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Causes of the American Revolution
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End of French and Indian War
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End of the French and Indian War
They say that the [French and Indian war](<a href='http://ngeorgia.cot >End of The French and Indian War info</a>) was the bloodiest war of the 18th century. It took more lives than the American Revolution! -
Proclomation of 1763
This link gives you great information about the [Proclomation of 1763.](<a href='http://www.ushistory.org/us/9a.)
The purpose of the proclomation of independence was to organize Great Britans new North American empire and to stabillize the relations of the Native Americans. -
Sugar act
This [link](a href='http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/sugaract) will tell you about the great fights and battles over the Tea Actpassed by the British.
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Stamp Act
This [link](a href='http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/history/stamp-act.html' ) gives you a short but brief paragraph of how the Stamp Act was passed and information about the Stamp Act.
The Stamp Act was Parliament's first serious attempt to assert governmental authority over the colonies. Great Britain was faced with a massive national debt following the Seven Years War -
Quartering act
<a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartering_Acts' >This link gives you a variety of different information about the Quartering Act when British Soldiers could knock on your door and feed and house them.
each colonial assembly was directed to provide for the basic needs of soldiers stationed within its borders -
Townshed Act
<a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townshend_Acts' >This link gives you discriptive information about the Townshend Act and the great stories during the Townshend Act. originated by Charles Townshend and passed by the English Parliament shortly after the repeal of the Stamp act. -
Boston Massacre
<a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Massacre' >This link is long but very descriptive with many facts about The Boston Massacre.
called the Boston Riot by the British, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five civilian men. British troops had been stationed in Boston, capital of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, since 1768 in order to protect and support crown-appointed colonial officials attempting to enforce unpopular Parliamentary legislation. -
Tea Act
<a href='http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/teaact.htm' >This link gives you facts about the amazing Tea Act.
The Tea Act was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. Its principal overt objective was to reduce the massive surplus of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses.Tea smuggled into Britain's North American colonies. -
Boston tea party
<a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party' >This linkis one of the many links about the Boston Tea Party. But this link gives you the most and best information of all of them.This iconic 1846 lithograph by Nathaniel Currier was entitled "The Destruction of Tea at Boston Harbor"; the phrase "Boston Tea Party" had not yet become standard. Contrary to Currier's depiction, few of the men dumping the tea were actually disguised as Indians.
The Boston Tea Party was a direct ac -
Coercive/Intolerable Act
<a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intolerable_Acts' >This link tells you about the Intolerable Acts, or as the British call them, The Coercive Acts.The Intolerable Acts or the Coercive Acts are names used to describe a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Britain's colonies in North America. The acts triggered outrage and resistance in the Thirteen Colonies that later became the United States, and were important developments in the growth of the American Revol -
The first Continental Congress
<a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Continental_Congress' >This link gives you the facts you need to know all about the Continental Congress!The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen North American colonies that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. It was called in response to the passage of the Coercive Acts (also known as Intolerable Acts by the Colonial Americans) -
Paul Revere's Ride
<a href='http://www.paulreverehouse.org/ride/' >This link gives you options like Paul's words or The real story and more."Paul Revere's Ride" (1860) is a poem by an American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that commemorates the actions of American patriot Paul Revere on April 18, 1775. -
Lexington and Concord
<a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles_of_Lexington_and_Concord' >This link gives you facts about the amazing battle at Lexington and Concord.The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.[9][10] They were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge, near Boston. The battles marked the outbreak of op
