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American Revolution Build Up Stantial

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    Revolution Build Up

  • Treaty of Paris

    Treaty of Paris
    The British win the French and Indian War. France cedes North American territory to the British
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    Pontiac's Rebellion

    Uprising of Native Americans in the Great Lakes region after the French and Indian War in response to unfair treatment by the British.

  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act
    The Sugar Act actually reduced the tax on molasses, but reienforced the implementation (Stopped smuggeling) of the tax which angered colonists who were used to a system of Salutary Neglect
    1. Reduces tax on sugar and molasses
    2. Increases enforcement of tax collection, specifically cracking down on smuggling
    3. Colonist did not like the change, used to salutary neglect

  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    1. England requires a tax on all printed materials, stamp on the document proved that the tax was paid
    2. Colonists were outraged as this tax was purely for British revenue
    3. Colonists complained that they had no parliamentary representation a. No one from the colonies had a say in the taxes being placed on them
    4. Stamp Act Congress met in New York, decided to ban British goods until the Stamp Act was Repealed
    5. Sons of Liberty organize boycott in Boston

  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act
    Under this act colonists must provide housing and supplies for British soldiers stationed in their colony

  • Declaratory Act

    Declaratory Act
    Repeals the Stamp Act, BUT reaffirms Englands ability to make laws to regulate the colonies.

  • Townshend Acts

    Townshend Acts
    Tax on paper, led, paint, glass, and tea. These taxes are for the sole purpose of generating revenue for England.

  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    Colonists and British soldiers get into an altercation in Boston and 5 colonists are shot and killed

  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    Sons of Liberty sneak onto British Tea Ships and dump cargo into Boston Harbor.

  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts
    British response to the Boston Tea Party.
    - Shut down Boston Harbor until the tea was paid for
    -Took away Massachusetts right to self-govern

  • 1st Continental Congress

    1st Continental Congress
    12 of the 13 colonies send representatives to discuss the Intolerable Acts.
    1st time colonies unite in one government action