Causes of the Revolutionary War

By JHiley
  • Mercantilism

    Mercantilism

    Mercantilism is when a place exports more than it imports, symbolizing profit rather than debt.
  • House of Burgesses

    House of Burgesses

    House of Burgesses was a meeting where people were sent to a central location to represent their colony. This is the first evidence of self-government.
  • Mayflower Compact

    Mayflower Compact

    While traveling on The Mayflower, an agreement was signed that the Puritans would make their own laws.
  • Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

    Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

    Written document made in Connecticut, considered to be the first constitutional document. Limited governmental power, focused on giving rights to the people.
  • Triangular Trade

    Triangular Trade

    Trade between the Americas, Africa, and the West Indies. The Americas and the West Indies mostly traded goods, while Africa traded slaves.
  • Maryland Toleration Act

    Maryland Toleration Act

    Did not require people to be Protestant or Catholic, gave religious freedom in Maryland, excluding Judiasm.
  • Navigation Acts

    Navigation Acts

    Emphasized overseas trade, made it illegal to trade locally. Gave jobs to the shipbuilding industry, but took away jobs from traders in the colonies.
  • John Peter Zenger

    John Peter Zenger

    Wrote a controversial article sbout free expression in a newspaper that he was put on trial for. This eventually led to freedom of press in America.
  • Great Awakening

    Great Awakening

    Religious revival in the colonies, they started to think differently than the Church of England and the Anglican Church. Many different kinds of churches started to form.
  • French and Indian War

    French and Indian War

    Alliance of the French and Native Americans formed against the British and the colonies. Colonies gained land but taxed from England were raised.
  • Albany Plan of Union

    Albany Plan of Union

    Benjamin Franklin's written idea of how the colonies should operate. It wasn't accepted but spurred other ideas.
  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763

    England banned the colonists from settling west of the Appalachain Mountains to protect the Native Americans. Due to England being overseas, it wasn't heavily enforced.
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

    Heavily taxed colonial goods, attempt to promote English goods. Led to colonists boycotting the English goods.
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    Colonists protest about lack of privacy and high taxes, started to turn violent. British soldiers ordered to fire, leaving 5 colonists dead.
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts

    Result of Boston Tea Party, British responds by closing harbors and making curfews. Heavily affects Boston.
  • Tea Act

    Tea Act

    Lowers price of tea, but gives colonial tea business to the East India Trading Company. Colonists respond through the Boston Tea Party.
  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act

    Part of the Intolerable Acts, housed British soldiers in colonial homes. Frustrated the colonists, they felt their privacy was being violated.
  • Lexington and Concord

    Lexington and Concord

    Colonial militias, called minutemen, fought against the British to defend colonial rights and to gain freedom.
  • Olive Branch Petition

    Olive Branch Petition

    Colonial letter sent to England to end the fighting, refused to be read by King George III.
  • Common Sense

    Common Sense

    Written by Thomas Paine, stated that England and the colonies should be separated. Helped promote independence.
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

    Successful, well known document written by the colonists to England to demand for freedom. Signed by founding fathers.