Road to Revolution

  • The French and Indian war

    The French and Indian war started in 1754 and ended in Pairs in 1763. Great Britain got immeasurable territorial gain when they were in North America. The war was succeeding boundary policy very expensive that it led the colonist grievance, in the fullness of time to the American Revolution.
  • The Proclamation of 1763

    In Pontiac's Rebellion the Native Americans were led by the Pontiac, Ottawa chief, King George III. They declared that the Appalachian Divide was not permitted to the colonial settlers. The royals declaration that on October 7, 1763 they were closing down and the Native Americans were not allowed to expand westward beyond Appalachia.
  • The Sugar Act

    On April 5, 1764 the Sugar and Molasses Act was about to expire. The Molasses Act colonial were required to pay taxes of six pence per gallon of foreign molasses.
  • Stamp Act of 1766

    On March 22, 1765 the Parliament passed the Stamp Act. They revoked it on 1766; but publication Declaratory Act that was basically the same thing. They thought that they were doing what was fit and best for all of the colonial.
  • Townshend Acts of 1767

    The Townshend started in November 20, 1767 it was close to the Declaratory Act of 1766, which started in the British Parliament. They had the same authority to tax the American colonies like Great Britain did.
  • The Boston Massacre

    The Boston Massacre was a deadly flourish that started in March 5, 1770 on king street in Boston. (That's why it is called "The Boston Massacre") It started on a street in between a America colonists and a solitary British soldier. It quickly escalated to a disorderly, bloody slaughter.
  • Tea Act

    On May 10, 1773 the Parliament passed the tea act. They were lunch the final speech in the movement in Boston. The act was not supposed to to raise revenue in the American colonies, actually it imposed no new taxes.
  • Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party was a protest that occurred on December 16, 1773. It was at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists were so irate and forestall because Boston were taxing them without portrayal. It made the American colonists so mad that they dumped 342 chests of tea by the British East India Company into the harbor.
  • Intolerable Acts

    They passed a law on June 2, 1774; it was moderately like the Quartering Act. When they passed the law it allowed a antonyms governor to house British soldiers, quiescent houses and barns. The intolerable act was passed by Parliament during when the American colonies were having difficulty's.
  • 1st Continental Congress

    On September 5, 1774 representative all of the 13 colonies, but not Georgia. They were fighting a Native American uprising and was dependent on the British because they were giving the British military supplies. All the 13 colonies met up in Philadelphia so they could have there first ever Continental Congress to organize colonial refusal to accept the Parliament's Coercive Act.