Causes of Revolutionary War

  • French and Indian War

    French and Indian War
    1754-1763
    funding war led to national debt and the French sided with America
    William Pitt and James Wolfe
    part of the first global war and not all natives sided with the Fench
  • Treaty of Paris

    Treaty of Paris
    it ends the french/indian war
    British people and Portuguese people
    ended French and Indian war and it’s also known as Peace of Paris
  • Proclamation of 1763

    1763
    It was the most significant sign that the British was taking interest in America again
    King George III and Thomas Gage
    Led to a revolt of Native Americans and economic benefits for Britain
  • Declaratory Act

    Declaratory Act
    an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the Sugar Act.
  • Quatering Act

    a name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing.
  • Townshend Acts

    Townshend Acts
    Passed by parliament of Great Britain
  • Boston Massacre

    The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars
  • Boston Tea Party

    a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773.
  • 1st Continental Congress

    meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution.
  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War.