Causes Of The Road To Revolution
The Road to Revolution
Before the American Revolution, the British bossed around Americans by making them pay taxes to the British King,who thought he was great,until Americans got angry with him and started fighting.The British did not have any taxes or rules. It started with smugglers who did not sell their trade to the British,but to other places so they did not have to pay taxes. The four most important events that lead to the Road to Revolution are 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.
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When Lord North had most of the Townshend Acts repealed the tax on tea was not removed. By not removing the tax on tea was their way of telling the colonists they had the right to place taxes on merchandise being shipped to America. Merchants were not satisfied and protested against the taxation without representation. American pot cities were still being sent tea by the British but the Americans were buying most of their tea from smugglers. Merchants had come to an agreement not to sell the tea and it began to pile up in the warehouses. To keep down financial issues the British East India Company , that produced the tea, influenced Parliament to pass the Tea Act in 1773 which allowed the British to sell the tea at a cheaper price than the smugglers in spite of the tax. The colonists still refused to purchase the tea from the East India Company even though it was cheaper than the tea that was smuggled into the colonies. Merchants and Samuel Adams protested the act. In 1773 the East India Company had ships to carry 500,000 pounds of tea to Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Charlestown. In Boston, colonists tried to send the ships away but the governor of Massachusetts who wanted to see the 300 chest unloaded. A group of people disguised as Mohawks boarded the ship while it was in the harbor and dumped the tea into the Boston harbor. The Mohawks were recognizable under their disguises as the Boston’s Sons of Liberty. This incident became known as the Boston Tea Party which upset the Parliament, and their response ended in war. The British government thought this action deserved swift and severe punishment. In 1774 Parliament passed the Coercive Acts to punish
Before the American Revolution, the British bossed around Americans by making them pay taxes to the British King,who thought he was great,until Americans got angry with him and started fighting.The British did not have any taxes or rules. It started with smugglers who did not sell their trade to the British,but to other places so they did not have to pay taxes. The four most important events that lead to the Road to Revolution are 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.
Laws the regulated trade between Great Britain, its colonies, and the other parts of the world were known …show more content…
When Lord North had most of the Townshend Acts repealed the tax on tea was not removed. By not removing the tax on tea was their way of telling the colonists they had the right to place taxes on merchandise being shipped to America. Merchants were not satisfied and protested against the taxation without representation. American pot cities were still being sent tea by the British but the Americans were buying most of their tea from smugglers. Merchants had come to an agreement not to sell the tea and it began to pile up in the warehouses. To keep down financial issues the British East India Company , that produced the tea, influenced Parliament to pass the Tea Act in 1773 which allowed the British to sell the tea at a cheaper price than the smugglers in spite of the tax. The colonists still refused to purchase the tea from the East India Company even though it was cheaper than the tea that was smuggled into the colonies. Merchants and Samuel Adams protested the act. In 1773 the East India Company had ships to carry 500,000 pounds of tea to Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Charlestown. In Boston, colonists tried to send the ships away but the governor of Massachusetts who wanted to see the 300 chest unloaded. A group of people disguised as Mohawks boarded the ship while it was in the harbor and dumped the tea into the Boston harbor. The Mohawks were recognizable under their disguises as the Boston’s Sons of Liberty. This incident became known as the Boston Tea Party which upset the Parliament, and their response ended in war. The British government thought this action deserved swift and severe punishment. In 1774 Parliament passed the Coercive Acts to punish