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The Causes Of The American Revolution

By aaxton12

  • The French And Indian War

    The French And Indian War
    A feud between France and Britain in North America over the Ohio River Valley. George Washington takes the first shot the British win.

  • The Proclamation Line of 1763

    The Proclamation Line of 1763
    Following the war the British create a physical border , the Appalachian mountains that separates the colonists from there newly won territory.Following the french and Indian war

  • The Sugar Act

    The Sugar Act
    The British puts a tax of 3 cents on sugar. The colonists protest. With the talk of 'NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION'

  • The Stamp Act

    The Stamp Act
    British parliament passed the Stamp act . That required that a stamp is to be purchased and placed on all paper purchases.Such as cards,documents and other items.

  • townshend acts

    townshend acts
    these acts placed taxes on items imported to the colonies from England such as paper,glass.paint and tea

  • Boston massacre

    Boston massacre
    British soldiers and young colonists fight in the streets of Boston at night because the colonists provoked the soldiers

  • The committees of correspondence

    The committees of correspondence
    the committees of correspondence were the first attempt of the american colonies to maintain communication between one another

  • The Tea Act/The Boston Tea Party

    The Tea Act/The Boston Tea Party
    The tea act raised tax in the colonies and put a monopoly on the East India company for tea and the colonists dressed up as Indians and boarded the ships and threw the tea of into the harbor.

  • Coercive [intolerable] acts

    Coercive [intolerable] acts
    the English government was furious about the tea party and the havoc it cased so they punished the colonists by passing a series of laws that were later renamed by the colonists

  • The First Continental Congress

    The First Continental Congress
    Political men met in carpenters hall in Philadelphia for a meeting discussing the current crisis with England . also sighing a petition saying that they were loyal to the king.

  • The battles of Lexington and Concord

    The battles of Lexington and Concord
    The British troops arrive to 70 militiamen gathered The Shot Heard Round The World goes of by someone and the war begins