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Events that led to the American Revolution

  • Heliocentrism Theory

    Heliocentrism Theory
    Galileo Galilei proposed that the Earth was not the center of our system as many people believed. Throughout many observations he concluded that the Sun was the center and that the Earth and the rest of the planets revolve around it.
  • Enlightment

    Enlightment
    It was a phylosophical movement which took place during the 18th century. It had 2 main influencers who were Isaan Newton and John Locke.
  • Humanism

    Humanism
    The idea in which human beings were the most important thing started to spread over Europe. This idea also said that humans were the center of the universe.
  • Rights and Freedom

    Peolple started to analyse what they were told by the Church and the government. They thought everyone should be able to have their natural rights.
  • Seven Years War

    Seven Years War
    This war is also called the French and Indian war. The main objective was to expand their territories among America. Winston Churchill called it "The First World War".
  • Stamp Act

    The Stamp Act was a decision taken by the British Parlament to put higher taxes in printed and oficial documents. It also included an irrational high tax on tea, sugar and some other things.
  • The Incident on King Street

    The Incident on King Street
    One day some people started protesting because they werre being ignored. Suddenly the group of protestants increased and soldiers started shooting. At first the soldiers argumented it had been an accident but later they would admitt they did it on purpose.
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    As native Americans were angry with the British governnment because f the high taxes it had put to several things, they decided to act against them. That is why some native Americans sank a boat which brought tons of the from Britain.
  • Battles of Lexington and Concord

    Battles of Lexington and Concord
    These battles set the start of the American Revolution. In these battles the British army succeeded in destroying the supplies in Concord.
  • American Revolution

    American Revolution
    Native Americans took advantage of all the problems Britain was facing and started their revolution. Britain was weak because they had just had the seven years war so native Americans tooks them by surprise. These event marked the independence of the 13 colonies.