road to revolution zak and charlie

cause of the american revolution

Period: Jan 1, 1763 to Dec 31, 1775

End of the French and Indian War

Feb 10, 1763

grueling At the end of this grueling war the British emerge victorious. At the end of the war it causes debt for British. Causes taxes to be created.

The Proclamation of 1763

Jul 17, 1763

BannedBanned all colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains. Colonists ignore demand.

Sugar Act

May 5, 1764

TaxesTaxes sugar, Molasses, and other things to.

Quartering Act

Jul 5, 1765

AllAll colonists were forced to provide food and shelter for no compensation.

Stamp Act

Jul 5, 1765

TaxedTaxed on diplomas, contracts, newspapers, and playing cards. This act was later repealed.

Townshed Acts

Aug 11, 1767

BritishBritish will not tax in colonies but they do tax imports coming into the colonies angers colonists causes smuggling to become more frequent.

Boston Masacre

Mar 5, 1770

TheThe Colonists taunted the British to fire and killing five people including Cripus Attucks.

Boston Tea Party

Dec 16, 1773

[http://forum-network.org/lecture/230-years-later-boston-tea-party-revisited]this is when the sons of liberty and others smashed hundreds of crates of tea into boston harbor

Tea act

Dec 27, 1773

ThisThis taxes colonists until tea that was dumped in boston harbour is paid for.

Intolerable Acts

Dec 15, 1774

ThisThis act stengthens the quartering act banned town meetings closed the boston port until tea is paid for the colonists were really mad.

First Continental Congress

Dec 15, 1774

56 men gathered in Philidelphia Pennsylvania to discuss the matters pretaining to the intolerable acts

Paul Reveres Ride

Apr 18, 1775

Paul Revere rides the night before the british soldiers arrive at Lexington and Concord coming revere warns the people in Lexington and Concord to ready
their weapons.

Lexington and Concord

Apr 19, 1775

77 minutemen against 700 british troops continental militia drives british away from concord all the way to back Boston