Road to Revolution Timeline

  • Navigation acts

    Navigation acts
    The Navigation Acts were laws that the colonists were forced to follow for example all traded goods had to go to England first and they had to be taxed and all traded goods had to be carried on ships built in England or the colonies also all the crew on the ship had to be English
  • molasses act

    molasses act
    a british law passed in 1733 that taxed molasses, rum, and sugar imported into the north American colonies from non-british countries
  • Fort Necessity

    Fort Necessity
    After the French built Fort Duquesne George Washington set up a fort nearby called Fort Necessity this fort came under attack by the French and the native American allies
  • French and Indian war

    French and Indian war
    the french and indian war was a war between the British and the french to get the ohio river valley they would build tents to claim the land and then the war ended in feb of 1763 when the french and their native American allies and captured British forts
  • sugar act

    sugar act
    The Sugar Act would lower the price so more people would buy and people would stop smuggling
  • Stamp acts

    Stamp acts
    The Stamp Act was a tax put on printed materials
  • Declaratory Acts

    Declaratory Acts
    The Declaratory Act as an act that stated that parliament had the right to tax and make decisions for British colonies in all cases
  • Townshend Acts

    Townshend Acts
    the Townshend Act was a tax on imported goods it was an external act on things like glass, lead, paper, tea, and paint.
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    March 5th, 1770 a fight occurred between Bostonians and British soldiers
    The mob of Bostonians was fired on
    When the smoke cleared 5 lay dead and 3 were injured
    Among the dead was Crispus Attucks
    Part native american part African
    As well as an 11-year-old boy named Christopher Seider
    This is known as the Boston massacre
  • intolerable act

    intolerable  act
    Coercive Acts, 1774, is also known as the ‘intolerable acts’. intolerable means painful and unbearable
    these are a set of 4 laws that the parliament made
    Administration of justice
    Massachusetts government act
    Boston Port bill
    The Quartering Act
  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act
    permitted the requisition of unoccupied buildings at first, to house British troops
  • Administration of Justice

    Administration of Justice
    British officials charged with a capital offense had to be tried in another colony or England
  • Quebec Act

    Quebec Act
    June 1774: a government for Canada was created and extended its territory all the way south to the Ohio River