Road to Revolution 5.3 & 5.4

By stu.sheehanj

  • Sugar Acts

    Indirect tax (out of sight = out of mind)
    Duties on molasses and sugar

  • Stamp Act

    Taxes on paper products such as:
    Legal documents
    licenses
    Newspapers
    Pamphlets
    Playing cards
    and were purchased only with valuable silver coins and if thy weren't purchased, you would either be fined or jailed

  • Declaratory Act

    Parliament declares it has power to make laws for the colonies “in all cases whatsoever”
    Parliament passes this to save face

  • Townshend Act

    Taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea
    Searched for smuggled goods
    Sons of Liberty start to do violent acts
    British Soldiers arrived to protect tax collectors

  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    Protestors went at it with the Red Coats full of anger, throwing things at them and shouting insults,when the Red Coats killed 5 protestors.

  • The Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party
    Members of the Sons of Liberty had dumped 342 chests full of tea into the Boston Harbor

  • Intolerable Acts

    Passed to punish Boston for Tea Party
    Boston Harbor Closed until tea paid for
    Massachusetts Charter cancelled
    Royal officials had trial in Britain
    Quartering Act required colonists to house soldiers
    “If a soldier comes knocking at the door… you’re sleeping on the floor”
    Large amount of land given to Quebec
    General Thomas Gage became new governor of MA

  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress
    The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from the thirteen British Colonies, (except Georgia), to deal with the Intolerable Acts. They first thought to boycott British goods, if Parliament wouldn't repeal the Intolerable Acts.

  • 1,000's of Redcoat in Boston

    1,000's of Redcoat in Boston
    General Gage brings thousands of British soldiers to boston with more on the way.

  • Midnight ride of Paul Revere

    Midnight ride of Paul Revere
    Paul Revere rides to warn the Sons of Liberty in Lexington and Concord the "British are coming... The British are coming..."

  • Battles of Lexington & Concord

    Battles of Lexington & Concord
    Battle of Lexington
    1st battle of American Revolutionary War
    “Shot heard round the world” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
    BRITISH Victory Battle of Concord
    Americans stop British and force them to retreat back to boston
    AMERICAN Victory

  • Capture of Fort Ticonderoga

    Capture of Fort Ticonderoga
    Benedict Arnold & Ethan Allen capture the fort
    Get all supplies in the fort including cannons
    AMERICAN Victory

  • Second Continental Congress Meet

    Print $$$$
    Set up post office
    Created continental army led by george washington
    Sent olive branch asking king to protect their rights

  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    Battle of Bunker Hill
    Fought on Breed’s Hill
    “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes” - William Prescott
    BRITISH Victory ( americans ran out of ammunition) British learn defeating americans would NOT be easy