Road to Revolution

  • Navigation Acts

    Navigation Acts
    This declared that only English ships would be allowed to bring goods into England, and that the colonies could only export its commodities
  • committees of Correspondence

    committees of Correspondence
    This was a way for colonial legislatures to communicate with their agents in London
  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763
    prohibited American colonist to settle on the new lands acquired from the French and Indian war
  • End of Salutary Neglect

    End of Salutary Neglect
    This policy effectively ended After the French and Indian war.And is a main cause of the American Revolution
  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act
    Retained a high duty of foreign refined sugar, and prohibited the import of all foreign rum
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    An act to raise money to pay for the army tax on all legal and official papers and publications
  • Sons of Liberty

    Sons of Liberty
    Were a loosely organized clandestine, political organization active in the 13 colonies to advance the rights of colonist and fight taxation from the British.
  • Townshend Act

    Townshend Act
    To pay expenses the government initiated tax on glass,lead,paint,paper and tea
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    When a British soldier shot into the crowd which led others to do the same killing several american colonist
  • Boston Tea party

    Boston Tea party
    A group of colonist sneaked onto a boat and dumped boxes of tea into the Boston river as a protest
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts
    Was a group of four acts: Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act and the Quartering Act
  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress
    Was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies held in Philadelphia
  • Olive branch petetion

    Olive branch petetion
    Was sent to the king as a last attempt to prevent war from being declared
  • second continental congress

    second continental congress
    Was a meeting of delegates from the 13 colonies that united in support of the American revolution and the Revolutionary war
  • Lexington and Concord

    Lexington and Concord
    Was a battle which started the American war of independence also called ¨ Shot heard ´round the world¨
  • Patrick Henry ¨ Give me Liberty of Give me Death¨ Speech

    Patrick Henry ¨ Give me Liberty of Give me Death¨ Speech
    Was a speech from Patrick Henry he gave in the second Virginia Convection to persuade the other delegates
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence
    is the founding document of the United States which declared them away from England
  • Thomas Paine ¨ Common Sense¨

    Thomas Paine ¨ Common Sense¨
    Is a 47 page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine helped sway the colonies toward independence with his persuasion