Question

Identify two events that led to the American Revolution. Define each event and explain how it caused tension between the colonists and Great Britain.
Please Explain.

Answer 1

Answer:

Explanation:

The men and women who colonized the New World did so because they desired opportunity for themselves and their kids and desired a level of freedom. They were generally not the type of people who would tolerate these things being taken away from them.

The formation of colonial legislatures gave the colonist a feeling of independence from British rule in that they were able to pass their own laws and muster troops.

Prior to the end of the French and Indian War Britten pretty much did not interfere with the American colonist and were very lax with many of the regulations that were in place. This British policy was dubbed salutary neglect. This all changed after the French and Indian War and the need of the British to raise money to pay their war debts. The colonist resented this interference.

A cultural movement took place in Europe in the late 1600s and 1700s called the Enlightenment. Writers involved in this movement such as John Locke wrote about such issues as limited government and consent of the governed. This movement influenced the thinking of many of the founding fathers as they began to seek liberty and freedom from the control of the British.

Sugar Act (1764). This British law charged duties on sugar imported by the colonies. Several other products were also taxed.

Currency Act (1751 and 1764). Several Acts which regulated the issuing of money by the American colonist.

Stamp Act (1765). This British law required certain printed materials including newspapers in America be on paper produced in Brittan and stamped with a revenue stamp.

Quartering Act (1765). This act forced the colonist to provide food and shelter for British soldiers when needed.

Townshend Acts (1767). A series of acts passed By Brittan beginning in 1767 that taxed the colonies.

Boston Massacre (1770). An angry mob of colonist confronts British soldiers in Boston. Five colonists are killed.

Tea Act (1773). This act basically gave the British East India Company a monopoly on tea trade in the Americas.

Boston Tea Party (1773). In response to the Tea Act patriots dressed as American Indians dump British tea into Boston Harbor.

Intolerable Acts (1774). A series of laws also called the Coercive Acts passed by Brittan in response to the Boston Tea Party.

Answer 2

Answer:

1. The Stamp Act (March 1765)

2. The Boston Tea Party (December 1773)

Explanation:

1. The Stamp Act (March 1765)

To try to recuperate some of the massive debt left over from the war with France, Parliament passed laws such as the Stamp Act, which for the first time taxed a wide range of transactions in the colonies, The colonists didn’t understand it that way. They feel aggrieved not only having to buy things from the British but pay tax on them as well. “The tax never got collected, because there were riots all over the pace,”

2. The Boston Tea Party (December 1773)

The British ultimately removed their forces from Boston and retracted much of the onerous Townshend regulation. But they left in place the tax on tea, and in 1773 enacted a new law, the Tea Act, to support up the financially struggling British East India Company. The act gave the company extended favorable treatment under tax regulations, so that it could sell tea at a price that undercut the American merchants who imported from Dutch trader

and in retaliation The Sons of Liberty, a radical group, decided to confront the British head-on. they were disguised as Mohawks, they boarded three ships in Boston harbor and destroyed more than 92,000 pounds of British tea by dumping it into the harbor.

the act of defiance “really ticked off the British government,” Randall explains. “Many of the East India Company’s shareholders were members of Parliament