Causes of the Revolution
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- Stamp Act
- Go back to Britain you traitor!
- Thomas HutchinsonEstate
- I HATE THE STAMP ACT
- The Evil Stamp Act
- Declaratory Act
- I can tax the colonists whenever I want!
- Quartering Act/Townshend Acts
- Just don't hurt me!!
- I wanna live here. Also, give me all your stuff.
- The Stamp Act was an act passed by the British in which important documents were taxed. The colonists got angry and burned buildings and started riots.
- Boston Massacre
- FIRE!
- The day the British took away the stamp act they passed this act, which is pretty much saying that the British can tax the colonists in the future.
- Boston Tea Party
- NO MORE TEA!!
- The Quartering Act was the act in which the British could invade the colonists home without notice and stay there, and the colonists had to provide them food and supplies. The Townshend Acts were the act in which a bunch of imported items were taxed, and the British could invade colonists homes to search at any time.
- Coercive/Intolerable Acts
- don't move!!
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- The Boston Massacre was an event that lead to five colonists dead. After a large crowd of colonists started to get riled up and make threats, British soldiers fired.
- The Boston Tea Party was an event in which the colonists reacted to the Tea Tax (which actually made tea cheaper for them) by throwing tea off of a boat carrying tea from the East India Company.
- The Intolerable Acts were the British reactions to the Boston Tea Party and the Boston Massacre. The British pretty much took over Boston, and didn't allow the colonists to do any business, and they pretty much shut down the city.
- Closed Indefinitely
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