Copy of Events leading to the Revolutionary War
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Proclamation of 1763
- End of French and Indian War.
- Closed down colonial expansion westward.
- King George III declared all lands west of the Appalachian Divide off-limit
The Stamp act
- First taxes levied directly on American colonists by British government.
- Government owns deep dept from French and Indian War.
- Britain uses their North American colonies as a revenue source.
Quartering act
- Colonies had to house soldiers in barracks provided by the the colony.
- Colonists had to provide the British soldiers with what they wished for.
- The colonists disputed the legality of this Act because it seemed...
- to violate the Bill of Rights of 1689.
townshend act
- Imposed taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into colonies.
- Hoped the acts would defray imperial expenses in the colonies.
- Many Americans viewed the taxation as an abuse of power.
Boston massacre
- A squad of British soldiers,come to support a sentry who...
- was being pressed by a heckling, snowballing crowd, let loose a valley of..
- shots.
- British officer in charge, Capt. Thomas Preston, was arrested for manslaughter
tea act 1773
- Acts main purpose to help the East India Company from bankruptcy.
- The British government granted the company a monopoly on the importation and sale of tea in the colonies.
- The colonists had never accepted the constitutionality of the duty on tea.
- Their resistance culminated in the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773.
INTOLERABLE ACT 1774
- The port of Boston closed until colonists paid for the tea.
- The royal governor could ban town meetings.
- British officials accused of crimes would stand trial in Britain
