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Stirrings of Rebellion Timeline

By kingk96
  • enlightenment

    enlightenment
    The enlightenment was when scientist wanted to see how the worl worked.Thomas jefferson used reasons to say that individials have natural rights government must respect.
  • French and indian war

    French and indian war
    The war between the british and england vs french and indian the war was for the british to take what the french had.The british in the end got what they had wanted to win all the french land.
  • proclamation of 1763

    proclamation of 1763
    The proclamation banned the settlements west of the appalachians.This ban made a line in which no one could cross, but the british couldnt control what people did so the natives continued to move west.
  • Sugar act

    Sugar act
    The sugar act was to try and stop smuggling of goods. What this act had brought was better law enforcement to try and stop the smuggling from happening.
  • Stamp act

    Stamp act
    The stamp act was to enforce colonist to buy special stamped paper to write letters on. If a colonist was to break these rules there were to attend vice-admirality courts.
  • Townshend act

    Townshend act
    The townshend act put tax on all the valuable stuff that they new they could get more money for. they impose the three penny tax on tea which raised tea tax
  • Boston massacre

    Boston massacre
    the british attacked defensless people, a couple years later a group of rhode island attacked the british and patrolled on to find smugglers.
  • boston tea party

    boston tea party
    the boston tea party was were the british tea company was about to go bankrupt and they would have to sell there tea tax free. which meant the were goin to lose money so they threw it into the harbor
  • intolerable acts

    intolerable acts
    the intoreable acts was about laws that were put in place. one law shut the harbor down because of wha the dd with the tea.the also had to house soldiers in private homes
  • the battles of lexington and concord

    the battles of lexington and concord
    the battle of lexington and concord was when they sent agents into other towns to find stockpiles and other goods.they headed out to concord and lexington to destroy there towns.