The Road To Revolution

By Trey S
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    The French and Indian War 🇬🇧🇺🇲

    • Fought between the French and British
    • The British hoped to stop French expansion on the American continent
    • Part of the Seven Year War

  • Proclamation of 1763 🇬🇧

    • Implemented a boundary along the Appalachian Mountains known as the Proclamation Line
    • It declared that colonists could not settle land westward of the line
    • This land included land gained from the French during the French and Indian War
    • Was in response to people wanting settle in newly gained land
    Colonial Response:
    - Colonists ignored the Proclamation Line and settled westward anyways
    - 5/10 unrest (Sort of organized, not violent, many people)

  • Paxton Boys 🇺🇲

    • A group of Pennsylvanian colonists who attacked Native Americans with the idea they were "making the land safer"
    • They went into Philadelphia with the intent to kill Natives who were in and around the city
    • 7/10 unrest (Fairly organized, extremely violent, consisted of a fair amount of people)
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    George Grenville's Program 🇬🇧

    • Introduced by George Grenville, a British politician and Prime Minister
    • A series of Acts imposing taxes on the American colonists
    • Includes the Sugar Act, the Stamp Act, and the Currency Act

  • Townshend Duties 🇬🇧

    • A series of taxes and regulations enabling control over the colonies
    Colonial Response:
    - Boycotted the British goods
    - 5/10 (sort of organized, lots of people, not violent)

  • Sugar Act 🇬🇧

    • Taxed imported sugars, molasses, and other goods
    • It was a modified version of the 1733 Molasses Act
    Colonial Response:
    - Colonists began to smuggle the taxed goods
    - 5/10 unrest (Kind of unorganized, a lot of people, not a lot of violence)

  • Quartering Act 🇬🇧

    • Forced colonists to take care of British soldiers while they were stationed in the colonies
    • This included providing food, money, and housing for these soldiers
    Colonial Response:
    - Disputed the legality of this law
    - Mainly upset eastern colonists as opposed to western colonists
    - 2/10 unrest (Not very organised, violent, or large)

  • Intolerable Acts 🇬🇧

    • A series of laws passed to try to remove disobedience, resistance, and violence in the colonies
    • Passed in response to the Boston Tea Party
    Colonial Response:
    - Continental Congress
    - 6/10 (Very organized, couple of people, wasn't violent)

  • Currency Act 🇬🇧

    • A law stating that colonists could not print their own currency
    • Was supposed to prevent British creditors from being paid in a currency with a depreciating value
    Colonial Response:
    - Minor protests formed
    - Colonists were upset with this act believing it was tyrannical
    - 3/10 unrest (A little unorganized, non-violent, few people)

  • Daughters of Liberty 🇺🇲

    • Contributed significantly to the resistance against British taxation by organizing boycotts and producing homemade goods to replace imported items
    • 7/10 unrest (organized, many people, non violent)

  • Stamp Act 🇬🇧

    • A new form of tax that directly taxed what people buy
    • Taxed any printed paper such as newspapers and legal documents
    • Forced all paper to be stamped, proving the tax was paid
    Colonial Response:
    - The colonists protested for "no taxation without representation
    - Riots were held and stamp distributers were attacked
    - 6/10 unrest (Kind of organized, A little violent, quite a few people)

  • Virginia Resolves 🇺🇲

    • A series of resolutions passed by the Virginian government
    • Was in response to the Stamp Act
    • 7/10 unrest (organized, few people, not violent)

  • Stamp Act Congress 🇺🇲

    • A meeting between colonial delegates who met in NYC to try and solve disagreements
    • It aimed to find a way to respond to the new Stamp Act that all the colonies agreed on
    • 4/10 unrest

  • Sons of Liberty 🇺🇲

    • An organization formed by American colonists in the early years of the American Revolution
    • Many members were involved in the establishment of the United States as an independent nation
    • 8/10 unrest (unorganized, many people, violent)

  • Stamp Act Congress 🇺🇲

    • The first convention called for by the American Colonies
    • Discussed a unified response to the Stamp Act
    • 6/10 unrest (organized, few people, not violent)

  • Declaratory Act 🇬🇧

    • Passed the same day the Stamp Act was repealed
    • Stated that parliament could pass laws binding the colonies no matter what
    Colonial Response:
    - people were upset however no action was taken
    - 2/10 unrest (not organized, many people, not violent)

  • Townshend Acts 🇬🇧

    • Initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea
    • Helped the British pay the expenses involved in governing the American colonies
    Colonial Response:
    - Boycotted British Goods
    - 5/10 unrest (sort of organized, many people, not violent)
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    Regulator Movement 🇺🇲

    • A small uprising in eastern North Carolina
    • Citizens were angry at appointed officials at things like excessive taxes
    • 6/10 unrest (Not that organized, lots of people, sort of violent)

  • Boston Massacre 🇬🇧🇺🇲

    • A confrontation between British soldiers and Boston townspeople
    • 5 colonists died, 6 more were injured

  • Gaspée incident 🇺🇲

    • British ship that enforced the unfair British trade regulation was looted and burned by American patriots
    • One of the first rebellions against the British crown
    • 8/10 unrest (organized, a few people, very violent)

  • Tea Act 🇬🇧

    • Granted the British East India Company a monopoly on the sale of tea in the American colonies
    Colonial Response:
    - Another boycott of British goods
    - 4/10 unrest (pretty organized, quite a few people, not violent)
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    Committees of Correspondence 🇺🇲

    • Formed in response to British policies that threatened colonists' rights and liberties
    • Includes the forming of the First Continental Congress
    • 6/10 unrest (organized, lots of people, not violent)

  • Boston Tea Party 🇺🇲

    • The willful destruction of 342 crates of British tea
    • A political protest that took place on December 16, 1773
    • 7/10 unrest (organized, many people, kind of violent)

  • First Continental Congress 🇺🇲

    • A convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies
    • In response to the Intolerable Acts
    • 6/10 unrest (very organized, many people, not violent)

  • Quebec Act 🇬🇧

    • Established the procedures of governance for the Province of Quebec
    • Defined the structure of the provincial government by creating a governor who was supported by a legislative council

  • Common Sense 🇺🇲

    • a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that advocated for American independence from British rule

  • Lexington and Concord 🇬🇧🇺🇲

    • the first major battles of the American Revolutionary War
    • 9/10 unrest (organized, many people, violent)

  • The American Crisis 🇺🇲

    • A collection of articles written by Thomas Paine during the American Revolutionary War

  • Declaration of Independence 🇺🇸

    • Formally declared the American colonies' separation from Great Britain
    • Outlined the grievances of the colonists
    • 10/10 unrest (organized, a bunch of people, not violent)