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Causes of the American Revolution

By Ryan Hurlbert

  • Proclamation Act

    Proclamation Act
    This act made it to where the colonist can't settle past the Appalachian Mountains.

  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act
    If a British soldier needed food, water or shelter the colonist must provide it.

  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    Placing taxes on all printed goods.

  • Townshend Acts

    Townshend Acts
    A series of acts imposing indirect taxes on goods.

  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    5 colonist were shot by british soldiers during a riot

  • Tea Act

    Tea Act
    The colonist can now only buy tea from the East India Company.

  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts
    A series of laws for punishing colonist for throwing all the tea into the harbor.

  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress
    A meeting of delegates form 12 of the 13 colonies to discuss issues and start movements like boycotts.

  • Lexington and Concord

    Lexington and Concord
    First military engagements of the revolutionary war.
    Revolutionary war begins.