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Causes Of The American Revolution Timeline

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

THE NAVIGATION ACTS (1651)

COLONISTS CAN ONLY TRADE WITH ENGLAND

THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR (1756-1763)

FRENCH VS. ENGLISH INDIANS 50/50

PROCLAMATION OF 1763

LINE SPLITTING COLONISTS AND INDIANS

THE STAMP ACT (1765)

TAX ON EVERY PRINTED PAPER COLONISTS USED

• THE FORMING OF THE STAMP ACT CONGRESS IN NY AND THE SONS OF LIBERTY IN BOSTON(1765)

REBEL GROUP FORMED TO PROTECT RIGHTS OF COLONISTS

• Quartering Act (1765)

REQUIRED COLONISTS TO HOUSE BRITISH SOLDIERS IN BARRACKS PROVIDED BY COLONISTS

• Writs of assistance (1765)

DOCUMENTS THAT SERVED AS GENERAL SEARCH WARRANTS

• Townshend Acts (1767)

RAIS REVENUE OF COLONISTS

• Boston Massacre (1770)

INCIDENT ON KING STREET

• Tea Act (1773)

FORCED COLONISTS TO BUY TEA FROM EAST INDIA TEA COMPONY(AND TAXED TEA)

• Boston Tea Party (1773)

REBELS TOOK CHESTS OF TEA AND THREW IT INTO THE HARBOUR

• COERCIVE (INTOLERABLE) ACTS (1773)

SERIES OF PUNITIVE LAWS PASSED IN RESPONSE TO THE BOSTON TEA PARTY

• First Continental Congress (1774)

MEETING OF DELEGATES FROM 12 COLONIES IN CARPENTER HALL PHILADELPHIA

• Lexington and Concord “shot heard around the world”(1775)

START OF THE WAR

• Second Continental Congress (1775)

WROTE THE D.o.I.

• Common Sense (1776)

CHALLENGED AUTHORITY OF BRITISH GOVERNMENT AND MONARCHY

• Declaration of Independence (1776)

COLONISTS WANTED TO BE INDEPENDENT FROM BRITISH(AMERICA BEGINS)