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Navigation Acts
These acts were vital to the revolution as they were the beginning of the acts and since the British were at war they were not forced upon the colonies very well.
IMPACTS:
The shipping cost went up
Price paid by colonists went up
The colonists were not allowed to trade with other countries
The colonists would smuggle goods into the colonies so they did not have to pay for taxes
That led to the British government getting more strict after their war -
Navigation Acts
The Navigation Acts was the first spark of revolution. The Navigation Acts were created to prevent the colonists from trading with any other country. The acts also taxed things such as ginger, tobacco, cotton, etc. The acts also gave the officers in the colonies, the power of kings. They were allowed to search homes, warehouses and anywhere else without a warrant for untaxed goods. -
French and Indian War
IMPACT:
The war led to taxation in the colonists to pay for the expenses of the war
This created tension between the colonists and the British
The colonists boycotted goods in protest -
French and Indian War
The war was between the British and French. The French fought with the Indians giving it the name for the seven year war. The war was fought for land. Although the French kept its west indies islands and Spain was granted Louisiana, the British received Florida from Spain and Canada from the French further broadening the British Land. The war ended with a Treaty Of Paris. -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act of 1765 required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies. If the barracks were too small to house all the soldiers, then localities were to accommodate the soldiers in local inns, livery stables, ale houses, victualing houses and the houses of sellers of wine. -
Quartering Act Part 2
IMPACT:
The colonists did not like the act
This was an act that the colonists found a hard time to protest
This impacted the colonists when they made the D.O.I and B.O.R making it so people were not forced to house soldiers -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act of 1765 was ratified by the British parliament under King George III. It imposed a tax on all papers and official documents in the American colonies, though not in England. IMPACT:
The colonists did not like the act and were quick to oppose it
The colonist refused to pay the taxes which led to even more acts -
Townshend Act
The Townshend Act was established to help pay the expenses involved in governing the American colonies, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts, which initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. IMPACT:
The colonists were angered by the further taxation on these goods
The colonists protested by boycotting a lot of these goods -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre began the evening of March 5, 1770 with a small argument between British Private Hugh White and a few colonists outside the Custom House in Boston on King Street. The argument began to escalate as more colonists gathered and began to harass and throw sticks and snowballs at Private White. -
Boston Massacre Part 2
IMPACT:
The paper had the telling of the story and was sent across the colonies: This made the British look as if they killed innocent people on purpose
The tension between the two now jumped from aggravation to a real problem for the colonists
The colonist were now full in to protesting any law or act that the British were enforcing -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor. -
Boston Tea Party Part 2
IMPACT:
First major protest/defiance against British government for the colonies
This showed Great Britain that the colonists weren’t going to take taxation and tyranny without a fight
This started the beginning of the rallying to get colonists to make an army -
Intolerable Acts Part 2
IMPACT:
The colonists grouped together and surprised the British
Instead of separating from Boston they all came together
Colonists lost jobs
People had to pay a lot of money for the tea in taxes
They also lost a huge trading post that made it harder to get goods -
Intolerable Acts
One act of the Intolerable Act was the Boston Port Bill Act. The Boston Port Act, passed in March 1774 closed the Port from all commerce and ordered the citizens of Boston to pay a large fine to compensate for the tea thrown into the river during the Boston Tea Party. -
Patrick Henry's Speech
A gifted orator and major figure in the American Revolution, his rousing speeches—which included a 1775 speech to the Virginia legislature in which he famously declared, “Give me liberty, or give me death!”—fired up America's fight for independence. IMPACT:
The speech gave all the people in attendance the motivation to start getting troops to fight Great Britain
The speech also had colonists realize the only way to stop everything was to fight back -
Lexington and Concord
On the night of April 18, 1775, hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord in order to seize an arms cache. Paul Revere and other riders sounded the alarm, and colonial militiamen began mobilizing to intercept the Redcoat column. IMPACT:
This led to the first battle
This made it so the colonists were blindsided
This gave the battle a fair fight and fair battleground
The colonists knew with this here was the beginning of the war