10 events that lead to the Independance

  • Albany Plan

    Albany Plan
    This was a plan to bring together a government for the 13 colonies
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    Required Americans to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    a mob started throwing snowballs and stones at a squad of British soldiers, who fired back and killed multiple colonists
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    Colonists dressed up as Indians and went to the british boats to dump tea off of them.
  • 1st Continental Congress

    1st Continental Congress
    Fifty-six delegates gathered from all of the colonies and made a draft called the Declaration of Rights and Grievances
  • Intolerable Act

    Intolerable Act
    the were Intolerable Act was meant to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party and other protests.
  • Battle Of Lexington and Concord

    Battle Of Lexington and Concord
    This was one of this first battles of the revolutionary war.
  • 2nd Continental Congress

    2nd Continental Congress
    Delegates from the Thirteen colonies came together to write the Declaration of Independance
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    American Revolution

    The American Revolution was a battle between the colonies and Great Britain. They defeated the British in the American Revolutionary War with an alliance with France and other countries.
  • Declaration Of Independance

    Declaration Of Independance
    This was a document saying that the Thirteen colonies are now sovereign states.