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The French and Indian War, also known as The Seven Years’ War, ended in France, Great Britain, and Spain signing the Treaty of Paris. -
Following the French and Indian war, the British needed money to pay for it post war related responsibilities. In the hopes of gaining back revenue from its North American colonies, British legislation passed the sugar act. The sugar act, also known as the revenue act, which created to limit trade in foreign processed sugar, and molasses. Colonists responded to the sugar act without burst in protest. Participant located in Massachusetts gather together, and spoke out against the taxation. -
The British Parliament applied tax directly on American colonists. The act taxed newspapers, pamphlets, almanacs, broadsides, legal documents, dice, and playing cards. The act came during the time when the British Empire had been in severe debt from the seven-year war. Colonists reacted in mass violence, in the hope of intimidating stamp collectors into resigning. -
On the same day that the stamp act was repealed, the declaratory act was passed by Parliament. The British did not want to get rid of the legalization of it’s right to tax the colonies. The statement of this act was to ensure that the parliament still had powers to make laws and taxation directed to the people of American colonies. In response to the declaratory act, the colonists were angered. They thought another country should not have the right to control them. -
The Townshend acts was another act in which the British Parliament desired to raise revenue from the north American colonies. Specifically, the Townshend act was made to pay for governors and judges. New taxes were applied on importance of paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea. Due to the prior protests of the stamp act, the British had thought the colonists would be OK with taxes on imports. They were wrong, once again the colonist responded with violent protests. -
The main goal of this act was to lessen the great amount of tea held by the financially weak British East India Company located and it’s London warehouses. The idea was to keep this company alive. American colonists were upset, because they thought it was yet another strategy of the British Parliament getting economic colonial support. On December 16, 1773 colonists gathered on East India Company ships, and they dumped massive amounts of tea overboard. -
The Beginning of the American Revolution was triggered by feud between Great Britain, and the American colonies. Demanding their Independence, the American colonies rebelled from British government. Armed conflict began in April 1775, where colonial militiamen and British troops battled. This battle was called Lexington and Concord.
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