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Road to Revolution
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The Proclamtion of 1763
This proclantion did not allow colonists to settle west of thr Appalachian Mountains. The British government feare th conflict between colonist and Native Americans would lead to another war. They also could not afford to pay British troops to defend the western lands. Colonists were enraged by this proclamation because they felt they had won the right to settle in Ohio River Valley afte winning the Frenh and Indian War -
Quartering Act
These Quartering Acts ordered the local governments of the American colonies to provide housing and provisions for British soldiers. The purpose of these laws was to take back hold of the colonies. The result was the Quartering Act of 1765, which went far beyond what Gage had requested -
Townshend Acts
Townshend Acts, 1767, originated by Charles Townshend and passed by the English Parliament shortly after the repeal of the Stamp Act. They were designed to collect revenue from the colonists in America by putting customs duties on imports of glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea. -
Tea Act on Boston Tea Party
1773, Britain passed the Tea Act. By this Act, about 17 million pounds of surplus teawas proposed to be sold in America, by selling it. The tea would be sold at an extremely cheap rate wholesalers America were going to be seriously affected. For this reason, the Act was resisted by the colonies. -
Intoreable Acts
Intoreable Acts engraged The Thriteen Colonies. The Thirteen Colonies would later become the United States. But at that time they were very much a part of the American Revolusion. -
Battles pf Lexington and Concord
The first shots starting the revolution were fired at Lexington, Massachusetts. On April 18, 1775, British General Thomas Gage sent 700 soldiers to destroy guns and ammunition the colonists had stored in the town of Concord, just outside of Boston. They also planned to arrest Samuel Adams and John Hancock, two of the key leaders of the patriot movement. -
Olive Branch Petition
Many Americans did not want to break away forever from Great Britain. Many were angry with British and treatment, but they thought that an agreement could somehow be reached with the King that would right the wrongs done to them. Declaring independence was a hope of some of the patriots, but not of most. Even when the Second Continental Congress met for the first time in May 1775, the majority was not yet ready to declare indepedence. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.
