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

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Navigation Acts1650-1763

• British Action- restricted colonial trade,
  manufacturing and shipping.

• Colonial Reaction- smuggling, evasion, and
  disregard

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French and Indian Waraka Seven Years
War1754-1763

• British Action- fought the French and Huron
  Indians over control of the Ohio River Valley.

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Proclamation of 1763

• British Action- prohibited colonial settlement
  beyond the Appalachian Mountains.

• Colonial Reaction- continued to move westward

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One thing led to another
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Sugar Act1764

• British Action- taxed sugar from the West Indies
  

• Colonial Reaction- protests led to lower taxes

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Quartering Act1765

• British Action- required certain colonies to
  provide food and housing (quartering) to British
  soldiers

• Colonial Reaction- assemblies refused to comply

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Stamp Act1765

• British Action- taxed almost all printed
  materials
• Colonial Reaction- protested TAXATION by
  Parliament WITHOUT colonial REPRESENTATION
• British Reaction- repealed (cancelled) Stamp Act
  but issued the Declaratory Acts which allowed
  Parliament to make laws for the colonies in all
  cases whatsoever.

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Townshend Acts1767

• British Action- taxed glass, lead, paper, and tea

• Colonial Reaction- smuggling resistance led to
  Boston Massacre refused to import.

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Whats that? A Massacre!!!
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Writs of Assistance

• A non-specific search warrant used to look for
  smuggled goods.

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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 ladys 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.

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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

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Coercive Actsaka Intolerable Acts1774

• Colonial Reaction- held First Continental
  Congress to protest the acts and call for a
  complete boycott of British goods.

• British Action- did not allow Massachusetts
  Assembly to meet no town meetings or jury
  trials closed the port of Boston

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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