causes of the american revolutin

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  • Proclamation of 1763

    The proclamation of 1763 signed in by King George. The England, prohibited any English settles by the west of the

  • Sugar Act

    the British is aimed at the ending of the trade in the sugar and molasses. from the french and the dutch west indies and there providing

  • Quartering Act

    When the British Parliament required local goverments to house soldiers. They have to give them food, fuel and places to stay. If the places were to small they had to find them places like inns or stables.

  • Stamp Act

    British parliamentary raised revenue through direct taxation of all colonial commercial and legal papers, newspapers, pamphlets, cards, almanacs, and dice. All of the colonists were mad about it because they thought the British Parliament shouldnt have the right to tax them. The taxes for the Stamp Act had to be paid for with British money. They would not take colonial paper money.

  • Townsend Acts

    after the repeal of the Stamp Act. They collected revenue from the colonists in America by putting customs duties on imports of glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea. The colonists got really mad about it and rioted against it. When they rioted the government sent in troops, leading to the Boston Massacre in 1770.

  • Boston Massacre

    The colonists were mad about the Townshend Acts so they were boycotted British goods and rioted. The British government sent in troops, and that is when the Boston Massacre in 1770 happened. Five colonists were killed by British soldiers as the soldiers tried to stop a riot

  • Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that happened on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists were angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.

  • Boston Port Act

    On March 25, 1774, the British Parliament passed the Boston Port Act. The act was meant to force Boston into paying for tea dumped into the harbor four months earlier during the Boston Tea Party.

  • Massachusetts Bay Regulating Act

    This act was to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party and for acts of colonial resistance. By taking away their democratic rights to elect their local officials and to hold Town Meetings. By taking away their rights to elect officials, the colonists had no political means to make changes.

  • Quebec Act

    It was passed by the British Parliament to institute a permanent administration in Canada replacing the temporary government created at the time of the Proclamation of 1763. It gave the French Canadians complete religious freedom and restored the French form of civil law.