ROAD TO REVELUTION

By 24cmckay

  • FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR

    The French and Indian War was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France

  • PROCLAMATION OF 1763

    chief, King George III declared all lands west of the Appalachian Divide off-limits to colonial settlers

  • SUGAR ACT

    Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act (1733), which was about to expire. Under the Molasses Act

  • STAMP ACT OF 1765

    The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper

  • TOWNSHEND ACTS

    Townshend Acts, (June 15–July 2, 1767), in colonial U.S. history, series of four acts passed by the British Parliament in an attempt to assert what it considered to be its historic right to exert authority over the colonies through suspension of a recalcitrant

  • THE BOSTON MASSACRE

    The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry.

  • the tea act

    The Meaning and Definition of the Tea Act: The Tea Act of 1773 was a British Law, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on May 10, 1773, that was designed to bail out the British East India Company

  • THE BOSTON TEA PARTY

    The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor

  • INTOLERABLE ACTS

    This law was passed on June 2, 1774. Like the previous Quartering Act, the new law allowed a colonial governor to house British soldiers in unoccupied houses and barns.

  • 1ST CONGRESSIONAL CONGRESS

    The Congress first met in Philadelphia on September 5, 1774, with delegates from each of the 13 colonies except Georgia.