Road to Revolution

  • French and Indian War

    it was a war between British America and those of New France each side supported by military and Indian allies
  • Proclamation of 1763

    it was a proclamation issued by King George III after the the Seven Year War It forbade settlement west of a line as an Indian Reserve.
  • sugar act

    also called Plantation Act was British legislation trying to end the smuggling trade of sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West
  • Stamp Act of 1765

    was an Act made by the Parliament of Great Britain witch put a tax on many printed materials for the British colonies in America
  • Townshend Acts

    it was laws passed by the British government on the American colonies that put new taxes and took away some freedoms
  • The Boston Massacre

    it was when British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston
  • Tea Act

    was an act that granted the company to ship tea directly ti the colonies without stopping in England first
  • Boston Tea Party

    it was a political protest by the sons of liberty in Boston
  • Intolerable Acts

    laws set by the British parliament after the Boston tea party
  • 1st Congressional Congress

    a meeting of 12 to thirteen colonies which became america