The road to revolution

By igrund66
  • Treaty of Paris

    Treaty of Paris

    It marks the end of the French and Indian war. It kicked the French out of America.
  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act

    The sugar act was a law passed to raise the tax revenue in the colonies for the British.
  • Stamp Act Congress

    Stamp Act Congress

    The stamp act Congress was an assembly which brought together 27 delegates from nine colonies.
  • Townshend Acts

    Townshend Acts

    There was a tax on glass, white lead, paper, paint, and tea.
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    A clash between British soldiers and some angry townspeople.
  • Committees of Correspondence

    Committees of Correspondence

    Organizations that were founded by Samuel Adams and they were used to spread the spirit of resistance.
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    Bostonians who dressed as Indians to sneak on ships to throw out the tea into the harbor.
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts

    Chartered rights were taken away and restrictions were placed on town meetings.
  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress

    A meeting in Philadelphia to consider colonial grievances.
  • Battle at Lexington and Concord

    Battle at Lexington and Concord

    British troops went to seize colonial gunpowder and to kill their leaders. The minutemen fought back and eight were killed and more were wounded.
  • Second Continental Congress

    Second Continental Congress

    The Continental Congress met again, but this time all thirteen colonies were represented. They drafted new appeals to the king. They also looked for ways to raise money for the military.
  • Olive Branch Petition

    Olive Branch Petition

    The Continental Congress created this petition to ask for the king to prevent further hostility and profess loyalty to the crown. But they were declined.
  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    Battle of Bunker Hill

    The colonists had seized Bunker hill and when the British attacked they were destroyed.
  • Publication of Common Sense

    Publication of Common Sense

    An influential pamphlet written by Thomas Paine.
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

    A declaration of natural rights that established what was right and wrong.
  • Battle of Long Island

    Battle of Long Island

    The attacked the Americans with the largest armed force seen in America and the colonists lost, but Washington managed to get away.
  • Drafting of the Model Treaty

    Drafting of the Model Treaty

    The Continental Congress drafted the Model Treaty to gain in the fight help from the French.
  • Battle at Trenton

    Battle at Trenton

    Washington lead a group of soldiers to surprise attack across the Delaware river.
  • Armed Neutrality

    Armed Neutrality

    Catherine the Great, leader of Russia, organized the Armed Neutrality which was a group of European neutrals in an act of hostility towards Great Britain.
  • Treaty of Paris(1783)

    Treaty of Paris(1783)

    The British recognized America’s independence and the war would end.
  • Treaty of Fort Stanwix

    Treaty of Fort Stanwix

    It was a treaty between the United States and the Iroquois Indians were the Indians would lose some of their land.