toward independence

  • Stamp Act

    Prime Minister George Grenville made a new law. Now colonists gotta pay more money because they got a debt from the war. The colonists don't want this!
  • proclamation 1763

    drew a line down the mountains and now we can’t cross! He doesn’t want dead colonists and Indians! Arguments because of the use of government power. #beattheirturkeyeatinbutts
  • The Quartering Act

    Omg i just found out that the colonist were told to furnish shoulders. With candles, firing , bedding , cooking utensils , salt , vinegar and bearer of cider.#that’s bogus.
    Dead the new laws placed a duty,or tax on certain goods.#OMG.#what is wrong them.
  • Boycott Of British Goods

    OMG the british taxes are just so lame that my friends and neighborhood are gonna boycott so they won't receive any money you guys should join me am i right? #Boycott #rebels
  • Boston Massacre

    OMG Army soldiers shot and killed people while under intense attack by a mob. I can't believe this! Incident on King Street By the British. #BostonMassacre #Scary
  • Boston Tea Party

    The Sons of Liberty literally just stole a boat. They dumped all of our tea In the ocean all because they thought that they weren’t getting taxed right.We are so mad. #DEVASTATING
  • Intolerable Acts

    The Intolerable Acts were passed to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their acts of The British Tea Party. The colonists then collected a rebellion to drive out the British Troops
  • Colonies Form Militias

    Patriots,Local Militias,and Minuteman.This happened to enforce the boycott.They got mad and decided to bring the two sides to the brink of war.
  • The First Continental Congress

    I just came from The First Continental Congress meeting.There was 49 other people there at the meeting.They had the meeting to bring states together. We agreed to meet again.
  • Lexington

    A spy for general gage told him that the colonists were hiding a supply of weapons and gunpowder in the village of concord, so he sent 700 troops to strike at once.