causes of the american revolution
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- Stamp Act
- TAX COLLECT
- You have no say we dont want taxes!
- TAX COLLECTORS
- Quartering act
- ok
- make me food and ready me a bed know!!
- Boston Tea Party
- The Stamp Act of 1765 was a tax to help the British pay for the French and Indian War. The British felt they were well justified in charging this tax because the colonies were receiving the benefit of the British troops and needed to help pay for the expense.
- Boston Massacre
- This was when the British were allowed to go in any of the American houses and they could ask for any food and the american would have to pay for it
- Coercive intolerable acts
- The Boston tea party were colonists dressed as native Americans that were throwing tea into the ocean because they didn't like the tea the British were trying to give them
- Townshend acts
- i hate these guys
- im searching your house!
- The event in Boston helped to unite the colonies against Britain. What started as a minor fight became a turning point in the beginnings of the American Revolution. The Boston Massacre helped spark the colonists' desire for American independence, while the dead rioters became martyrs for liberty.
- The Coercive Acts of 1774, known as the Intolerable Acts in the American colonies, were a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. ... Parliament passed the bill on March 31, 1774, and King George III gave it royal assent on May 20
- The Townshend Acts or Townshend Duties, refers to a series of British acts of Parliament passed during 1767 and 1768 relating to the British colonies in America. They are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer who proposed the program.
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