causes of the American Revolution

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  • The proclamation of 1763

    The proclamation of 1763

    In 1763 the Proclamation was made by a British person that produced the boundaries in the Appalachian Mountains in the Eastern Continental Divide.In the decreed on October 7, 1763,the proclamation ban the Anglo-Americans colonist to settle in the land from the French and Indian War.In the measure that had advanced the British governmental efforts to discouraged the westward expansion in the decade before the American revolution.
  • The sugar Act

    The sugar Act

    It was once on April 5,1764,the parliament passed to a modified version of the Sugar and the Molasses Act(1733),it was about to expire.Under the Molasses Act the colonial retailers have been required to pay the taxes of six pence per gallon on the importation of the overseas molasses.But it’s because of corruption,they more often than not evaded for the taxes and the undercut the intention of the tax---that the English product would be greater cheaper than that fashioned the French West Indies.
  • The Stamp Act

    The Stamp Act

    The Stamp Act was on March 22, 1765, the British Parliament had finally passed the Stamp Act or also known as a Duties in the American Colonies Act. It was required that colonists to pay taxes on every single page of printed paper they had used.The tax had also included fees on playing cards, dice, and newspapers.
  • The Declaratory Act

    The Declaratory Act

    It stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain. Parliament had directly taxed the colonies for revenue in the Sugar Act (1764) and the Stamp Act (1765).Declaratory Declaratory Act, (1766), declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act.
  • The Townshend Act

    The Townshend Act

    The Townshend Acts renewed a fierce debate over the British Parliament’s right to tax the colonies.The The Townshend Acts, passed in 1767 and 1768, were designed to raise revenue for the British Empire by taxing its North American colonies. They were met with widespread protest in the colonies, especially among merchants in Boston.
  • The Boston Massacre

    The Boston Massacre

    The Boston Massacre was the confrontation in Boston on March 5,1770,in which is an group of nine British soldiers that killed five people of the crowd of three or four hundred who were verbally and throwing various missiles.The event was publicized as“a massacre”by being the leading Patriots such as Paul Revere & Samuel Adams.The British troops had been stationed in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay since 1768 but in order to support crown-appointed the officials.
  • The Battle of Alamance

    The Battle of Alamance

    Having officers, a battle plan, and more weaponry (which included eight cannon), the royal governor and his men easily defeated the ill-prepared Regulators. There were approximately 2,000 backcountry farmers called Regulators and around 1,000 militia troops (citizen soldiers) under the command of Royal Governor William Tryon involved in the two-hour battle.The The Battle of Alamance was fought on Thursday, May 16, 1771. It pitted two groups of North Carolinians against each other.
  • The Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party was a American political and the mercantile was protested by the Sons of Liberty in boston,Massachusetts,on December 16,1773.The target was a Tea Act of May 10,1773,which had allowed the British East India Company to sell the tea from the Chinese in American colonies without having to pay taxes apart from those who imposed by the Townshend Acts.The Sons of the Liberty strongly opposed that the taxes in the Townshend Act as an violation of their rights.
  • The Intolerable Acts

    The Intolerable Acts

    In Great Britain, these laws were referred to as the Coercive Acts.The The Intolerable Acts (passed/Royal assent March 31–June 22, 1774) were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British Government.
  • The Lord Dunmore's War

    The Lord Dunmore's War

    The Governor of Virginia during the conflict was John Murray,4th Earl of Dunmore Lord Dunmore. He asked the Virginia House of Burgesses to declare a state of war with the Indian nations and call out the militia.The conflict resulted from escalating violence between white settlers,who,in accordance with previous treaties[which?]were exploring and moving into land south of the Ohio River(modern West Virginia southwestern Pennsylvania and Kentucky),and Native Americans,who had rights to hunt there.