Road to Revolution Timeline

  • Period: to

    Navigation Acts

    Parliament and King James II began a struggle for power. William and Mary promised to govern England. The English called this peaceful transfer of power the Glorious Revolution. It brought major changes for the government in England. Starting then no ruler would have more power then the legislature.
  • Molasses Act

    Molasses Act
    A British law passed in 1733 that taxed molasses, rum, and sugar imported into the North America colonies from non-British countries.
  • Period: to

    Fort Necessity

    The Albany delegates also talked about how the colonist might work together more closely against the French. They decided to adopt Benjamin Franklin's Albany plan of the Union for a united colonial government. Each colony would have to give up some of it's powers to form a colonist government.
  • French and Indian War

    French and Indian War
    The French and Indian War was a war between the French, British, and Native American. They were fighting for control of their own land and their culture.
  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act
    The Sugar Act is when England taxed less for goods because people who smuggle. When they taxed less for good some people would stop smuggling and start to buy the goods.
  • Declaratory act

    Declaratory act
    The Declaratory act was an act declared by the British Parliament that allowed them to make any law they wanted. The Parliament had taxed the colonist with the Sugar Act and the Stamp Act.
  • Townshend Act

    Townshend Act
    The Townshend act was when they taxed the colonist on goods. Things the Colonist were taxed on are glass, lead, paper, tea, and paint. Then colonist encouraged other colonist to start wearing homemade fabrics.
  • Boston massacre

    Boston massacre
    The Boston massacre helped the B.E.I.C parliament pass the Tea act. The colonists were mad about being taxed, they were not mad about being taxed they were mad because they were being taxed without being asked.
  • Intolerable or Coercive

    Intolerable or Coercive
    The Intolerable or Coercive act was four laws that passed by the British Parliament to punch the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party.
  • General Gage takes over Boston

    General Gage takes over Boston
    Gage returns to England and misses the Boston Tea Party. When he returned he took over the governor position in Massachusetts.
  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act
    The Quartering Act is when the British made it a law that if any solders came to your house and wanted to sleep at your house and eat your food you have too. If you don' t you are breaking the law
  • Administration of Justice

    Administration of Justice
    The Administration of Justice is a law that was forced by the government and that if a person does a crime and gets arrested they have to go to court and faced a trial.
  • Quebec Act

    Quebec Act
    The Quebec Act is a government for Canada was created, and extended its territory all the way south to the Ohio River.