Events that led to the American Revolution

  • Currency Act

    Currency Act

    Allowed Parliament to control the printing and use of paper money in the colonies
  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act

    Forced colonists to provide British soldiers with food and shelter when needed
  • Townsend Act

    Townsend Act

    Tax on imports of glass, lead, paints, paper and tea
  • Tea Act

    Tea Act

    Passed to prevent bankruptcy of East India Company and granted them a monopoly on tea sales in the colonies
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts

    Laws passed as punishment for the Boston Tea Party
    - Port of Boston closed until colonists pay for tea they destroyed
    -British soldiers could commit any crime without consequences