american revolution

• The causes of the American Revolution began with the Seven Years War.
• During the Seven Years War, Britain invaded Canada and colonized part of it.
• Enlightenment was a period where people started to question the divine right of kings.
• The first significant tax imposed on colonists was the Navigation Acts.
• The Navigation Acts stated that goods could only be imported and exported by British ships.
• The Stamp Act was a tax charged on bills, cards, licenses.
• In 1770, the British opened fire upon protesters, killing several people, in an event known as the Boston Massacre.
• Three years later, in 1773, the Boston Tea Party took place, where colonists dressed up as Native Americans and boarded the East India Company ships, throwing 342 crates of tea into the Boston Harbor.
• As a result of the Boston Tea Party, the colonists faced the Intolerable Acts.
• sons of liberty: a group of protestors who were against the tea tax
• intolerable acts: 1774 - taxes on tea, paper, and glass
• first continental congress: delegates from all thirteen colonies met to discuss their grievances with Britain
• second continental congress: delegates agreed that they would not import any goods from Great Britain until the repeal of the Townshend duties
• battle of lexington and concord: british troops marched towards concord to seize weapons but were ambushed by colonial militia at lexington
• declaration of independance - 1776, 13 colonies declared themselves independent from britain
• first shots of American revolution were fired at Lexington and concord