Road to Revolution

  • French and Indian War

    The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war's expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution.
  • Proclamation of 1763

    on October 7, 1763,forbid all settlement west of a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains, which was delineated as an Indian Reserve.
  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act, also called Plantation Act or Revenue Act, (1764), in U.S. colonial history, British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies
  • Stamp Act of 1765

    Stamp Act was passed on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.
  • Townshend Acts

    The Townshend Acts were a series of laws passed by the British government on the American colonies in 1767. new taxes were placed
  • The Boston Massacre

    The Boston Massacre began the evening of March 5, 1770 with a argument between British Private Hugh White and a few colonists outside in Boston on King Street.
  • Tea Act

    Parliament passed the Tea Act in 1773. The act granted the company the right to ship its tea directly to the colonies without first landing it in England
  • Boston Tea Party

    political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Intolerable Acts

    The Intolerable Acts were laws by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The lawsmeant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation
  • 1st Congressional Congress

    British government on the colonies in response to their resistance to new taxes