Events Leading up the Declaration of Independence

By Aiden Suni

  • Albany Plan

    Albany Plan
    The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to create a unified government.

  • The Stamp Act

    The Stamp Act
    The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament. Irt required all Americans to play taxses that used stamps.

  • Boston Massacare

    Boston Massacare
    British soldiers, supported a sentry who was being pressed by a heckling, and throwing snowballs at citizens, shots were fired as well.

  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    In Boston Harbor, a group of Massachusetts dumped all the tea in the sea.

  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts
    An American term that was passed down by laws after the boston tea party.

  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress
    the first session of the Continental Congress convenes at Carpenter’s Hall in Philadelphia.

  • American Revolution

    American Revolution
    The conflict or tension between great britain and the Americans. The americans wanted to have a free country. The American revolution went from 1775-17783

  • Battles of Lexington and Concord

    Battles of Lexington and Concord
    First Revolutionary, when British troops are sent to confiscate colonial weapons, Paul Revere went to warn others that the british are coming.

  • Second Continental Congress

    Second Continental Congress
    The Second Continental Congress convened after the American Revolutionary War. It took the momentous step of declaring America’s independence from Britain.

  • Delcaration of Independence

    Delcaration of Independence
    thomas jefferson created the declaration of independence to make the americans a free country.