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Causes of the American Revolution
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The End of the French and Indian War
The French and Indian War The end of the French and Indian War was bad for the colonists. They had many taxes .The British lost a lot of money in the war and made a huge war debt. So, they taxed the colonist to get out of the debt. The colonists started to get mader and mader -
Proclamation of 1763
proclamation of 1763 After the French and Indian War the English took France's land. The English banned all colonists from going past the Appalachian Mountains. The colonists believed they could live where ever they wanted. The colonists ignored the British because it was impossible for them to enforce. -
Sugar Act
Sugar Act
This tax was passed to tax sugar,molasses, and other thing. Then anyone who smuggled it was harshly punished. And they would boycott british goods -
Stamp Act
Stamp Act when the Stamp Act was passed colonist had to to buy aditional stamps for documents like bills, contracts, newspapers, playing cards ect. -
The Quartering Act
Quartering ActThis act let British soldiers into your home and you had to cook and clean for them or you would be punished. -
The Townshend Act
The Townshend Act
Britain wont tax gooods in the colonies tax on imports including Tea, and paper. Also the Writs of Assistance allowed British custums officials to search ships. -
The Boston Massacre
The Boston massacre
The Boston Massacre happend at 9:00 pm. A group of protesting colonists threw snowballs and rocks at a group of British soldiers. -
The Tea Act
Tea Act
The tax taxed tea so you could only bye it from england. They monopolyed tea so the would get more money from the colonies. then the colonies boycotted the tea. -
The Boston Tea Party
When the colinests meet was over they planned to go to the ship with all the tea on it and dump it into the sea. Then they all dressed up into native americans and borded the ship and started to break open all the barrels and crates and started to dump them into the sea. Over 90,000 pounds of tea was dumped into the sea. -
Coercive/Intolerable Act
Coercive/Intolerable acts
This is what the colonists would name all of the acts that were passed like the stamp act , sugar act or the tea act. -
The First Continental Congress
When they all met in 1774 they talked about all the unnessasary taxs passed. Then they started to talk about war so then they gathered up all of the men they could find and trained them to fight and gatherd up amo and weaspons. -
Paul Revere's Ride
This night paul Revere rided with dr. prescott, and samuel dwauls and whent town to town telling people that the British regulars were coming. -
Lexington and Concord
L:exington and Concord
When a bunch of american soilders were walking then British soilders came and then they got into a fight then British soilders fired on them then the war started.
