Road to Revolution

By bettywhite420

  • French and Indian War (1754-1763)

    American Colonists, with the help of the French waged a war against the Indians. After counquoring, the redcoats stayed in the colonies for protection which lit a very small but important spark into the American Revolution.

  • Currency Act 1764

    Act in which the British placed upon the American's where the colonists could not print off anymore money within the states.

  • Stamp Act 1765

    Imposed a direct tax on the colonies and forced colonies to print pretty much everything on stamped paper that was made in London and shipped to the colonies.

  • Quartering Act 1765

    British troops were allowed to be housed in the American colonies when the barracks could not house them all. Any household could take in soldiers, including taverns and lodges which hurt local business in colonial Boston.

  • Townshend Act (1767)

    A series of laws passed by the British government on the American colonies. Britain placed new taxes and took away some freedoms from the colonists including: Taxes on imports of paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea.

  • Boston Massacre (1770)

    British soldiers shot and killed five people known at the time but recently uncovered there were six killed, They shot and killed the Americans after being harrassed by their angry mob being angry over the closure of the harbor and the loss of many jobs.

  • Tea Act (1773)

    Tea would be shipped directly to the colonies instead of to England which in return imposed a large tax on the colonists directly. This was greatly unwanted and widely unpopular in the colonies.

  • Boston Tea Party (1774)

    In response to the Tea Act, a mob of colonists boarded a vessel and threw an estimated in today's money 1.7 million dollars of tea into the ocean turning the water brown.

  • Intolerable Acts (1774)

    An act placed by Britain in response to the Boston Tea Party, this was to punish the colonists and punish America. This act was placed to restrict America from being America, Britain wanted complete control.

  • 1st Continental Congress (1775)

    After the intolerable acts the 1st Continental Congress organized a protest against the British government and any and all acts it made against the American Colonies.