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Causes to the American Revolution
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Proclamation of 1763/ Treaty of Paris
This Royal Proclamation stated that colonist were not to settle past the appellation mountains. This made many colonist angry that they could not go where they wanted to. -
Sugar Act of 1764
This was a Royal law that tried to prevent the smuggling of sugar from other country's and not paying taxes on it. Other goods were added to the law latter on -
Stamp Act of 1765
The Stamp Act made colonist pay a tax or a fee on every piece of paper used for legal documents and licences and ect
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The Townshend Act 1767
This was a Taxation on glass, lead, paints paper and tea and it angered the colonist because they didn't see why they needed to pay taxes on everyday items. This caused some violent protest in the colonies. Later they would Remove all the taxation on everything but the Tea. -
Boston Massacre of 1770
The killing of 5 Colonist in Boston by the British troops. -
Tea Act
Parliament passed a law that said that the east India tea company would be the only one to supply the colonies with tea and they taxed it really high. -
Boston Tea Party
The Rebellion of some colonist they called themselves the sons of liberty boarded a East India Tea ship in the Boston harbor and dumped the tea in the Harbor -
Intolerable Acts 1774
Britten passed many laws after the Boston Tea Party that affected the lives of the colonist. -
Deceleration of independence
Where america Declared their independence from Britain. -
Battle of Lexington and concord
were the first military interactions and marked the start of the American Revolution