoga

    Fort Ticonderoga
    built by the French at a narrows near the south end of Lake Champlain in northern New York
  • Second Continental Congress

    Second Continental Congress
    established a Continental army and elected George Washington as Commander-in-Chief
  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    Battle of Bunker Hill
    After seeing this and forming a plan, the British attacked the next day
    Redcoats assembled at the foot of Breed’s Hill, with fixed bayonets, and charged the hill
    The Militia was low on ammunition, and so Colonel Wiliiiam Presscott gave the order, “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes.”
  • Olive Branch Petition

    Olive Branch Petition
    to be sent to the King as a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared
  • Benedict Arnold failed to take Quebec

    Benedict Arnold failed to take Quebec
    During the siege, disease and the harsh winter weakened Arnold's forces. Despite their best efforts, the ineffectiveness of the siege coupled with the arrival of British reinforcements forced the Patriots to retreat from the city
  • Washington takes Boston

    Washington takes Boston
    American General George Washington had the artillery he needed to force the British out of Boston
  • Hessian Soldiers are hired by King George III

    Hessian Soldiers are hired by King George III
    Jefferson was outraged that the king would hire Hessian mercenaries to suppress British subjects.
  • DOI is signed

    DOI is signed
    at the Pennsylvania State House, later renamed Independence Hall, in Philadelphia 2 future presidents signed it