road to revolution (Nolan Comparin)

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  • Treaty of Paris

    Ended the seven years war between Great Britain and France.

  • Proclamation Act

    Forbade colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.

  • Sugar Act

    Act made colonial merchants pay import tax on foreign molasses.

  • The Stamp Act

    Act taxed colonists on every piece of printed paper they used.

  • The Quartering Act

    Act made colonists provide to British soldiers such as shelter and food.

  • Sugar Act Congress

    First gathering representatives in October 1765 in new york.

  • Declaration of Rights and Grievances

    Declared that taxes imposed on British colonists without their consent was unconstitutional.

  • Stamp Act Repealed

    After many protests, the stamp act was repealed.

  • Declaratory Act

    Act stating British taxing authority is the in America as in Great Britain

  • Townshend Acts

    Series of British acts passed beginning in 1767.

  • Boston Massacre

    British army soldiers shot and killed while being attacked by a mob.

  • Committee of Correspondence

    Group that rallied colonial opposition against British policy and established a political union among the 13 colonies.

  • Tea Act

    Act was to reduce the massive amount of tea in warehouses it Britain and store them in America.

  • Boston Tea Party

    Protest by sons of liberty in Boston where crates of tea were thrown into the Boston harbor in protest of the tea act.

  • Intolerable Acts

    Punitive laws passed by the British in response to the Boston tea party.

  • 1st Continental Congress

    Meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies who met Sept. 9 1774 to Oct. 26 1774

  • Lexington & Concord

    Lexington & Concord were the first military engagements of the revolutionary war.

  • Bunker Hill

    Battle fought during the siege of Boston in the early stages of the revolutionary war.

  • Olive Branch Petition

    Petition saying the colonies wanted peace between them and England.

  • Common Sense Phamplet

    Pamphlet written my Thomas Paine advocating independence from Great Britain to the people of the 13 colonies.

  • Declaration of Independence

    Document saying Americans were no longer under British rule.