Revolution was the Coercive/Intolerable Acts. I believe this event had the most significant role in starting the American Revolutionary War because of the following, one, the colonists were already angered by the taxes/laws/acts. Next, the acts changed the way many colonists had to live. And finally I believe that the Coercive/Intolerable Acts were unfair to the colonists and that that some of the laws and acta were not necessary. One reason that the Coercive/Intolerable Acts led to the revolutionary
The Coercive Acts were the next challenge to the colonists sense of free will. These acts ignited conflicts across the colonies. These acts affected almost all aspects of life, from taxation to social and political factors. The Coercive Acts mainly consisted of five separate policies. The first act was the Boston Port Act, which effectively closed the port of Boston. This caused famine in Eastern Massachusetts,
The Sugar Act George Grenville, a newly elected prime minister, passed the Sugar Act in 1764. He passed it in hopes of increasing tax revenue. This act lowered the tax on molasses imported by the colonists. He had hoped the lower tax would make the colonists want to pay the tax instead of smuggling. Sugar, textiles, coffee, wines, indigo, and other imported goods were taxed. It also allowed officers to take goods from smugglers without going to court. The Stamp Act Parliament
There were many causes that brought on the start of the American Revolution. A great deal of the civil unrest was brought on by the acts that followed the end of the French and Indian War. At the end of the war, most of which was fought on American soil, England had incurred a dept almost double that of when William Pitt took office. Because the war was fought for the colonists, much of England believed that that they should be the ones to recoup the great financial loss that England had suffered
Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Townshend Acts, etc. It was “taxation without representation.” Many people wrote about what colonists should do. John Dickinson wrote “The Letters From a Pennsyvlanvia Farmer” and Thomas Paine wrote “Common Sense”. Both were the actions that they believed that colonist should take and their opinion on the matters. Americans rebelled with the Boston Massacre in 1770 and the Boston Tea Party in 1773 [CITE]. This caused Great Britain to enact the Coercive Acts. The Coercive Acts
that the Quebec Act is the best act when the majority of the people living in the thirteen colonies label themselves as something other than British citizens. Such as in the Quebec Act which is in 1774 on June 27, It was passed by British parliament to replace brief government created at the time of the proclamation of 1763. It gave French Canadians complete spiritual freedom and restored the French form of the civil law. The Quebec act was arranged to extend the borders of Quebec and pledged
British passed the Intolerable Acts, a law that created a punitive tax for the destruction of Tea in the Boston Harbor. Though the British saw the Intolerable Acts as a compromise in dealing with the vandalism, the American colonists were enraged. Their anger led to the creation of the First Continental Congress and paved the path for the conflict of the American Revolution. The American Revolution lasted from 1754 to 1788 with the commission of the intolerable acts occurring in the midst of this
History Chapter 5 Summary As the French and Indian war ended, British officials devised their own way of dealing with America, these measures did not work in the colonist’s favor. As of 1763, after the French and Indian War; territories Britain had in North America stretched from the Hudson Bay to the Caribbean, from the Atlantic to the Mississippi. France’s territory on the mainland was reduced to two small islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Spain owned present-day Cuba, Louisiana, California
dressed themselves as Native Americans and went to the Boston Harbor. Once there they went aboard ships that were carrying tea and they threw 92,000 pounds(340 chests) of tean into the harbor. This act changed the world as the colonists knew it. It sparked the Coercive acts, known as the intolerable acts in America to be
represented in British Parliament. Acts passed in the 1760s include the Proclamation of 1763, The Sugar Act, The Quartering Act, The Stamp Act, and the Townshend Acts. These actions by the British continued and increased in severity during the 1770s. Acts passed leading up to the American Revolution in the 1770s include The Tea Act and The Coercive and Quebec Acts. The 1760s began the race to resentment for the American Colonists. After the French- Indian War, which