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- Hi im stan!, i'm going to show you the american revolution.
- The American Revolution was an ideological and political revolution that occurred in British America between 1765 and 1791.
- gaining independence from the British Crown and establishing the United States as the first nation-state founded on Enlightenment principles of liberal democracy.
- The Americans in the Thirteen Colonies formed independent states that defeated the British in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783)
- The Stamp Act
- To recoup some of the massive debt left over from the war with France,
- Parliament passed laws such as the Stamp Act, which for the first time taxed a wide range of transactions in the colonies.
- Here are 3 events that were a main cause in the revolution.
- The Sugar Act
- the new Sugar Act cut the duty on foreign molasses from 6 to 3 pence per gallon,
- retained a high duty on foreign refined sugar, and prohibited the importation of all foreign rum.
- the Boston Massacre
- The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers.
- Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry.
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