road to revolution-kenneth
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- French And Indian War 1754-1763
- Sugar Act 1764
- you know must pay for sugar and other imported goods
- Stamp Act 1765
- you will now have to pay for any for any document you mail
- this is outrageous
- this must be the new law they were talking about, now I have to house him, great.
- ]The French and British fought over land. The British won ,but went into a lot of debt from the war and started taxing the colonist to help pay for the the debt.This was important because it started the colonist getting used by the British.
- Quartering Act 1765
- this home is wonderful, I think Im going to stay here.
- Description of the Event: The British taxed the them. The British taxed the colonist on sugar and other goods that the British imported to them.This is important because this was one of the first major taxation that led the colonist to revolt.
- Boston Massacre 1770
- I cant believe that the soldiers killed the colonist!
- yeah! Me too, but I heard that the press exaggerated it to make it seem worse
- The British taxed the colonist on all important documents, like diplomas and mail.This was important because The colonist didn’t even have freedom to mail papers because anything mailed was taxed.
- Boston Tea Party 1773
- this is what they get for taxing us on tea
- yeah, we are done having to pay for all these good
- the British enacted a law that colonist had to house the British soldiers if the soldiers wanted to stay stay in their house.This was important because this made the colonist give up their homes to British soldiers if the soldiers wanted to stay there.
- British soldiers were enforcing parliament's laws in Boston and colonist started protesting the soldiers and the soldiers open fired on them. This was important because the people in the paper exaggerated it to make colonist mad and tried to get them riled up.
- Description of the Event: Colonist boarded a ship importing chests full of tea and threw it overboard because they were revolting against the tea taxing. boarded a ship importing chests of tea and threw it overboard because they were revolting against the tea taxing. This was important because it caused other riots and it took a long time to clean up and it led to the intolerable acts which punish the colonist because of what they have done with the tea.
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