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causes of the american revolution

  • Navagation acts

    Navagation acts
    The Navagation acts was a patrol of trade routes so nobody smuggles.
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    French and Indian war

    started by the British when they took the Ohio river valley and the Indians were mad and allied with the French and it started a war that lasted 7 years.
  • Townshend acts

    Townshend acts
    was a series of acts passed by the parliament of Great Britian.
  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763
    A law that the king issued forbidding settlements in the west appalachian mountains.
  • sugar act

    sugar act
    the sugar act was a taxation on molasses and sugar and it caused colonist to boycott
  • stamp act

    stamp act
    the stamp act was a taxation on all paper products like letters stamps ships papers legal documents etc.
  • The quartering act

    The quartering act
    required colonist to feed and house British soldiers
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    The Boston Massacre was an event where colonist threw rocks and other objects at British soldiers and while the British soldiers stopped colonist walked up and five colonist were killed by the British soldiers.
  • Committees of correspondance

    Committees of correspondance
    The British colonies established rules on the colonies.
  • The tea act

    The tea act
    The tea act was a tax on tea by the British east India tea company to place a monopoly on the colonies.
  • Boston tea party

    Boston tea party
    the sons of liberty dressed up as the Mohawk Indians and raided a ship dumping large amounts of tea in the bay
  • The intolerable acts

    The intolerable acts
    The Intolerable Acts were the Americans saying for a series of bad laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party.
  • First continental congress

    First continental congress
    The congress convened to talk about their different options concerning the British offenses in a way.
  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

    Battle of Lexington and Concord
    The battle of Lexington and Concord was a British invasion on the Colonies to try and take over towns.
  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    Battle of Bunker Hill
    Bunker hill was a British Fortress in the colonies that the French attacked with the Indians.
  • Thomas paine and common sense

    Thomas paine and common sense
    Common Sense was one of the most informational booklets in American history, the American public to support the Revolution and condemn the ruling in England.
  • The second continental congress

    The second continental congress
    The Continental Congress gathered again in where they would become the government of the colonies until the end of the Revolutionary War.