The Road to Revolution

the war fought between the British Colonies and the British Empire for Americans’ freedom; changing government to form a new one

• American Revolution

• Boston Tea Party

• French Revolution

• Townshend Act

1773- colonists dressed up as American Indians, boarded British tea ships, and dumped more than 300 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor

• American Revolution

• Boston Tea Party

• French Revolution

• Townshend Act

a refusal to buy them in order to make a point

• boycotts

• stamp act

• townshend acts

• tea act

another name for the Intolerable Acts; means to use threats to make someone do something

• Coercive Act

• Stamp Act

• Tea Act

• Townshends Act

1774- British Parliament passed several laws to punish colonists; too bad or awful to be accepted

• Intolerable Acts

• boycott

• Townsheands Act

• Tea Act

protested against British taxes; known for “Give me liberty, or give me death!”

• Patrick Henry

• Thomas Jefferson

• Jefferson Thomas

• Henry Patrick

passed in 1765; required certain papers to have stats on them; colonists had to pay for stamps

• Stamp Act

• Tea Act

• Townshend Act

• boycotts

a law (not a tax)— allowed one British company to control tea trade (British East India Company)

• Tea Act

• Stamp Act

• Intolerable Act

• Boycotts

after the french and Indian war:

• more british soldiers in colonies to “protect” colonists from American Indian attacks; more taxes directly from Britain— angered colonists

• more french soldiers in colonies to “protect” colonists from American Indian attacks; more taxes directly from Britain— angered the colonists

The Sugar Act

• tax on sugar and molasses; additional money went to British government

• tax on sugar and molasses; additional money went to the French government