Road to revolution

Road to Revolution

  • French and Indian War

    French and Indian War
    The French were pushing to far into British territory. British constantly attacked the base. British didn't want other French in settlements to join the French so cast them out to other British colonies. New British leader saw problem as a good thing and used it to his advantage.
  • The proclamation

    The proclamation
    British boundary mark in the in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental divide on October 7, 1763. This prohibited Anglo-Americans from settling on land acquired by the French
  • The sugar Act

    The sugar Act
    The Sugar Act of 1764 was a law enacted by Britain to increase British revenues by preventing the smuggling of molasses into the American colonies and enforcing the collection of higher taxes and duties. These higher taxes were used to pay for the war.
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    act of the British Parliament in 1765 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. encouraged the revolutionary movement against the crown.
  • Townshend act

    Townshend act
    Townshend Acts were four laws passed by the British Parliament in 1767 imposing and enforcing the collection of taxes on the American Colonists. the American colonists saw the acts as an abuse of power. When the colonists resisted, Britain sent troops to collect the taxes.
  • The Boston Massacre

    The Boston Massacre
    British sentries guarding the Boston customs house shot into a crowd of civilians, killing three man and injuring eight, two of them mortally
  • Tea Act

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

    Boston tea party
    American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing "taxation without representation" duped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the Harbor
  • intolerable acts

    intolerable acts
    They are punitive laws passed by the British parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party.
  • 1st continental progress

    1st continental progress
    delegates discussed boycotting British goods to establish the rights of Americas and planned for a second continental congress.