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Aftermath Of The Frech and Indian War
After the British won against the French and Indians British were in major war debt and taxes the colonist without representation which angered the colonist and caused them to end Salutary Neglect -
Stamp Act of 1765
The Stamp Act was an act passed by British Parliment towards the American Colonist which stated that all printing materials such as newspapers,books,court documents, contracts and land deeds. It required every American colonist to have to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper -
Quartering Act
Following the French and Indian War, Britain maintained a standing army in the colonies. Thia act required colonial asseblies to house and provision the soldiers. -
Declaratory Act
This act stoped the Stamp Act but asserted Parliament's right to rule the colonies as it saw fit. Parliment was trying convince the colonist that there taxing authority was the same as America. -
Townshend Act
Import taxes on a variety of goods were collected to support the royal officals in the colonies, removing the responsibility that the colonial assemblies had before this act. -
Boston Massacre
This is the beginning of the reblion when a group of American Colonist were throwing rocks and snowballs with great force at British Soldiers . Some nervous British soldiers would fire there guns at colonist killing five colonist which star the revolution -
Tea Act of 1773
The Tea Act was another act passed by the British Parliment
which stated that every American Colonist were forced to buy tea from the East Indie company . This was the final spark for the Revolutionary movement in Boston -
Boston Tea Party
Was a political protest by Sons of Liberty in Boston. Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships and threw 342 chest of tea overboard into the harbor. This act pushed the two sides closer to war. -
First Continental Congress
(September 5 - October 26 1774) All the colonies sent representatives to Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia except for Georgia. The representative pressured Parliment to withdraw all four acts of the Coercive acts. John Adam believed " that all Americans can work together to take down the Britsih. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
The battles started the flame of The American Revolutinary War
Tension between British and 13 Colonies were huge epspecially
in Massachusetts. Many British troops proceeded from Boston and Concord in order to better weapons. Paul Revere played a major part by riding Horse warning that the British are coming
