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American revolution causes
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French and Indian war
It was a seven year war, for Spain and Great Britian. It ended by the singing of treaties. -
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Causes of the American revolution
It was a seven year war, for Spain and Great Britian. It ended by the singing of treaties. -
The Albany congress
to try to secure the support and cooperation of the Iroquois in fighting the French, also to form a colonial alliance based on a design by Benjamin Franklin. -
The sugar act
It was the first finance ammenment to defence the collonies. The Collonies did not like this act so they stopped buying goods from the british and then the government loses money, so they do what the collonies want because the collonies is where they get their money from. -
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Quatering act
This was the way they repayed to the british by buying their supplies.But the new york people said that they would not do that, that is was not important to imply. -
The stamp act
When they start to take some of the taxes off for the goods for the collonies. But parliment says you have to use stamped paper and have a tax on it to make more money but the people from the collonies do not want to pay a tax so they go against it and boycott and not buy anything from them which makes them loose money. -
Organized Colonial Protest
When congress responds to parliments act or organized protest -
Virginian Resolution
This was the refusal of the stamp act saying they will no longer pass it from what the people in the colony did because of it. -
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Stamp act congress
When 9 out of the 13 colonies decide that the stamp act is unconsitutional because it was just taxted to them and they had no say about it, therefore they had not choice which is unconsitutional. -
Declatory act
Parliament finalises the repeal of the Stamp Act, but declares that it has the right to tax colonies -
Timeshead revenue act
Taxes on tea, glass, lead, paper and paint to help pay for the administration of the colonies. That are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer. John Dickinson publishes the Letter from a Philadelphian Farmer in protest. Colonial assemblies condemn taxation without representation -
The british troops arive in boston
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Boston massacre
Angered by the presence of troops and Britain's colonial policy, a crowd began harassing a group of soldiers guarding the customs house; a soldier was knocked down by a snowball and discharged his musket, sparking a volley into the crowd which kills five civilians. -
Burning of the gaspee
The revenue schooner Gaspee ran aground by Providence Rhode Island and was burnt by local people mad about the enforcement of trade legislation. -
Tea act
In an effort to support the ailing East India Company, Parliament exempted its tea from import duties and allowed the Company to sell its tea directly to the colonies. Americans resented what they saw as an indirect tax subsidising a British company. -
Publication of thomas hutchingson's letters
In these letters, Hutchinson, the Massachusetts governor, advocated a 'great restraint of natural liberty', convincing many colonists of a planned British clamp-down on their freedoms -
The Boston tea party
Mad about the Tea Acts, American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians dump £9,000 of East India Company tea into the Boston harbour. -
Intolerable Acts
Four measures which stripped Massachusetts of self-government and judicial independence following the Boston Tea Party. The colonies responded with a general boycott of British goods. -
Continental Congress
Colonial delegates meet to organise opposition to the Intolerable Acts. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
First engagements of the Revolutionary War between British troops and the Minutemen, who had been warned of the attack by Paul Revere