Road to Revolution

A law passed by Parliament banning colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains, reserving it for natives instead.

• The Proclamation of 1763

• The Stamp Act

• The Townshend Acts

• The Intolerable Acts

Land where France made money trading for beaver pelts. Colonists wanted this land and it led to the French and Indian War.

• Ohio River Valley

• Mississippi River Valley

• Great Lakes Region

• Appalachian Mountains

People who remained neutral and did not take either side in the fight for independence.

• Neutralists

• Patriots

• Loyalists

• Revolutionaries

A tax on all paper goods, such as wills, and playing cards.

• Stamp Act

• Sugar Act

• Tea Act

• Townshend Acts

Ended the French and Indian War. France lost all land in North America. Canada and land east of the Mississippi went to the British. New Orleans and land west of Mississippi went to Spain.

• Treaty of Paris

• Treaty of Versailles

• Treaty of Ghent

• Treaty of Utrecht

Member of the Sons of Liberty; rode to Lexington to warn of the approaching British troops; artist of "The Bloody Massacre"

• Samuel Adams

• Paul Revere

• John Hancock

• Thomas Paine

He was a wealthy colonist. He became a Major in the English Army during the French and Indian War.

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

• Benjamin Franklin

• John Adams

Patriot women who made substitute goods that replaced boycotted British goods.

• Daughters of Liberty

• Sons of Liberty

• Continental Congress

• Boston Tea Party

tax on molasses; lowered in hopes of stopping colonists from smuggling

• Sugar Act

• Stamp Act

• Townshend Acts

• Tea Act

Refuse to buy

• boycott

• purchase

• support

• endorse