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French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was the actually started the American Revolution. The war cost a lot of money and they wanted the Americans to pay for it. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act, however, was a direct tax on the colonists and led to an uproar in America over an issue that was to be a major cause of the Revolution: taxation without representation. -
Quatering Act
The Quatering Act made colonists provide quaters and supplies for British troops. The Americans did not think this was fair. And this was one the reasons for the American Revolution. -
Stamp Act Congress
The Stamp Act Congress was the first attempt at colonial unity against the Britiah. The believed that Americans had the same rights as the English. -
Intorlerable Act
The Intolerable Acts were passed in spring 1774, and helped cause the American Revolution. The Intolerable Acts were a series of laws issued by King George III in response to the colonies' Boston Tea Party. The king began taxing products from the colonies, and they were not happy about this. They began to rebel in various ways, the most notable of which was the Boston Tea Party. -
Townshend Duties
the Townshend Acts imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies. Townshend hoped the acts would defray imperial expenses in the colonies, but many Americans viewed the taxation as an abuse of power, resulting in the passage of agreements to limit imports from Britain. In 1770, Parliament repealed all the Townshend duties except the tax on tea, leading to a temporary truce between the two sides in the years before the American Revolution. -
Boston Massacre
The shooting that was heard around the world. Basically fired uo the American Revolution. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act of 1773 was one of several measures imposed on the American colonists by the heavily indebted British government in the decade leading up to the American Revolutionary War -
Boston Tea Party
This famed act of American colonial defiance served as a protest against taxation. Seeking to boost the troubled East India Company, British Parliament adjusted import duties with the passage of the Tea Act in 1773. -
1st Continental Congress
the Continental Congress served as the government of the 13 American colonies and later the United States. The First Continental Congress, which was comprised of delegates from the colonies, met in 1774 in reaction to the Coercive Acts, a series of measures imposed by the British government on the colonies in response to their resistance to new taxes. In 1775, the Second Continental Congress convened after the American Revolutionary War
