Events That Led to the American Revolution

By jack.ie

  • The Stamp Act

    ~The Stamp Act was formed March 1765
    ~Imposed direct tax on the colonies
    ~Required printed materials to be produced on stamped paper that was produced in London to show that tax had been paid

  • Repal of the Stamp Act

    ~King and Parliament repealed after months of protest and boycotting
    ~An appeal by Ben Franklin was presented to the British House of Commons and the appeal was voted for

  • The Townshend Act

    ~Also known as the Townshend duties
    ~Series of taxes that funded administration of the colonies
    ~Taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea
    ~Established a custom board in Boston to collect taxes

  • Indemnity Act

    ~Exempted tea produced from the British East India Company from taxation, but when it was exported to the colonies, they still had to pay tax
    ~granted search warrants to British soldiers

  • The Boston Massacre

    ~Crowd of Boston people were insulting and harassing British soldiers and the tension was slowly building up
    ~British soldiers got tired of the taunting, so they began to fire at the crowd
    ~They shot 5 people, killed one, and wounded 4
    ~Crispus Attucks was an African American sailor that died from the shooting

  • Repeal of the Townshend Act

    ~Because of the massacre, and the colonies refusing to import British goods, the Townshend Act was partially repealed
    ~Trade went down, and the British lost a lot of money
    ~After Townshend died, he was replaced by Lord North who got rid of the act, but kept the tax on tea

  • Tea Act

    ~The British East India Company was going bankrupt, and in effort to save the enterprise, the parliament passed the act
    ~Granted the right for the company to ship their tea directly into the colonies without having to land in England first and did not have to pay duties
    ~Protestors did not like that at all so they would drink smuggled Dutch tea

  • The Boston Tea Party

    ~The colonies were boycotting the tea arriving at the ports and unloading
    ~The tea could not be unloaded and would sit in the boats and rot
    ~December 16 was when the sons of liberty had an idea to dress up as Mohawks and dump a million dollars' worth of tea into the harbor

  • The Coercive Acts

    ~In response to the Boston Tea Party, the British government decided that they had to get the colonists in Massachusetts under control
    ~Parliament passed the Coercive Acts, which closed Boston Harbor until restitution was paid for the dumped tea