Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Causes of The American
War of Independence
- Seven
Years' War
1763
- Proclamation Act
- Irritation of Colonialists as they are not allowed to expand west
- Huge Debt for the British
- British want Colonialists to help pay it off
- Irritation of Colonialists because they don't want to pay
- Grenville's
Acts
- Stamp Act
- All printed documents had a stamp
- Stamped documents more expensive
- Colonialists angry
- Stamp
distributors
attacked
- They Stepped Down
- Boycott of British Goods
- Money lost in Britain
- Declaratory Act/Stamp Act Repeal
- Stamp Act Congress
- Petition saying in a nutshell: No Taxation without Representation
- Sugar Act
- More Resentment
- More Smuggling
- Quartering Act
- More Resentment
- Townshend
Duties
- Resentment
- All 13 Colonies protest
- Boycott of British Goods
- London dissolved colonial assemblies
- Mobs
- Press Campains
- Troops Sent to Boston
- The Boston
Massacre
- Funeral of Dead boy turned into political demonstration
- British Soldiers attacked at night
- "The shot heard around the world"
- 5 people dead
- Much Propganda
- The Repeal of the Townshend Duties
- The Tea Act
- Boycott of Tea
- The Boston
Tea Party
- 3 ships full of tea trapped in the harbour
- 60 Sons of Liberty emptied 342 chest of tea into harbour worth £10000
- Very angry americans
- 6 soldiers acquitted
- Coercive Acts
- Stronger resistance
- More British Soldiers
- Pressure in colonies
- The First
Continental
Congress
- First United Boycott
of Goods
- George III Refuses to repeal Coercive Acts
- Gage Demands 17000 extra troops
- Colonies continued to raise arms and militia