Elements of a Revolution Timeline

  • Navigation Acts

    Navigation Acts
    Were series of laws that restrict colonial trade things like lumber, furs, fish, and tobacco.
  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act
    On April 5th, 1764 the Sugar Act was passed. The act halved the job on foreign- made molasses, Placed duties on certain imports and enforced the law of allowing prosecutors to try smuggling cases in a vice-admiralty court rather than in a more sympathetic colonial court.
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    Required colonists to buy stamped paper for legal document, license, newspapers, ect.
  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act
    The act was passed to have the colonist to provided their homes as a shelter for the soldiers.
  • Townshend Acts

    Townshend Acts
    Indirect taxes on imported materials including glass, lead and paint. Tea was also taxed and that was a big deal since a lot of drank it.
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    A fight where the colonist were throwing snowballs, stone and sticks at British soldiers. Five colonist were shot and killed by the soldiers for a confusion of orders.
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    A protest by the Sons of Liberty where they dumped tea into the ocean.
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts
    A series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1773. The laws were a punishment for throwing the tea into the ocean.
  • Lexington & Concord

    Lexington & Concord
    700 soldiers went to destroy guns and ammunition the colonist had stored.