events leading to the american revolution

THE STAMP ACT OF 1765

• In 1765 Greenville made a new law called the Stamp Act
• Stamps are required for all paper materials
• The Stamp Act was a law
• Even play cards had to have stamps
• Colonists had to use the Stamp Act

QUARTERING ACT

• Forced colonists to provide British troops with food,housing,and goods
• The act was seen as a form of taxation for the colonists
• Colonists despised constant taxation and unfair representation
• Wanted to now push even more reduced taxation
• Colonists are required to house soldiers
• The Quartering act was on 1765
• The Quartering Act is name given to two acts

TOWNSHEnD ACTS (1767)

• The Townshend law added new taxes to glass,paint,paper,and tea
• Taxes are raised
• This mostly affected the port colonies especially Massachussets
• To enforce acts better in the colonies they set up British courts
• Townshend duties were a big money loser
• parliament argued keeping duty on tea
• imposed new taxes on certain products to pay the salary of colonial officials

The Boston Massacre

• a brawl broke out between soldiers and colonists
• massacre of killing defenseless people
• Boston patriots were the worst troublemakers ever
• troops killed defenseless people

Tea act

• Tea Act was placed to try and rescue the British East Indian Company
• The American British boycott of British tea hurt the company badly
• The Tea Act gave the British complete control over the tea sales
• In 1773 the Tea Act was in danger of going broke unless they sold 17 million Lbs. of tea
• Britain only let colonists buy tea from them and even lowered the prices
• The colonists poured 342 tea chests into harbor

Boston Tea Party

• Men dressed as Mohawk Indians threw tea overboard
• 90,000 Lbs. of tea were dumped into the sea(342 chests)
• 50 men from the Sons of Liberty threw the tea
• none of the 50 men were ever caught
• It was led by the Sons of Liberty
• Three ships of tea arrived in Boston with a total of 342 chests of tea

The intolerable acts

• The port of Boston closed until colonists paid for tea
• The Intolerable acts were made to punish Massachusetts for the Tea Act
• The first law closed the Boston Harbor until the ruined tea was payed for
• The second law placed Massachusetts government under British control
• The third law British soldiers blamed of murder would be tried in England
• The final law more troops were sent to Boston to force the new laws

Lexington and concord

• The battle of Lexington and Concord fought on April 19,1775
• hundreds of British troops marched on April 18,1775 from Boston to nearby Concord
• it was called "The Shot around The World"
• The battle was in Lexington
• This battle started the American Revolution