Causes of Amrican Revolution
- 2. The French and Indian War was a war between Britain
and the Indians.
Cause: The colonists kept
pushing the Indians west.
Effect: The British made the
Proclamation of 1763.
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- 3. The Proclamation of 1763 was a law prohibiting the
colonists to move west of the Appalachian Mountains.
Cause: England was still in debt
from the French and Indian War and
didn’t want to start another war.
Effect: The colonist still moved west
anyway because owning land was
important (you needed it to be able to
vote).
King George
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- 4.
The Stamp Act was a tax on every
sheet of every legal document.
Cause: Britain needed money because they were in debt
from the war so they taxed the colonists.
Effect: The colonists boycotted British goods. They also
organized the Sons of Liberty and the Daughters of
Liberty.
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- 5.
The Townshend Acts used all the money collected for
imported goods to pay the salaries of British soldiers. The
Townshend Acts also caused a tax for glass, lead, paint,
paper, and tea.
Cause: Britain still needed money,
they needed a way to tax the
“without offense.”
Effect: The colonists boycotted
goods again.
colonies
but
British
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- 6.
The Boston Massacre was a clash between British troops
and a group of colonists in which five colonists were
killed.
Cause: After lots of ridicule, the tension finally broke.
Some colonists started throwing snowball in front of the
Boston Customhouse. The soldiers became nervous and
started shooting.
Effect: Six of the soldiers were acquitted, and two of
them had their thumbs branded for shooting.
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The Tea Act was a tax on all imported tea from Britain.
Cause: The colonists boycott against British goods had
hurt their trade, so the British repealed the Townshend
Acts after the Boston Massacre. Parliament only kept the
tea tax.
Effect: The Sons of Liberty
organized a protest against
the Tea Act known as the
Boston Tea Party.
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- 8.
The Boston Tea Party was a protest organized by the
colonists against the British. All the colonists dressed up
as Indians and snuck on-board the British ships in the
harbor. Then they threw all the tea on the ships into
Boston Harbor.
Cause: The colonists were upset by the Tea Act.
Effect: The Intolerable
Acts were passed to keep
the colonists under control.
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- 9.
The Intolerable Acts were four strict laws that gave the
British a sense of more control over the colonies. First of all,
they closed down the port of Boston until the colonists paid
for all of the tea they threw into Boston Harbor. Second, they
forbade any meetings without the governor’s permission.
Next, they made the colonists house and feed British troops.
Finally, instead of British officials being tried for crimes in
the colonies, they would be tried in Britain. Also, King
George the third appointed General Thomas Gage the new
governor of Massachusetts.
Cause: The Boston Tea Party.
Effect: The colonists started
the Revolutionary War.
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