Road to Revolution

  • Stamp act

    The Stamp Act of 1765 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp
    • Material law tax on materials.
  • Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773.
  • first Continental congress

    On September 5, 1774, delegates from each of the 13 colonies except for Georgia (which was fighting a Native American uprising and was dependent on the British for military supplies) met in Philadelphia as the First Continental Congress to organize colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts.
  • Battle of bunker hill

    The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on June 17, 1775, during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War. The battle is named after Bunker Hill in Charlestown, Massachusetts, which was peripherally involved in the battle.
    • Paul revere helped with the warnings of the British. -Minute men fought during this battle.
    • Patriots people who followed and fraught
  • Olive branch petition

    final attempt by the colonists to avoid going to war with Britain during the American Revolution. It was a document in which the colonists pledged their loyalty to the crown and asserted their rights as British citizens.
  • writing and distribution of common sense

    Common Sense was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies.
  • Lexington and concord

    first battle of the american revolutionary war.
  • Declaration Of independence

    The United States Declaration of Independence is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia,
    • Thomas Jefferson signed this
    • Sam Adams signed it
  • Boston Massacre

    Time when the British were being rebelled on by the colonists
    • Loyalists people who were loyal to Britten.
  • creation of the second continental congress

    The Congress of the United States established by the new Constitution met for the first time at New York City's Federal Hall on March 4, 1789. ... The first law passed set oaths of office not only for Congress but for state legislators, Federal executive officers, and state and Federal judges.