Causes of the American Revolution
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Causes of the American Revolution
“When a certain great king, whose initial is G, Shall force stamps upon paper, and folks to drink tea;
When these folk burn his tea and stamp paper, like stubble, You may guess that this king is the coming to trouble.”
-Phillip Freneau
Navigation Acts1650-1763
British Action- restricted colonial trade, manufacturing and shipping.
Colonial Reaction- smuggling, evasion, and disregard
French and Indian Waraka Seven Year’s War
1754-1763British Action- fought the French and
Huron Indians over control of the Ohio River Valley.
Proclamation of 1763British Action- prohibited colonial
settlement beyond the Appalachian Mountains.
Colonial Reaction- continued to move
westward
One thing led to another…
Sugar Act1764
British Action- taxed sugar from the West IndiesColonial Reaction- protests led to lower
taxes
Quartering Act1765
British Action- required certain colonies to provide food and housing (quartering) to British soldiers
Colonial Reaction- assemblies refused to comply
Stamp Act1765
British Action- taxed almost all printed
materials
British Reaction- repealed (cancelled)
Stamp Act but issued the Declaratory Acts which allowed Parliament to make laws for the colonies in all cases whatsoever.
Colonial Reaction- protested NO TAXATION by
Parliament WITHOUT colonial
REPRESENTATION
Stamp Act1765
Townshend Acts1767
British Action- taxed glass, lead,paper, and tea
Colonial Reaction- smuggling; resistance led to Boston
Massacre; refused to import.
What’s that? A Massacre!!!
Writs of AssistanceBritish Action:A non-specific search warrant used to
look for smuggled goods.
“Revolutionary Tea”There was an old lady lived over the sea
And she was an island queen.Her daughter lived off in a far country
With an ocean of water between.The old lady’s pockets were full of gold,
But never contented was she.She called on her daughter to pay her a tax
Of three-pence a pound on her tea,Of three-pence a pound on her tea.
Tea Act1773
British Action- British East India Tea Company given a
monopoly for colonial tea business with small tax
Colonial Reaction- ships and cargo destroyed by colonists in Boston “Boston Tea Party”
Coercive Actsaka Intolerable Acts
1774British Action- did not allow Massachusetts Assembly
to meet; no town meetings or jury trials; closed the port of Boston
Colonial Reaction- held First Continental Congress to protest the acts and call for a complete boycott of British goods.
“What do we mean by the Revolution? The War? That was no part of the Revolution: it was only an effect and consequence of it. The Revolution was in the minds
and hearts of the people, and this was effected from 1760-1775, in
the course of fifteen years, before a drop of blood was shed…”
-John Adams