Causes of the American revolution

  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763

    This Proclamation was in 1763 signed by King George the 3rd of England.It prevented any English settlements west of the Appalachian Mountains. It required those that are already settled in these regions to return East in an attempt to ease tension with Native Americans.
  • Sugar Act of 1764

    Sugar Act of 1764

    This act was passed by Parliament to pay for the war debt that was brought on by the French and Indian war. To pay for expenses like running the colonies and newly acquired terrors. The Sugar Act increased the duties on importing sugar and many other items like, textiles, coffee, wine and indigo, which is a dye.
  • Stamp Act of 1765

    Stamp Act of 1765

    In this act all printed materials were taxed. Those included newspapers, pamphlets, bills, legal documents,licenses, almances, dice and playing cards. It was also one of the first direct tax on the American Colonies. It was to offset the British Military organisation in America.
  • The Quartering Act

    The Quartering Act

    This act let royal troops stay in anyone's houses or empty buildings if there were no available barracks. It also required people to provide food if they stayed there. Not just food everything, if there was a bed in their kids room the royal troops would get it. You had to provide fuel and transportation to.
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    This event happened when a mop harassed a few of the British soldiers causing them to fire their muskets pointblank into the large crowd which killed 3 people and wounding 2 others and injuring six. This happened when tension started growing so they sent someone. This was mostly caused by the killing of Christopher Seider and the pardon of his killer.
  • The Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party

    On an afternoon in December a group of older men that called themselves "Sons Of Liberty" and were dressed like Mohawk Indians and they went to the Boston harbor. They got on 3 different British ships, The Beaver, The Elanor, and the Dartmouth. When they were on those ships they dumped forty-five tons of tea in the Boston harbor.
  • Boston Port Act

    Boston Port Act

    This is when they closed the port of Boston until the price of all the dumped tea was recovered. They moved the capital of Massachusetts to Salem. They also made Marblehead the official port of entering for the Massachusetts Colony.
  • Impartial Administration Of Justice Act

    Impartial Administration Of Justice Act

    This act allowed the royal governors to move any trial they wanted to other colonies or even just to England if he would decide that the Judges in those colonies definitely wouldn't make a fair case. This act suspended the right of any government to self-government themselves. If the governors think the people are to rebellious they would send them to someone that they know would make them treated unfair.
  • Massachusetts Regulating Act

    Massachusetts Regulating Act

    This law made all of the officers subject to appointment by there royal governor. They also banned all of their town meetings that the Royal governor didn't take approval of. This act gave the royally appointed governor a lot of wide ranging powers. The reason of this act was to punish Massachusetts for the Boston tea Party and other colonial stuff.
  • Quebec Act

    Quebec Act

    This act let the civil government and religious freedom to the Cathlocis living in Quebec. This act use to be known as the British North America Act before they changed it. This act also repealed the loyalty oath.