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Road to Revolution
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End of the French and Indian War
The war ended and the British were in debt because war is expensive. -
The Proclamation of 1763
King George the thrird said that colonists could not move west of the Appalachian Mountains but the colonists ingnored it and moved west anyway. -
Sugar Act
A tax on sugar and molasses. The colonists boycotted this and started saying " No taxation without representation". -
Stamp Act
Required special tax stamps for legal documents. The colonistists boycotted this, sent petitions to the king, smuggled more, and more had voilence. -
Quartering act
Forced the colonist to house the British soldiers but the colonists refused and were hostile to the soldiers. -
Townshend Act
A tax on imports like tea, glass, and paper. It allowed officers to use Writs of Assistnce to search colonial ships for smuggled goods. The merchants signed non- importation agreements and boycotted imported goods. -
Boston Mssacare
One day in Boston a mob of angry colonists were taunting British soldiers began pushing, shoving, throwing stones and ice. One soldier was knocked down and his gun went off and he said "Fire". The British opened fire killing five Bostonians. -
Tea Act
It allowed colonists to import tea tea straght from India but the British still put a small tax on the tea. The colonists reacted to it by the Boston Tea Party. -
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was when the sons of liberty dressed up as Mohawk Indians and went on the British ships and dumped all the tea in the Boston Harbor. -
The First Continental Congress
The meetingsoOf reps. from 12 of the 13 colonies was held in Phillidelphia, Pennslyvaniain, September, 1774. They disussed who to respond to the Intoerable acts. They demanded a repeal of Intolerable Acts. They told all colonies to train millitias. And they had more boycotts. -
Coercive/Intolerable Acts
Punishment of Massachusets for the Boston Tea Party. Banned town meetings, closed Boston Harbor until tea was payed for, and a new quartering act. the colonists were outraged, they felt the punishments were harsh. Other colonies supported M.A. and held first continental congress. -
Paul Reveres ride
Paul Revere, Sam Prescott, Billy Dawes rode through Lexington M.A. to warn colonists, Sam Adams, and John Hancock to escape and that the British were coming. -
Lexington and Concord
Massachusets minutemen meet British soldiers at Lexington were the first shot of the Revolutionary war was fired. Nobody knows who fired the first shot to this day because both sides had to much propaganda.
