Causes of the Revolutionary War

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  • Currency Act

    Currency Act
    Made it so they had to use British money and couldn't print their own money

  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763
    Made it so you couldn't settle past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains

  • Sugar and Molasses Acts

    Sugar and Molasses Acts
    A tax of sixpence per a gallon on molasses from colonies that are not English
    March 1, 1733 - April 1, 1764

  • Quartering Act of 1765

    Quartering Act of 1765
    Made it so the colonist had to house the Soldiers and feed them and clean them.

  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    Everyone who bought paper was taxed

  • Townshend Acts

    Townshend Acts
    Paid the Governors and Judges so they would stay loyal to Great Britain

  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    A snowball fight gone bad, 5 people were killed, including the first African American.

  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    A protest by the Sons of Liberty to cause political change.

  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress
    A meeting of 12 of the 13 delegates that meet in Pennsylvania early in the Revolutionary War

  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts
    Made to punish the Massachusetts Tea Party movement and those colonist

  • Lexington/Concord

    Lexington/Concord
    First battles of the Revolutionary War Middlesex County MA, In Lexington,Concord, Lincoln, and Menotomy