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the Navigation Act, Stamp Act, Boston Tea Party, and the Coercive Act. These events lead to the American Revolution mainly because the colonists disagreed with the acts and rebelled. The Navigation Act was passed in 1660. The act said that the colonists must use English-built ships for all their trade, and could only buy English-made goods. The act was created to make mercantilism work.Colonists rebelled the act because it limited their trade with nations other than England. This act made the colonists

as “No taxation without representation.” Progressive historians like Howard Zinn highlight the social tensions and the discontent of the masses, drawing attention to the protests and mob violence carried out by disgruntled workers in the cities and ports. The Neo-Whig interpretation of what caused the American revolution places the blame on constitutional rights and ideology. They see the revolution as the colonists fighting for their constitutional rights and political ideas. Neo-Whig historians like

Boston Tea Party When the Boston Tea Party occurred on the evening of December 16,1773, it was the culmination of many years of bad feeling between the British government and her American colonies. The controversy between the two always seemed to hinge on the taxes, which Great Britain required for the upkeep of the American colonies. Starting in 1765, the Stamp Act was intended by Parliament to provide the funds necessary to keep peace between the American settlers and the Native American

all started people were fine in the colonies until the french and indian war ended. That was when the British parliament passed a series of law and bills strangling the colonists economically. (document 1) ( the intolerable acts, the sugar act, the quartering act, townshend acts, etc.) The colonists could not do anything because they had no representation in the british parliament. The colonists had no say in what happened federally. The king and parliament was not being fair to the colonist by putting

The Intolerable Acts, without a doubt, caused the most unrest in the colonies, therefore provoking the start of the American Revolution. In 1774, Parliament passed the Coercive Acts in reaction to the Boston Tea Party, where the Sons of Liberty dressed as Native Americans and smashed 340 chests of tea and dumped it all into the Boston Harbor. The Coercive Acts were called the Intolerable Acts by the colonists because they felt that they could not tolerate these new laws. Firstly, the British suspended

unbeatable, until 1783 when a group of rebels defeated one of the greatest military forces in the world during the American Revolution. There were many factors leading up to this. For one thing, the British imposed on the colonists the Intolerable Acts, such as taxation, causing an uproar. They issued an agreement with the Indigenous people called the Royal Proclamation stopping westward expansions. Furthermore, the British neglected the colonists for years and then suddenly, they decided to impose

the Sugar Act which taxed all the items such as sugar cubes and molasses thus contributing to the burning fire of hate in the colonists. King George III also created the Stamp Act and the Currency Act. The Stamp Act taxed all paper items such as dice, playing cards, marriage licenses, newspapers, and college degrees. These items had to be from England and had to have a stamp put on them stating that the tax had been paid and mostly the price was doubled. The Currency Act or Revenue Act was an act

established the Quartering Acts (1765), in which colonists were forced to provide supplies and quarters for British soldiers. Parson’s Cause followed, 1758-1763, in which British officials imposed further restrictions on legislature in Virginia. The Currency Acts, in 1764, imposed even further control on the colonies as it prohibited the printing of paper tendency in the colonies. Additionally, Britain taxed the colonies through the Sugar Act of 1764 and the Stamp Act of 1765. The Sugar Act added a tax on molasses

Boston Tea Party When the Boston Tea Party occurred on the evening of December 16,1773, it was the culmination of many years of bad feeling between the British government and her American colonies. The controversy between the two always seemed to hinge on the taxes, which Great Britain required for the upkeep of the American colonies. Starting in 1765, the Stamp Act was intended by Parliament to provide the funds necessary to keep peace between the American settlers and the Native American

The Intolerable acts were a set of laws intended to punish Massachusetts and the rest of the colonies for rebelling against British tax. With the Stamp acts recently repealed the colonists were feeling happy for the temporary solution, but they worried for the future and the taxes it could bring. At the same time, Britain is realizing that the colonies have more power than they would like and in order to prevent a rebellion, the empire must crack down. Even though Great Britain was justified in expecting