American Revolution
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- The French and Indian War
- Sugar Act
- Why?!?! What was wrong with the way we were doing it??
- We will now be taxing non-British products.
- Stamp Act
- No Taxation, Without Representation!!
- The French and Indian War required a great deal of money, and so they provided that all of these American products be shipped exclusively to England through the Navigation Acts. The colonies were wholly interested in overcoming the French in America and appealed to the King for permission to raise armies and monies to defend themselves.
- Boston Massacre
- Through the Sugar Act, colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses. The act also listed more foreign goods to be taxed including sugar, certain wines, coffee, pimiento, cambric, and printed calico, and further, regulated the export of lumber and iron.
- Intolerable Acts
- They need to be punished for what happened in Boston!!
- The Stamp Act was used for granting and applying certain stamp duties, and other duties, in the British colonies and plantations in America, towards further defraying the expenses of defending, protecting, and securing the same. It is just and necessary that provision is made for raising a further revenue within your majesty's dominions in America toward defraying the said expenses.
- Common Sense
- I love these!!
- The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. A town meeting was called demanding the removal of the British and the trial of Captain Preston and his men for murder.
- The Intolerable acts include the Boston Port Act, Administration of Justice Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Quartering Act of 1774, and the Quebec Act. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British Government.
- Common Sense by Thomas Paine challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy. Paine spoke to the common people of America and was the first work to openly ask for independence from Great Britain.
- America should be able to follow their own rules!
- Common SenseThomas Paine
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