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The end of seven year's war
The seven year war (1756-1763), also called French and Indian war, is a war between British and French.However, British finally won the war. After the war was ended, British counted the cost of war on their colonists in America by rising taxes, and this act cause great disaffection during American colonists. This cause is very inclusive, cause impacts on economic/political/social, and it was definitely a long term cause since it was one of the roots cause of American Revolution. -
Sugar Act
Sugar Act(1764), the first law ever passed by that body for raising tax revenue in the colonies for the crown. Among various provisions, it increased the duty on foreign sugar imported from the West Indies. After bitter protests from the colonists, the duties were lowered substantially, and the agitation died down.It was both a political and economic cause, and it should be a short term cause since the agitation was soon died down. -
Stamp Act
Stamp Act(1765)imposted by Grenville. It mandated the use of stamped paper or the affix- ing of stamps, certifying payment of tax. Stamps were required on bills of sale for about fifty trade items as well as on certain types of commercial and legal docu- ments, including playing cards, pamphlets, newspapers, diplomas, bills of lading, and marriage licenses.This should be a long term and political/economic case since it caused serious angriness among Americans and instigated their rebel. -
Stamp Act Congress
Stamp Act Congress(1765), brought together in New York City twenty-seven distinguished delegates from nine colonies. After dignified debate the members drew up a statement of their rights and grievances and beseeched the king and Parliament to repeal the repugnant legislation. However, it was ignored by England. It should be a social and long term cause since It was one more halting but significant step toward intercolonial unity. -
Quartering Act
Quartering Act(1765),This measure required certain colonies to provide food and quarters for British troops.it should be a long term and political/social cause since it instigates Americans to get together and rebel. -
Declaratory Act
Declaratory Act(1766),reaffirming Parliament’s right “to bind” the colonies“in all cases whatsoever.”It defined the con- stitutional principle it would not yield: absolute and unqualified sovereignty over its North American colonies.This should be a long term and political cause. -
Townshend Act
Townshend Act(1767), The most important of these new regulations was a light import duty on glass, white lead, paper, paint, and tea. Townshend, seizing on a dubious distinction between internal and external taxes, made this tax, unlike the stamp tax, an indirect customs duty payable at American ports. But to the increasingly restless colo- nists, this was a phantom distinction. This should be a social and political, also a long term cause -
British troops occupy Boston
British troops occupy Boston，British officials, faced with a breakdown of law and order, landed two regiments of troops in Boston in 1768. Many of the soldiers were drunken and pro- fane characters. Liberty-loving colonists, resenting the presence of the red-coated “ruffians,” taunted the “bloody backs” unmercifully.This should be a social and long term cause. -
Boston Massacre
Boston Massacre，Acting apparently without orders, but nervous and provoked by the jeering crowd, the troops opened fire and killed or wounded eleven citizens, an event that became known as the Boston Massacre. This should be a short term and social cause. -
Boston Tea Part
Boston Tea Party -The powerful British East India Company was facing bankruptcy in 1773, so the British tricked Americans, with much cheaper tea price, into swallowing the principle of the detested tax. And the British enforced the law. Many cities showed their furiousness to the law. On December 16, 1773, roughly a hundred Bos-tonians smashed open 342 chests of tea, and dumped their contents into the Atlantic.The conflicts were inevitable between the colonists and the British.political cause -
Intolerable Acts
Intolerable Acts-By huge majorities in 1774, it passed a series of acts designed to chastise Boston in particular and Massachusetts in general in response to the Boston Tea Party. Many of the chartered rights of colonial Massachusetts were swept away. Especially the Quebec Act, it had a wider range.political cause -
First Continental CongressIt
First Continental CongressIt was to meet in Philadelphia to consider ways of redressing colonial grievances -- the Intolerable Act. The most significant action of the Congress was the creation of The Association. it called for a complete boycott of British goods: nonimporta-tion, nonexportation, and nonconsumption. If colonial grievances were redressed, well and good; if not, the Congress was to meet again in May 1775.and it was political cause -
Lexington Massacre
Lexington Massacre - In April 1775 the British commander in Boston sent a detachment of troops to nearby Lexington and Concord. They were to seize stores of colonial gunpowder and also to bag the “rebel” ringleaders, Samuel Adams and John Hancock. The colonial “Minute Men” refused to disperse rapidly enough, and shots were fired that killed eight Americans and wounded several more.
