Causes of the American Revolution
Saul Benitez
Proclamation of 1763
The king of England said it is illegal to move past tha appalchian mountains b/c he wants to avoid another war.
Stamp Act of 1765
This is a tax on paper . The Stamp Act was first direct tax to be levied in the Amercan Colonies
The Townsend Acts of 1767
Townsend Acts of 1767 including paint ,paper, lead ,glass ,& tea & used royal
The Tea Act
The tea act was a tax on tea. The tea act only allowed tea to be shipped from East Indian Company
The baston tea party
In Boston, the sons of liberty organized what came to be known as the Baston Tea Party
The Intolerable Acts
The British called these laws the coerive acts , but they were so harsh that the colonists called them the Intolerable Acts.
Lexington and Concord
Were the first battles of the Revolutionary war. As Ralf Waldo Emerson later wrote