Causes of the American Revolution
French and Indian War (1754 - 1763)
Boston Massacre (1770)
Proclamation of 1763
Boston Tea Party (1773)
Stamp Act (1765)
Intolerable Acts (1774)
Townshend Act (1767)
First Continental Congress
● Fighting to control the Ohio River Valley
● British Won
● Started moving west into the Ohio River
Valley
● King George III said they could not pass the
Appalachian Mountains
● Angered colonists who wanted to move
west
● Colonists had to buy stamps for printed
materials
● “No Taxation without Representation”
● Group- ​Sons of Liberty​ started protests
● Parliament repealed quickly because
colonists were boycotting goods.
● Tariff (tax) on imported goods such as: tea,
paper, wool, lead, paint, glass (caused
protest)
● Daughters of Liberty
● Colonists threw snow/ice at British soldiers to
express anger over taxes
● In panic, British soldiers killed 5 colonists
● The tea act made colonists buy from only one
company (East India Company)
● Angry colonists dressed as Mohawk Indians and
dumped a shipload of tea into Boston Harbor
● Made king very angry
● Harsh new laws passed to punish the colonists
for the Boston Tea Party
● Closed Boston harbor
● King put British Soldiers in charge of Boston
Colony until Tea was paid for in full
● Colonists forced to feed and house British
soldiers
● Representatives met to discuss the events in
Boston
● Congress agreed to stop all trade with Britain
until Intolerable Acts are repealed
● Agreed to ask King George for help in solving
problem with taxes
Symbol
● Drawn by Benjamin Franklin
● Suggested that colonies needed to join
together to fight the French and Indians
● Later became symbol of colonial
freedom
Yankee Doodle
● Song from French Indian War Era,
● Originally sung by British to mock the colonial “Yankees”
(“doodle” means fool or simpleton)