road to revolution

  • The French and Indian war

    it was a war between the British Americans and the new French and it each side was supported by the native American allies.
  • the proclamation of 1763

    The proclamation of 1763 was started by the British at the end of the French and Indian war, to make the natives happy by the british putting settlers on there land.
  • The sugar act

    The sugar act, also call the plantation act or the revenue act. In 1764 the us colonial history, British legislation aimed at the ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch.
  • The stamp act

    The stamp act was signed to help pay for British troops stationed in the colonies during the 7 year war.
  • The stamp act of 1766

    Enacted in November 1766, the controversial act forced colonists to buy a British stamp for every official document they obtained
  • The Townshend acts of 1767

    The Townshend acts were a series of measures, passed by British parliament in 1767
  • The Boston massacre

    The Boston massacre was a street fight between a patriot mob and a squad of British soldiers. They threw snowballs, stones and sticks.
  • The tea act

    The tea act was an act of the parliament of great Britan. The objective was to reduce the larges amounts of tea help by the financially troubled British
  • The Boston tea party

    It was a political protest, it happened on December 16th, 1773. American colonists were mad at the Brittan for imposing "taxation without representation."
  • Intolerable Acts

    They were acts that punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774, after the Boston tea party. The laws meant no punishment for Massachusetts colonists.
  • 1st Continental Congress

    Each of the 13 colonies except for Georgia, met in Philadelphia as the first continental congress to organize colonial resistance to parliaments coercive acts.