Road to Revolution

Taxed imported goods such as paper, lead, glass, paint, and tea

• Proclamation of 1763

• Townshend Acts of 1767

• Tea Act 1773

Issued by King George III

• Stamp Act 1765

• Quatering Act 1765

• Proclamation of 1763

Allowed East India Company to lower their prices of colonial merchants

• Boston Tea Party December 1773

• Tea Act 1773

• Intolerable Acts

Ordered the colonists to provide food and shelter for the more than 10,000 British troops stationed in the colonies.

• Quatering Act 1765

• Stamp Act 1765

• Boston Massacre 1770

Five colonists died, including Crispus Attucks, a former slave.

• Boston Massacre

• Quatering Act

• Intolerable Act

Known as the "Shot Heard Around the World", it was the start of the American Revolution.

• Tea Act

• First Contintenal Congress

• Lexington and Concord

To punish the colonies for destroying the tea, Parliament passed a series of four laws called Coercive Acts.

• Tea Act

• Boston Tea Party

• Intolerable Act

Minutemen began to organize throughout the colonies. British General Thomas Gage, the commander at Boston, ordered his troops to seize colonial supplies and to arrest Sam Adams and John Hancock.

• Lexington and Concord

• First Continental Congress

• Tea Act

Required stamps to be placed on all legal documents such as marriage licenses and wills as well as playing cards, newspapers, calendars, and packages of dice.

• Proclamation Act 1763

• Quatering Act 1765

• Stamp Act 1765

Colonists refused to buy the tea; shiploads were sent back from Philadelphia and New York City.

• Boston Tea Party

• Tea Act

• Stamp Act