Road to revolution

By T Blood

  • Proclamation Line

    Proclamation Line
    Forbid the Americans colonists to settle west of the Appalachian mountains.Was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America

  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    Tax placed on all goods by the British to help pay for the french and Indian war later repealed. British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents.

  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act
    This acts says colonists have to house and feed British troops. This act caused the Boston massacre

  • Declaratory Act

    Declaratory Act
    Stated parliament had the right to tax the colonists at anytime.

  • Townshend Acts

    Townshend Acts
    Series of acts passed beginning in 1767 by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. This act is named after Charles Townshend

  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    Incident where five colonist were killed by British soldiers. This happen because of the quartering act.

  • Committee of Correspondence

    Committee of Correspondence
    The Committees of Correspondence were shadow governments organized by the Patriot leaders of the Thirteen Colonies on the eve of the American Revolution.

  • Tea Act

    Tea Act
    The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company

  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    Incident where sons of liberty dumped large amounts of British Tea into the Boston harbor.

  • Intolerable or Coercive Acts

    Intolerable or Coercive Acts
    Also known as the Coercive Acts a series of British measures passed in 1774 and designed to punish the Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party.

  • "Shot Heard Around the World"

    "Shot Heard Around the World"
    Referred to the first shot of the American Revolutionary War. A phrase from a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson about the Battle of Lexington and Concord.

  • Common Sense

    Common Sense
    Is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies

  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence
    The formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain.