Causes of the Revolution

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  • French and Indian War

  • Albany Plan of Union

  • Writs of Assistance

  • Proclamation Act

  • Pontiac’s War

  • Sugar act

  • Currency Act

  • The Quartering act

  • Townshend Act

  • Boston Massacre

  • The Tea Act

  • Boston tea party

  • Committees of Correspondence

  • Coercive act

    These acts taxed the colonists so england could get out of debt.The reasons for this event was the french and indian war.The colonists acted in retaliation to these acts.The consequences of these acts were the revolutionary war.

  • Quebec Act

  • Continental Congress

    These were elected by the people, by the colonial legislatures, or by the committees of correspondence of the respective colonies. The colonies presented there were united in a determination to show a combined authority to Great Britain

  • Prohibitory Act

  • Restraining Act

  • New England Restraining Act

  • Lexington and Concord

    kicked off the American Revolutionary War.On the night of April 18, 1775, hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord in order to seize an arms cache. Paul Revere and other riders sounded the alarm, and colonial militiamen began mobilizing to intercept the Redcoat column. A confrontation on the Lexington town green started off the fighting, and soon the British were hastily retreating under intense fire

  • The Battle of Bunker Hill

    The british won the battle of Bunker Hill.Even though the colonists lost it was a huge morale builder for them.This battle happened because after Lexington and Concord the english wanted to show the colonist who still was in charge.

  • Battle of Quebec

  • Common Sense

  • The second Continental concress

  • Policy of Non-Important