Steps to Revolution

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  • Treaty of Paris

    Treaty of Paris
    Picture SourceThis was signed by Great Britain, France, Spain, with Portugal in agreement after Britains victory over France and Spain during the French and Idian War.

  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763
    Picture SourceThis banned the British colonist from building settlements past The Appalachian Mountain border because it was the Indian Territory.

  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    Picture SourceThis was an act of the British Parliment that put taxes all printed goods in American colonies.

  • Declaratory Act

    Declaratory Act
    Picture SourceThis act said that The Britsh had the power to tax anything in the American colonies that were taxed in The British Colonies. It lessened the Sugar Act and joined the repeal of the Stamp Act.

  • Townshend Act

    Townshend Act
    Picture Source This was a series of acts passed by the Parliment of Great Britain. It was taxes put of tea, glass, paper and lead.

  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    Picture Source This was a fight between "patriots' throwing rocks and sticks at Britisih soilders. Several colonist were killed by the soilders for causing a riot.

  • Tea Act

    Tea Act
    Picture SourceThis was an act to keep the British East India Company from going out of busisness. In order for them to do that they sold the tea directly to shopkeepers at a low price.

  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    Picture Source This was a political protest in which the "Sons of Liberty' went aboard a ship dressed up as inidians and threw tons of tea overboard.

  • Intolerable Act

    Intolerable Act
    Picture Source: This was an act passed by the British Parliment after the Boston Tea Party. This was meant to punish the colonsit for throwing the tea overboard in the Boston Tea Party. This act closed Boston Harbor, banned town meeting, allowed British officers to be tried in other colonies or in Britaian when accused of crimes, and forced colonist to quater soliders in their home.

  • 1st Continental Congress

    1st Continental Congress
    Picture SourceThis was a meeting that 12 out of the 13 colonies came together at Carpenter's Hall to discuss problems with Britain. This lasted until October 26, 1774.

  • Midnight Ride; Paul Revere, Cheswell, and Dawes

    Midnight Ride; Paul Revere, Cheswell, and Dawes
    Picture SourceThis was an event that men rode off on horses to Lexington to warn the colonist that the British were coming and that they needed to prepare a small outbreak fight.

  • Lexington and Concord

    Lexington and Concord
    Picture Source The battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military battles of the American Revolution.

  • 2nd Continental Congress

    2nd Continental Congress
    Picture Source:It succeeded the First Continental Congress, which met between September 5, 1774 and October 26, 1774, also in Philadelphia. The second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.