1 of 8

Slide Notes

DownloadGo Live

Causes Of The American Revolution

Published on Nov 22, 2015

No Description

View Outline

MORE DECKS TO EXPLORE

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

1.

PROCLAMATION OF 1763

  • Proclamation of 1763 Was issued by King George III of Great Britain
  • The King sent 100,000 troops To keep the peace with Native Americans.
  • Britain's prime minster, George Grenville, set out to stop the smuggling.
  • The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was designed to calm the fears of Native Indians
  • The Proclamation prohibited settlement by whites on land in the 'Indian Reserve'
2.

SURGER ACT (1764)

  • In 1764 parliament passed the surger act, which lowered the tax on the molasses
  • The surger act angered many colonists
  • They believed this and other new laws violated their rights
  • The proper name of the Sugar Act is The American Revenue Act of 1764.
  • The Sugar Act was proposed by Prime Minister George Grenville.
3.

STAMP ACT (1765)

  • First direct British tax on American colonistsInstituted in November, 1765.
  • Every newspaper and other public and legal document had to have a Stamp,British seal, on it.
  • It was the first direct internal tax passed by Parliament for the North American colonies.
  • In 1765 parliament passeed the stamp act
  • This law taxed almost all printed materials
4.

STAMP ACT (1765)

  • The stamp act outraged the colonists
  • They argued that only their own assemblies could tax them
  • The stamp act taught the British that the colonists would resist internal taxes
5.

TOWNSHEND ACT (1767)

  • In 1767 parliament passed the Townshend acts to tax important goods
  • Such as glass, tea and paper
  • The tax was paid when the goods arrived, before they were brought inside the colonies
  • By then, any British taxes angered the colonists
  • Protest of townshend acts began immediately
6.

QUARTERING ACT (1765)

  • Forced colonist to provied British troops with food, housing, and goods
  • Required colonists to house British soldiers in barracks provided by colonists
  • The 1765 Quartering Act was passed on March 24, 1765
  • The purpose of these laws was to take back hold of the thirteen colonies
  • The Quartering Act of 1765 hits a similar sore spot--it's not just about human rights, or philosophy, but fairness
7.

TEA ACT (1773)

  • The Tea Act was a follow-up to the Revenue Act
  • The Tea Act imposed no new taxes
  • The Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773,
  • 1773 Act that gave a monopoly on tea sales to the East India Company.
  • Colonists did not want to pay any tax nor wanted to be told what they could buy
8.

COERCIVE ACTS (1774)

  • In 1773, the British tried again, by instituting a new tax on tea.
  • The Intolerable Acts of 1774 led to the First Continental Congress on October 14, 1774.
  • One of the coercive acts banned town meetings in Massachusetts.
  • Following the coercive act, Parliament also passed the Quebec Act.
  • The colonists believed all of these new laws violated their rights as english citizens

Maia Stroer