"Roads to Revolution"

Proclamation Line

Oct 7, 1763

Issued by King George 111 a line was drawn along the Appalachian Mountains to divide territory between French and British.

Stamp Act

Mar 22, 1765

Direct Tax on paper in the colonies just to make $$

Quartering Act

Mar 25, 1765

Coloniest had to house and feed British troops.

Declaratory Act

Mar 18, 1766

Act of the Parliament of Great Britain and it accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act.

Townshend Acts

Jun 29, 1767

direct tax on paint, glass, paper, paint, and TEA.

Boston Massacre

Mar 5, 1770

A mob surrounds a group of 9 British soldiers. Snowballs and insults are hurled leading firing from the british in result of 5 coloniest dead.

Committee of correspondence

Mar 16, 1773

A shadow government organized by the Patriot leaders of the thirteen colonies.

Tea Act

May 10, 1773

British passed a law removing tax on British Tea and keep tax on colonial tea.

Boston Tea Party

Dec 6, 1773

Dressed as indians colonist board an English ship in Boston Harbor and dumped 18,000 pounds of English tea into the water.

Intolerable or Coercive Acts

Mar 24, 1774

Result from the Boston Tea Party. King Geroge 111 closed the Boston Harbor. Invoke martial law in Boston.

"Shot heard around the World"

Apr 18, 1775

when British troops are sent to confiscate colonial weapons, they run into an untrained and angry militia.

Common Sense

Jan 10, 1776

A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine which inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to fight for Independence from Britain.

Declaration of Independence

Jul 4, 1776

It was a document to declare independence from Great Britain.