Road to Revolution

By Zachruston25

  • French and Indian war

    It determined the vast colonial territory North America

  • Proclamation 1763

    The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7 1763 by King George following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War.

  • Stamp Act

    an act of the British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents.

  • Townshend Acts

    The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed – beginning in 1767 – by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. The acts are named after Charles

  • Boston Massacre

    The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars on March 5, 1770. It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops.

  • Boston massacre

    The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars on March 5, 1770. It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops.

  • Tea Act

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

  • Boston tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party initially referred to by John Adams as the destruction of the Tea in Boston was a political protest by the sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16 1773.

  • Intolerable Acts

    The Intolerable Acts were the American Patriots term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists.

  • Lexington and Concord

    The first battle of the Revolutionary War, fought in Massachusetts on April 19, 1775. British troops had moved from Boston toward Lexington and Concord to seize the colonists.

  • Declaration of Independence

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