Causes of the American Revolution

By annikawallace
  • British win French and Indian War

    British win French and Indian War

    The British win the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which caused a lot of debt for Great Britain. They, in turn, taxed the colonists.
  • Townshend Acts

    Townshend Acts

    These were more invasive taxes on the colonists. They were repealed in 1770, except for the tax on tea, which would later induce the Boston Tea Party.
    Sugar Act 1764~ sugar, molasses, silk, wine, coffee, and indigo,
    Stamp Act, 1765 ~ First direct tax on colonists, caused outrage. Sons of Liberty organized mass meetings and demonstration against taxes. Petitioning for the King to repeal act. Repealed in 1767
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists as unrest grew.
  • Burning of the Gaspee

    Burning of the Gaspee

    Taken to Britain to be tried, considered this unfair since they were not in the presence of their peers. This was later put into the American Bill of Rights.
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    American colonists dress up as Native Americans and dump British tea into the harbor.

  • Intolerable Acts

    Coercive Acts, Quebec Act
  • Battles of Lexington and Concord

    Battles of Lexington and Concord

  • George Washington appointed general

    George Washington appointed general

  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    Battle of Bunker Hill

  • First Continental Congress held

    First Continental Congress held

    It was then that they decided to boycott British goods.
  • Common Sense pamphlet published

    Common Sense pamphlet published

    by Thomas Paine. Spoke about natural rights of man.
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence