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Road to Revolution
Chain of Events
War
Debt
Tax Laws
Passed
Stamp Act (1765)
BOSTON
Massacre
1770
“Five people dead!
It’s a
Townshend Act
(1767)
Glue Here
Effects of the Stamp Act
MASSACRE!”
1773
Boston Tea
Party
British
(Coercive Acts)
1st Continental
Congress Meets
vs.
Colonists
(Intolerable Acts)
1.
Effects of the Boston
Tea Party
2.
3.
Glue to Notebook
Tea Act
Road to Revolution
Chain of Events
War
Debt
Colonists chanted,
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The French Natives
were fighting the
British over the Ohio
River Valley.
The British won, but
there were issues
between Great Britain and the colonists.
Who would pay for the
war?
“No taxation without representation!”
Stamp Act (1765)
All documents, newspapers, playing cards were
taxed. Once paid, an official stamp would be
placed on those
documents.
BOSTON
Massacre
1770
“Five people dead!
It’s a
Effects of the Stamp Act
Organized a Stamp Act Congress which sent a petition
to the King, and declared a
boycott on British goods that
led to the repeal of the
Stamp Act.
Organized the Sons of Liberty
Townshend Act
(1767)
MASSACRE!”
In Boston, angry colonists
gathers and shouted
taunts at the officers.
They also began throwing snowballs at them.
The Red Coats began
firing, and in the end, 5
people were dead.
Paul Revere made a
printing showing the Red
Coats firing on innocent
colonists. This was a form
of propaganda.
Glue Here
Great Britain had a lot of
debt because of the
French & Indian War.
Great Britain thought the
colonists should pay for
the costs of the war so
they passed tax laws
without any input from
the colonists.
Tax Laws
Passed
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This was not a tax,
but it gave the British East India Company exclusive rights
to sell tea in the colonies.
1773
Boston Tea
Party
(Coercive Acts)
Colonists
(Intolerable Acts)
Colonists form Committees
of Correspondence to communicate their situations to
each other then sent delegates to a Continental Congress in order to address the
problem of the Intolerable
Acts.
Effects of the Boston
Tea Party
Parliament passed the
“Coercive Acts”
 Closed the Boston
Harbor.
 Took away the rights
of Massachusetts to
govern itself.
1st Continental
Congress Meets
vs.
Colonists call the Coercive
Acts the “Intolerable Acts”.
Parliament did this
because of the
American Boycott
on Tea, The British
East India Company
was in financial trouble.
The Sons of Liberty
were afraid that
availability of
cheap tea would
undermine their
boycott, so they
dressed up like natives and threw tea
overboard.
British
1. Establish a boycott on all
trade with Great Britain.
2. Sent a petition to the
king.
3. Advised American Colonists to arm themselves.
This led to the Battle of Lexington an Concord and the
start of the Revolutionary
War.
Glue to Notebook
Tea Act