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Causes of Revolution
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Proclomation of 1763
Proclamation of 1763 This was an attempt to prevent the colonists from moving West to the Appalachain Mountains. -
End of the French and Inidan War
The French and Indian War Ended on this day. -
Sugar Act
Sugar and molasses had extremely high taxes and colonist were boycotting. The taxes were unfair and ridiculusly high. -
The Stamp Act
This is when parliment taxed all imported goods -
Quartering Act
Quartering Act This was when the British Parliment forced the colonists to house the British soldiers. -
The Townshend Acts
This is when the British were taxing people on imported goods like glass, paper, and tea. -
Boston Massacre
This was when the British soldiers were in Boston, looking for jobs for extra money and then a colonist started to tease him and then a crowd started to accumulate and five colonists were killed by the British. -
The Tea Act
The Tea Act was when the East India Company was selling its surplus tea during its financial breakout. The prices were lower than what the Parliament wanted. This act led to the Boston Tea Party. -
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was when the British allowed the tea to be directly imported form India. The colonists took this as a trick to be taxed without representation. Then, two men in Boston dressed as Mohawk Indians and dumped all of the tea in the ocean. -
The Intolerable Acts
Punishment for thr Boston Tea Party parliment banned town meetings for MA. They also closed the harbor and they made a new law called the quartering act. This act made colonists house british soldiers. -
The First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was held in Phillidalphia, Pennsylvaina because it was in the middle of everything and meetings were banned in Boston. -
Paul Revere's Ride
This was when Paul Revere rode to Concord. He was informing them that the British would attack by land or by sea. He also rode through Medford and Lexington. The British were attacking by sea. -
The Lexington and Concord
This event in the colonies occured when the British attacked them by coming across the sea. Paul Revere was the man that took his midnight ride to inform them that the British were going to attack them.
