The American Road To Revolution…….

1. The American Road To Revolution……. By Courtney Jenkins and Elizabeth Blain……

2. The French and Indian War (1754- 1763…..) • French and the British were fighting in Europe then it spread to north America where the French were fighting for more land and the British were fighting for the fur trade • The British fought against the French and the Indians were with the French to fight the British because they were afraid that the British were going to take over there land…. • The war ended in 1759 when the British major general James Wolfe captured Quebec. • The result of the war was they signed a peace treaty in 1763 but the British got most of the land in North America and began to tax the colonist…..

3. Sugar Act……. • 1764 Act that put a 3 cent tax on sugar and increased tax on coffee, indigo, and certain things of wine. You could not do importation of rum and French wines. These taxes affected only a certain part of the population, but some people who were really affected were the merchants which were the people who said a lot. The taxes were put up without the say of the colonists. This was one of the first big problems in which colonists wanted a say in how much they were taxed…….

4. Stamp act • First direct British tax on American colonists. Put in November, 1765. Every newspaper and other public and legal documents had to have a Stamp, or British seal, on it. The Stamp, cost money…… The colonists didn't think they should have to pay for something they had been doing for free for many years, and they said in force, with demonstrations and called the Stamp Act place, which put its answers to the Crown. Seeing the crazy reaction in the colonies, the British government applied the Stamp Act.

5. Townshend Act • In 1767 laws named for Charles Townshend, British Chancellor of the Treasurer. These laws placed new taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea. The people of the colonies took these taxes as the same as to the Sugar Act and Stamp Act, and Britain eventually put all the taxes except the one on tea. In response to the sometimes violent protests by the American colonists, Great Britain sent more troops to the colonies.

6. Boston Massacre • Shooting five American colonists by British troops on March 5, 1770. One person, an African-American man named Crispus Attacks, was killed. Nearly every part of the story is disputed by both sides. Did the colonists have weapons? The British say rocks and other weapons were hurled at them. But the British had guns, and they did open fire. The Boston Massacre deepened American distrust of the British military presence in the colonies.

7. Boston Tea Party……. • Angry and frustrated at a new tax on tea, American colonists calling themselves the Sons of Liberty as Mohawk Native Americans boarded three British ships (the Dartmouth, the Eleanor, and the Beaver) and dumped 342 whole crates of British tea into Boston harbor on December 16, 1773. Similar incidents happened in Maryland, New York, and New Jersey in the next few months, and tea was eventually boycotted throughout the colonies.

8. Declaratory Acts…… • The Declaratory Act was a declaration by the British parliament in 1766 which repealed of the Stamp Act of 1765. The government repealed the Stamp Act because boycotts were hurting British trade and used the declaration to explain the. The declaration stated that Parliament's authority was the same in America as in Britain and really put in the Parliament's authority to make binding laws on the American colonies.

9. Navigation Acts….. • The Navigation Acts were passed by the English Parliament in the 17th century. The Acts were originally at putting the Dutch from the profits made by English trade. The mercant theory behind the Navigation Acts assumed that world trade was fixed and the colonies existed for the parent country.

10. Proclamation of 1763 • In the fall of 1763, a royal decree was issued that stopped the North American colonists from starting or maintaining settlements west of an imaginary line running down the crest of the Appalachian Mountains.

11. Quartering Act….. • The Quartering Act of 1774 was another thorn in the Americans' side. This Act required Americans to assist in the housing of British troops who were there to squash their liberties, in the Americans' minds anyway!

12. Intolerable acts…… • The Intolerable Acts were laws that were really punishments that king George the 3rd put on the colonies. He did this to the Colonists because he wanted to punish them for dumping tea into the harbor at the Boston Tea Party. The Quakers told King George to end the acts, but he said that the colonies must put it to these English laws.

13. Continental Congress • The Continental Congress was a convention of delegates called together from the Thirteen Colonies that became the governing body of the United States during the American Revolution

14. of Sons Liberty • The Sons of Liberty was a political group made up of American Patriots. The group was formed to protect the rights of the colonists by the British government after 1766. They are best known for taking the Boston Tea Party in 1773, which led to the Intolerable Acts by the Patriots that led to the American Revolutionary War in 1775.

15. Lexington and Concord • The first shots starting the revolution were fired at Lexington, Massachusetts. On April 18, 1775, British General Thomas Gage sent 700 soldiers to destroy guns and other thing from the colonists which was stored in the town of Concord, just outside of Boston. They also planned to arrest Samuel Adams and John Hancock, two of the leaders of the patriot movement.