Road to Revolution

By Frank Dockery
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    Revolution

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    French & Indian War

    A seven year war that all started due to the the French and the British fighting for land in North America.

  • Albany Plan union

    Was Benjamin Franklin idea plan to unify the government of the 13 colonies.
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    Pontiacs Rebellion

    A little rebellion of Indians of Indians fighting the British over rules on Great Lakes region

  • Proclamation of 1763

    The proclamation of issued October 7th, 1763 by King George III to forbid any colonization past the Appalachian Mountains

  • Sugar Act

    It is a requirement for traders/merchants to pay taxes onon sugar and molasses.

  • The Currency Act

    The Act in which Great Britain developed paper currency to help traders and merchants with the value of colonial currency going down.

  • The Stamp Act

    The Act in which Great Britain made the colonists pay taxes of ever piece of paper that was printed that they got.

  • Quartering Act

    The Act which Great Britain passed that they can stay in people's homes for free if there is not enough room in the quarters.

  • Declaratory Act

    Made the taxing laws the same in the colonies as Great Britain
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    Townshend Act

    The Act in which Great Britain put a tax on everything that came into the colonies.

  • Boston Massacre

    A riot broke out between the colonists and the British gaurds

  • Tea Act

    Helped a struggling Indian Company ship tea to america, yet no new taxes were made on the colonists.

  • Boston Tea Party

    Colonists dressed as indians raided three ships as a protest towards the tax on tea
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    The Intolerable Act

    Punitive laws formed by the British Government in retaliation for th Boston Tea Party.

  • The Quebec Act

    Britain passed an act that gave the French Canadians religious freedom and got them out of civil law.

  • 1st Continental Congress

    All states (except Georgia met in Pennsylvania to organize a resistance.

  • Battles of Lexington and Concord

    British soldiers sent to the colonies to confiscate their weapons and ended up in war

  • Common Sense by Thomas Paine

    Was the first public asking for independence from Great Britain.

  • Sons of Liberty

    First major act of the group was in Boston due to Stamp Act that was put in place.