Road to the Revolution Project

In preparing your Road to the Revolution Project, please keep the following details in mind.

Required Elements

The events that you must have in your project are as follows:

• Proclamation of 1763
• Quartering Act
• Sugar Act
• Stamp Act
• Stamp Act Congress
• Declaratory Act
• Townshend Act
• Boston Massacre
• Tea Act
• Boston Tea Party
• Intolerable Acts
• First Continental Congress
• Lexington and Concord

Optional Elements

The following are optional items to add as separate entries in your project (keep in mind they
may need to be addressed along with some of the Required Elements):

• Sons of Liberty
• Daughters of Liberty
• Boycotts
• Writs of assistance
• Committees of Correspondence

Each event in your project should include:

• A description of the event, which may answer the questions:

o Who?
o Who won?
o What did they get?
o Why did it happen?
o What were the results?
• How did this event lead to the American Revolution?
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