Causes/Events of the American Revolution

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    French and Indian War

    A war between the French and British over land and control of the fur trade in North America. Britain won the war and gained control of the Mississippi Rive, land east of the Mississipi, and parts of Canada.
  • The Proclamation of 1763

  • Stamp Act

    The Stamp Act was when Great Britain raised the Taxes to America.
  • Stamp Act

    The stamp act was a British Parliment that taxed America in every newspaper printed or anything that got printed.
  • Sons of Liberty

    The Sons of Liberty was an organization created to protest against Great Britain and the Samp Act
  • Decleration Act

    The Declaration Act was a protest against the Stamp Act. Which it made the Stamp Act to retreat or it made Great Britain to stop taxing evert printing newspaper.
  • Townshend Acts

    It was a series of acts passed, by the Parliment of Great Britain.
  • Boston Massacre

    The Boston Massacre was the killing of 5 colonists by the Armed forces of Great Britain. They used the word "Massacre" as propaganda. It sparked the American Revolution.
  • Committees of Correspondance

    The Committiees of Correspondace was when governments organized by the Patriot Leaders of the Thirteen colonies. In the day of the American Revolution.
  • Tea Act

    The Tea Act was an act of parliment of Great Britain. With the goal or reducing the amount of tea of the Company British East Company.
  • Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea party was when the Sons of Liberty and colonists dressed themselves as Native Americans to dump the Tea overboard into the Boston Harbor. In the protest against the Tea Act.
  • Intolerable Acts

    It was a series of acts that were ment to punish Massachussetts for dumping 9,000lbs of Tea into Boston Harbor.
  • Lexington and Concord

    It was when British Armed forces went to Concord and destroyed American weapons. It is know for one of the first battles of the American Revolution.
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