Causes of the American Revolution

Currency Act

1751

Laws regulating the issuing of money.
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French Indian War

1754

North American conflict in the war between Great Britain and France.
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Sugar Act

1764

British law charged duties on sugar imported from other countries.
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Stamp Act

1765

Imposed direct tax on printed materials.
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Quartering Act

1765

Required governments to provide British soldiers housing and food.
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Townshend Act

1767

Taxed the colonies.
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Boston Massacre

1770

Angry colonist mob confronts soldiers; 5 colonists killed.
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Tea Act

1773

Gave British East India Company a monopoly on tea trade in America.
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Boston Tea Party

1773

Patriots dressed as American Indians dumped tea into Boston harbor in response to Tea Act.
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Intolerable Acts

1774

Series of laws (coercive acts) in response to Boston Tea party.
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1st and 2nd Continental Congress

1774

Delegates from colonies met in Philadelphia to organize colonial resistance against coercive acts.
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Lexington and Concord

1775

The first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
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Publishing of Common Sense

1776

Writer Thomas Paine sets forth his arguments in favor of American Independence in his book.
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