Road to evolution

By anp0325
  • Navigation Acts

    Declared that only English ships would be allowed to bring goods and transfer it to North American colonies so they could export them to commodities such as tobacco and sugar to England.
  • End of salutary Neglect

    When british started placing and reinforcing restrictions on policies on the colonies following french and indian war.
  • proclamation of 1763

    It prevented american colonists from taking land that they didn´t own the rights to acquired by the french and indian war.
  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act
    A tax sugar by the British Parliament in american colonies
  • stamp Act

    The Stamp Act made people pay tax on a variety of pieces of paper due to their unique pictures and what they are used for and playing cards too is included to be paid for
  • Sons of Liberty

    colonial resistance through the use of anything that petitions and assemblies because getting people together resorted violence to get money and public policity
  • Town shend

    They would import glasses and lead paper and more to get paid for what they were required to do for the colonial govenors and judges to raise the price of tea.
  • Boston Massacre

    There was a fight between British troops and townspeople in Boston in 1770 before the Revolutionary War started.
  • second continental congress

    Meetings of delegates from the thirteen colonies united in support of the American Revolution and the Revolutionary War which established the American independence from the British empire.
  • Lexington and concord

    Massachusetts colonists defied the British authority to outnumber and outfight the red coats and embarked on a lengthy war to earn more rights/independence for each person.
  • committees of correspondence

    a way for a colonial legislature to communicate with their agents in London.
  • Boston tea party

    Boston tea party
    A act of protesting 60 colonists to exchange chests of tea into boston harbor against both tax and tea.
  • intolerable Acts

    four punitive measures enacted is making areas bigger of Quebec into the Great lake region now they part of mid western united states.
  • First continental congress

    said that colonists should have the same rights as English man.
  • patrick Henry ´ Give me liberty or Give me Death ´ speech

    urge americans to arm for a war that he saw as something that can be prevented.
  • olive Branch petition

    Their loyalty to the British crown to emphasized their right as British citizens.
  • Thomas paine ¨ common sense¨

    made a clear case for independence and directly attacked the political economic and knowlegy obstacles to achieving it.
  • Declaration of independence

    Right to be free and independent states.