Causes Of The American Revolution Timeline
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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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)
