CAUSES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

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  • TREATY OF PARIS

    TREATY OF PARIS
    The Treaty of Paris of Feb. 10, 1763, was signed by Great Britain, France, and Spain. Together with the treaty of Hubertusburg, it terminated the Seven Years War.

  • TEA ACT

    TEA ACT
    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.

  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763
    The Proclamation of 1763 was issued by the British King George III. It was made following the British victory over France in the French and Indian Wars. It also benefited the Natvies.

  • SUGAR ACT

    SUGAR ACT
    Titled The American Revenue Act of 1764. On April 5, 1764, Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act (1733), which was about to expire. Under the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses.

  • QUATERING ACT

    QUATERING ACT
    Colonial assemblies required to pay for supplies to British garrisons. The New York assembly argued that it could not be forced to comply.

  • STAMP ACT CONGRESS

    STAMP ACT CONGRESS
    Representatives from nine of the thirteen colonies declare the Stamp Act unconstitutional as it was a tax levied without their consent.

  • BOSTON Massacre

    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.

  • BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL

    BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL
    The first major battle of the War of Independence. Sir William Howe dislodged William Prescott's forces overlooking Boston at a cost of 1054 British casualties to the Americans' 367.

  • BATTLE OF LEXINGTON AND CONCORD

    BATTLE OF LEXINGTON AND CONCORD
    The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.They were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy and Cambridge, near Boston. The battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen of its colonies on the mainland of British America.