road to revolution

  • May 10, 775

    Fort Ticonderoga

    Fort Ticonderoga
  • navigation acts

    navigation acts
    it was a law that made the colonist sell their raw materials to England
  • Molasses Act

    Molasses Act
    was a British law that passed in 1733 that taxed molasses rum and sugar imported into the north American colonies from non Britsh countries
  • fort Necessity

    fort Necessity
    George Washington and an army of normal people built fort necessary to fight French forts
  • French and Indian war

    French and Indian war
    a war between the french and New England colonies
    with British winning but being 60millon in debt that ended with the treaty of pais 1763
  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act
    a tax that made sugar very cheap to try to stop smuggling in England
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    the stamp act was a tax on all printed good such as newspapers, playing cards, documents
  • Declaratory Acts

    Declaratory Acts
    stated that Parliament could make laws binding the American colonies "in all cases whatsoever
  • General Gage takes over Boston

    General Gage takes over Boston
    military general from England takes of the governs or known as the Massachusetts Government Act
  • Intolerable acts

    Intolerable acts
    a laws to pnshins the colonies for the tea party in boston
  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act
    this law stated that the red coat could just enter your home and kick you out of your own house and you could not fight back
  • Administration of Justice

    Administration of Justice
    the governess were overthrown bye the British
  • Quebec Act

    Quebec Act
    Permitted the requisition of unoccupied buildings at first, to house British troops
  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    Battle of Bunker Hill
    the battle that stared the Revolutionary War with 1000 red coats died and 90 minutemen died
  • Olive Branch Petition

    Olive Branch Petition
    a letter to the king before war was official
  • Benedict Arnold failed to take Quebec

    Benedict Arnold failed to take Quebec
    he fails to capture Quebec, he wants to get Quebec for glory
  • Washington takes Boston

    Washington takes Boston
    Washington is the new leader of the minutemen and he learns that they are not disalpine
  • DOI is signed

    DOI is signed
    DOI is made by Thomas Jefferson's
  • Second Continental Congress

    Second Continental Congress
    this is the meeting where the colonists decide to be an indented county from Britain