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Causes of the American Revolution

  • Treaty of Paris

    Treaty of Paris
    The final document that offically ended the French and Indian War. It was established in Paris, France. In the document it stated that the French lost all their land in North America.
  • Very first taxation without the colonists approval.

    Very first taxation without the colonists approval.
    The Sugar Act was the first tax that Britian coerced on its North American colonists. Sugar Act stated that anything sugar releated would have to be taxed of 3 cent extra.
  • Stamp Act

    The Stamp Act, was an act that required any printed materials will be taxed. The money collected would be used for protection of the American frontier near the Appalachian Mountain.
  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act
    An act that stated that Great Britian can leave its soldiers in American barracks and public houses. Also if the soldiers outnumber the house hold number they can stay in alehouses, barns. and other bulidings.
  • Boston Massacre (Bloody Massacre)

    Boston Massacre (Bloody Massacre)
    Boston Massacre, was a riot formed by angry anit-tax moobs in Boston. The shooting started becuase one guy thought to get a rock and encase in snow and threw at the soldiers, which caused a panic and led up to the deaths of 5 colonist.
  • Tea act

    Tea act
    An act that British East India Company Tea imposed that any tea imported or exported will be taxed.
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    The act done by "Sons of Liberty", a Massachusetts anti-tax group led by John Hancock and Samuel Adams. Who dressed as Mowhawk Indians and dumped the British tea into the Boston habor.
  • Intolerable Act

    Intolerable Act
    An Act that had 3 tax to it. The act was passed by Parliament to punish Boston for the Boston Tea Party. The act made Boston harbor close, public meetings are made illegal, military rule imposed in the colony until the tea was paid.
  • One if by land, two if by sea!

    One if by land, two if by sea!
    That night Paul Revere and other riders of the night rode around towns to towns warning its colonists that the British was coming. While sharing that news Paul told the Old North Church that if the British are coming by land to place two lamp by sea and one lamp if they are coming by land. ttp://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question82834.html
  • Battel of Lexington and Concord

    Battel of Lexington and Concord
    THE FIRST BATTLE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. That made British troops leav Boston to search weapons being stored by the Sons of Liberty; warned by Paul Revere, nearly 4000 colonist attack the British soldiers as they march toward from Boston to Concord and then back to Boston.