Road to Revolution

  • French and Indian War

    North America had a conflict when Great Britain and France were in a war
  • Proclamation of 1736

    King George III used it to forbid all settlement west
  • Sugar Act

    A revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain
  • Stamp Act of 1765

    Great Britain imposed a direct tax on British colonies in America and required printed materials to be stamped with a embossed revenue stamp
  • Townshend Acts

    A series of British acts of Parliament relating to the British colonies in America
  • The Boston Massacre

    British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston
  • Tea Act

    It was an act to reduce the massive amount of tea
  • Boston Tea Party

    A political and mercantile protest
  • Intolerable Acts

    Laws that were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonies for their Tea Party protest
  • 1st Congressional Congress

    A meeting of the delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the U.S.