The Road to Revoulution

Proclamation of 1763

Oct 7, 1763

-King James stated that the Appalachian Mountains were western boundaries to the colonies.

Sugar Act

Apr 5, 1764

-It lowered the tax on molasses that was imported from the colonist.
-It was placed to stop smuggling.

Stamp Act

Mar 22, 1765

-Made so that parliment could raise money
-This placed tax on materials that were printed in the colonies
-Every printed material had get a stamp put on it.

Townshend Acts tax colonial imports

Jul 2, 1767

-passed to avoid conflicts from stamp act
-the taxes only applied to imported goods

Boston Massacre

Mar 5, 1770

-When the Boston colonists got tired of redcoats stealing goods, fighting boys who messed with them.
-Weapons included sticks, stones, shovels, clubs, snowballs, oyster shells, etc..
-Five colonists died.

Samuel Adams sets up a comittee of correspondence

Nov 1, 1772

-Samuel Adams revived it
-it brought many protestors together to oppose British measures

Boston Tea Party

Dec 16, 1773

-342 chest of tea were dumped into the sea.
-men disquised themselves as mohawks and got on board the ships.

Intolerable Acts

Mar 24, 1774

-passed because King George III realized that Britain was losing their control on the colonies.

First Continental Congress Meets

Sep 5, 1774

-55 men came to the city in Philadelphia.
-sent delegates from all of the colonies except for georgia

Battles of Lexington and Concord are Foughts

Apr 19, 1775

-the redcoats went to Lexington at dawn.
-70 minutemen were alerted by Revere and Dawes
-8 minutemen died