Causes of the American Revolution
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- Navigation Acts
- This treatment is unjust and unacceptable! I am disallowed to trade with other countries other than Britain, and I cannot even use any boats provided by my city!
- You are correct! There are none of our people in Parliament and they are taxing us either way?! This is tyranny!
- Stamp Act
- How dare they tax us without our own consent?
- Quartering Act
- We are allowed to come into whoever's house we want to! You will provide food, bedding, transportation, and shelter for me as the king has ordered!
- What?! This is not tolerable! You do not own this house and the king wants for you all to break into whoever's houses you all wish to?! This is unacceptable!
- What is this?! Why are you in my house? You don't belong in my house!
- A. The Navigation Acts were a law that Britain enforced on the colonists limiting them and making them trade with Britain only and limiting them to using British ships only.B. The colonists were not in agreement with trade restrictions.
- Boston Massacre
- A. The Stamp Act was a tax that Britain put on goods and other items such as dice, legal documents, playing cards, and newspapers.B. The colonists did not like the Stamp Act all since they are taxing the colonies without consent of the colonies and without a single member in Parliament who comes from the colonies to represent the colonies.
- Intolerable/Coercive Acts
- A. The quartering act was a law that Britain enforced on the colonies asserting that the colonists are required to provide food, shelter, bedding, and transportation for the British soldiers that lingered in the colonies.B. The colonists did not approve of this at all. The colonists were furious because now if a British soldier wanted to, they could come into a random house without support, and the colonist living in that house had to basically serve that soldier.
- 2nd Continental Congress
- A. The Boston Massacre was an event where a group of British soldiers were being taunted, harassed, and made fun of on a street by civilians. The soldiers had enough and decided to fire at the colonists who were bothering them. This though was greatly exaggerated and later on used as propaganda.B. The colonists saw this as tyranny and as violence. They saw this as a way for the king to assert dominance and try to take control of the colonies through fear.
- FIRE!
- A. The Intolerable/Coercive Acts were laws passed that closed the port of Boston, limited the form of self-government that the colonies had, and also enforced the Quartering act.B. The colonies hated all these laws already and Britain was enforcing them even more. The colonies were very very angry at Britain and they were tired of Britain's tyrannical and unjust treatment.
- A. B.
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