Road to Revolution

Proclamation of !763

Oct 7, 1763

Prohibited settlers from settling the area beyond the Appalachian Mountains to the west

Sugar Act

Apr 5, 1764

First ever law passed for tax revenue on the colonists

Stamp Act

Mar 22, 1765

Raide revenues to support military force

Quartering Act

May 3, 1765

Colonists forced to provide quarters and food for British troops

Stamp Act Congress

Oct 25, 1765

Brought together in New York City 27 distingushed delegates delegates from 9 colonies

Declaratory Act

Mar 18, 1766

reaffirming Parliment's right to bind the colonies in all cases whatsoever

Townshend Act

Jul 2, 1767

New regulations on imports of glass, white lead, paper, paint, and tea.

Boston Massacre

Mar 5, 1770

Colonists taunted the red coats so they shot them

Committies of Correspondence

Mar 14, 1772

Samuel Adams signaled contribution was to an organization to organize in Massachusetts

Boston Tea Party

Dec 16, 1773

Bostonians dressed up as Indians and threw british tea in the harbor

Intolerable Act

Mar 24, 1774

Most drastic of all the Boston port act. Cloesed the tea harbor till damages and order could be insured

Quebec Act

Jun 22, 1774

recieved royal assent

First Continental Congress

Oct 26, 1774

was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution.

Lexington and Concord

Apr 19, 1775

First military engagement of the revolutionary war

Americas independence

Jul 4, 1776

Colonist were delcared free from british rule and can start their own country