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Causes of The American Revolution

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  • Treaty of Paris

    Treaty of Paris
    The Treaty of Paris of 1763 is the treaty that eneded the French and Indian War/Seven Years War. The treaty says that the French gives up all their land in North Amrica. At the end of the war the British was in debt. Britain taxed the colonies to pay of the debt thay were in.

  • The Sugar Act

    The Sugar Act
    Parliment passed this act to get out of debt. The Sugar Act is the act on molasses. The act also assigned customs officers and created courts to collect the duties and prosecute smugglers.

  • The Stamp Act

    The Stamp Act
    The Stamp Act was passed to get all the colonies to pay taxes on all imported and printed goods to the colonies.The money made by the Stamp Act was used to pay off the debt that Briatan was in after the French and Iadian war.

  • The Declaratory Act

    The Declaratory Act
    This act repealed the stamp act but asserted Paliaments right to rule the colonies as it saw it.

  • Townshend Acts

    Townshend Acts
    The Townshend Acts were that the colonists had go by the rules that the troops were enforecing

  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    British soldiers killed five colonists in boston. A group of Colonies throw a snowball and rocks at the British soldiers . The nevous soldiers fired into the crowd, killing the five Colonies. Under the leadership of Samual Adams, Patrots called the killing of Boston Massacre

  • Tea Act

    Tea Act
    Parliament passed the Tea Act, leading the botson tea party. Tea act put taxs on anything coming from britian like tea

  • The Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party
    The tea boycott worsened financial for already struggling british east india company. To help colonists pay taxs the parliament passed a law allowing the comany to sell directly to the colnist. This made their tea cheaper than smuggled tea, even with there taxes.

  • The Intolerable Acts

    The Intolerable Acts
    The Intolerable Acts were that the colonists had to share all thair belonging with the troops in the colonies. There were a couple acts with that were that they shut down all ports to go to sea.

  • Battle Lexington and Concord

    Battle Lexington and Concord
    Battle beween Lexington and Concord. Gage got the battle to start by sending troops to arrest Hancock and Adams in Lexington and to sezie patriot weapons stockpiled in Concord.