causes of the american revolution

  • proclamation of 1763

    This was signed by king george the third.It had it so English settlements can't go west of the appalachian mountains.It was also made that all who were in there had to move out.
  • Sugar Act

    The sugar act was were they taxes on sugar and others such as textiles,coffee,wines,and indigo dye. This act was passed to pay the debt brought on by the french indian war. This act was also passed to pay debt on moving and making colonies.
  • stamp act

    all printed things were taxed so for example pamphlets bills documents dice and playing cards. This was bad for the colonist because they were more into reading and how they got news was through news papers witch was one of the taxed things.
  • Townshed act

    The act was on colonist to pay for things like administering tea,glass,lead,and paints. The act also made a custom commissioners.
  • the townshend act

    This taxed things such as paper,tea,glass,leads,and paints.
  • boston massacre

    This happened when a mob harassed a british soldier then guns were fired in the crowd killing 3 instantly morally wound 2 and injuring 6
  • boston tea party

    one day in December a group of men called the "sons of liberty" and they went to the boston harbor. When they went down they dressed up as indians they went up on the ships and dumped about 45 tons of tea. The british knew it was the "sons of liberty".
  • intolerable acts

    This was a series of laws made by the prime minister. This was made in response to the boston tea party. An example is Quebec act
  • boston port act

    This act was made so the boston ports were shut down. This act was made to pay for the amount of tea dumped. This made it so that marblehead was the new port of entry. This was a problem because the port was the main economic driver so it took forever to get the debt paid off.
  • Quartering act

    This act made it so british troops could stay and random peoples homes if barracts were not available.
  • Quebec act

    This act granted government and religion freedom to Quebec. This was a problem because boston wanted this so bad but Quebec got it