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King George III's decree which banned colonial settlement west of the Appalachians was the first in a series of British actions that led to the American Revolution. -
The goal of the act was to raise revenue for Britain to pay part of the cost of a standing army in North America. It began the controversy over Britain taxing the colonies when they had no representatives in Parliament a direct cause of the American Revolution and the War for Independence. -
Colonists objected to the Stamp Act and the Quartering Act for the same reason. Both extracted money from Americans without their consent, so both violated the principle of taxation without representation. -
Having no representation in Parliament, the American colonists saw the acts as an abuse of power. When the colonists resisted, Britain sent troops to collect the taxes, further heightening the tensions that led to the American Revolutionary War. -
he Boston Massacre was a signal event leading to the Revolutionary War. It led directly to the Royal Governor evacuating the occupying army from the town of Boston. It would soon bring the revolution to armed rebellion throughout the colonies. -
The Tea Act led directly to a protest known as the Boston Tea Party. In that incident, the colonists dumped 342 chests of East India Company tea into the ocean. The Boston Tea Party was one of the events that led to the American Revolution. A tax on tea was not new to the colonists. -
This new act allowed royal governors, rather than colonial legislatures, to find homes and buildings to quarter or house British soldiers. This only further enraged the colonists by having what appeared to be foreign soldiers boarded in American cities and taking away their authority to keep the soldiers distant.