The Causes of the American Revolution

* the french, indians, and the british were fighting * also called the seven years war * fought around the ohio river * french fort was fort dequesne * english fort was fort necessity * british drove french from north america

* english settled on the ohio river * outburst of fights * british borrowed money/ debt * british wanted to protect indians * british won * 1763 peace treaty signed with france

* pontiak attacked british because there was no trade and because they settled in their land * indians were attacking colonists * divided land * britain didnt want conflicts with north america * britain feared rebellions * banned settlement west of mountains

* people ignored the king * caused concern in the british government * british crossed the mountains anyway * king didnt wasnt them close to indian lands * colonists hated this * showed the colonists and british had different ideas of what was best for the colonies

*britains parliament put taxes on sugar, molasses, coffee, and wine * britain needed money for their debt in the war * the colonits payed extra and didnt know why

* colonists stopped purchasing and boycotted sugar and molasses *britain didnt get money *propoed the stamp act instead *protested

* permitted british to be homed in the colonists houses and also fed *not happy with the arrangments * passed by the british parliament * save money to pay off the war

* colonists wrote plays and essays about the unlike of the act * boycotted the act and the british goods * act expired in 1770

*required colonists to pay a tax on stamps and paper products * cost was small but was on many things * all documents required a stamp * pay taxes to protext the american frontier

* formed a stamp act congress * protested immediately * stopped act in 1766 * made secret groups called the sons of liberty * people wouldnt buy the stamps

* colonists formed a group against the acts * it was a secret society * carve messages into a tree * threatened tax collectors * paul revere, john hancock, sam adams, and patrick henry belonged to this group

* the sons of liberty got very violent * had a meeting * some tax collectors quit * tax collectors stopped because there were afraid of them

* a fight against a soldier and a colonist * the soldier struck the colonist * a riot started * 5 people died

* murder trials were held * sam adams and rever used this to rally colonists * soldiers were arrested * propoganda * john adams was their lawyer

* taxes placed on paints, lead, tea, paper, and glass * unable to control smuggling * created courts to trial smugglers