Road to the Revolution

Conflict after the Seven Years War that convinces the British they didn't have the resources to protect colonists in the Ohio River Valley.

• Boston Massacre
• Pontiac's War
• Boston Tea Party
• Declaration of rights & grievances

Created by the British in response to Pontiac's War & a lack of funds.

• Declaratory Acts
• Navagation Acts
• Proclamation Line 
• Quartering Act

Creates the Wilderness Road beginning in 1769, eventually settled in St. Charles, MO.

• Davy Crockett
• Samuel Adams
• Thomas Paine
• Daniel Boone

This puts a tax on molasses and creates admiralty courts to deal with smugglars.

• Sugar Act
• Proclamation of 1763
• Townshend Acts
• Intolerable Acts

This created a tax on almost everything that was printed such as wills, diplomas, and marriage licenses.

• Navagation Acts
• Stamp Act
• Declaratory Act
• Enumerated Goods Act

Forced colonists to house and feed British soldiers in their own homes.

• Quartering Act
• Navigation Act
• Townshend Acts
• Enumerated Goods

Creates the writs of assistance as well as creating a small tax on items such lead, tea, & paper.

• Navigation Acts
• Townshend Acts
• Stamp Act
• Tea Act

A group of Patriots who aggressively protested against British actions.

• Sons of Liberty
• Parliment 
• Philosophes
• Continental Congress

Its purpose was to regulate colonial trade by doing things such as requiring all ship that traded with the colonies to be British ships as well as requiring at least half of the cargo be British goods.

• Enumerated Goods
• Intolerable Act
• Navigation Act
• Stamp Act

A list of goods that the colonists were required to purchase directly from Great Britain.

• Enumerated Goods
• Declaratory Act
• Intolerable Act
• Navigation Act