American Revolution

By Ashten
  • Navigation acts

    Navigation acts

    A few laws passed to restrict colonial trade.
  • Townshend Act

    Townshend Act

    Taxes imposed on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea.
  • Quartering act

    Quartering act

    British soldiers were to be housed in colonists houses.
  • French and Indian war.

    French and Indian war.

    A war that lasted 7 years. The American colonies fought the French.
  • Stamp act

    Stamp act

    The British charged the colonists for everything paper
  • Boston massacre

    Boston massacre

    British soldiers shot at an unarmed crowd. They killed 5 people.
  • Boston tea party

    Boston tea party

    Colonists threw tea overboard in the Boston harbor to protest the taxes.
  • Common sense

    Common sense

    A pamphlet by Thomas Paine
  • Intolerable act (coercive acts)

    Intolerable act (coercive acts)

    laws passed that punished the colonies for the Boston tea party.
  • Olive branch petition

    Olive branch petition

    The last attempt at preventing war.
  • Battle of Lexington and concord

    Battle of Lexington and concord

    The first fight of the revolutionary war
  • Declaration of independence.

    Declaration of independence.

    A document that declared Americas independence.
  • Articles of confederation

    Articles of confederation

    An agreement of the nations first form of government.
  • Articles of confederation

    Articles of confederation

    An agreement of the nations first form of government.
  • Second continental congress

    Second continental congress

    meeting of the 13 colonies in support of the revolutionary war.
  • Daniel Shays rebellion

    Daniel Shays rebellion

    A armed revolution due to a debt crisis.
  • Constitutional Convention

    Constitutional Convention

    Established the federal government