road to revolution

  • Navigation Acts

    Only English ships would be able to bring goods into England and North American colonies could export its raw materials
  • Proclamation of 1763

    prohibited American colonies from settling on lands acquired from the French following the French and Indian war
  • End of Salutary Neglect

    when the British stared reinforcing tax and restrictions polices in the following french and lindan war.
  • sugar act

    cut the duty on foreign molasses from 6 to 3 pence per gallon, retained a high duty on foreign refined sugar, prohibited the importance of all foreign rum
  • Sons of Liberty

    issued a call for boycott
  • stamp act

    The Stamp Act helped pay for British troops stationed in the colonies during the Seven Years' war.
  • Townshend Acts

    to help pay the expenses involved in governing the American colonies, which initiated taxes on glass,lead, paint, paper, and tea
  • Boston massacre

    political tensions between British soldiers and American colonists turned deadly
  • Boston tea party

    american political and mercantile protest on December 16.