Causes of the Declaration of Independence

By tuiteli1

  • Boston Tea Party

    The British passed a the Tea Act that allowed all teas to be taxed except for the British East India Company Tea. The British wanted the colonists to buy their tea so they thought it they made it the cheapest the colonists would buy it. A group of colonists snuck out at night and dumped tea from the East India Tea Company into the Boston Harbor.

  • Proclamation Of 1763

    King George III issued a vertical line along the Appalachians that the colonists were prohibited from crossing to the west and colonizing

  • Boston Massacre

    After British Officers were confronted by an angry mob of Colonists they ended up shooting and killing 5 colonists. The event was portrayed as a Massacre by the colonists in all of the newspapers that were circulated around the colonies

  • British Boston Blockade

    British Palimet issues the Boston Port Act which closed the port of Boston and demanded that the Boston residents pay back the $1 Million dollars worth of tea that was dumped in the harbor during the Boston Tea Party

  • Battle at Lexington and Concord

    Paul Revere William Dawes and Samuel Prescott warned the colonists that 700 British Troop were coming. It was the first battle of the Revolutionary War. The colonists were now considered enemies of the British and it was clear they wanted Independence from the British.

  • First and Second Continental Congress

    A group of delegates that wrote up the declaration of colonial rights which stated that the colonists had the right to create their own laws/run their own colonies. Allowed for ideas to be shared among the colonists. Created the Continental army. The Second Continental Congress wrote the declaration of Independence

  • Common Sense

    50-page pamphlet Written by Thomas Paine about the Tyranny in England and the importance of Independence for America. It stated that there would be more equal social and economic opportunities if America gained its independence

  • Declaration Of Independence

    Each colony was told to form its own government. Thomas Jefferson was chosen to write the final draft. It states that “all men are created equal” once they declared their freedom from Britain through the Declaration now they had to fight for it.