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1 What lead to the American Revolution…
By: Jillian Javier

2 The Royal Proclamation
The Royal Proclamation lead towards the American Revolution because it gave the Natives to have Ohio and Mississippi River Valleys. This angered the Thirteen Colonies because the land was only for Natives and nobody else could set foot in it.

3 The Quebec Act According to the 1774 Intolerable Acts, the Quebec Act was one of an intolerable act. The Quebec Acts aim was towards Biculturalism: to allow the French and British ways of doing things.

4 1764 Townshend act Taxes were placed on glass, tea, silk, paper, paint and lead.

5 1764 sugar act In the 1764 Sugar Act, prices were raised when taxes were put onto imported goods such as sugar and molasses.

6 1765 Stamp act Any documents or papers that needed to be stamped costed money because you needed to pay in order for it to be stamped. Tax collectors were terrorized.

7 1773 Tea act East Indian companies were given the right to sell tea in North America. Their ships have been refused admittance into the harbours of New York and Philadelphia. During this act, people disguised themselves as natives and dumped three boatloads of tea from the British ships into the harbour.

8 1774 Intolerable acts The 1774 Intolerable Acts consisted of the result of the 1773 Tea Act. Boston closed all it’s ships only until all destroyed tea was paid for.

9 Boston massacre In 1770 nervous British soldiers misunderstood an order and fired their muskets into a crowd of protesters in Boston. As a result they killed a little bit people. This quickly turned into a anti- british propaganda by colonial leaders.

10 The british Parliament
The British parliament was determined to raise money from the colonies, using all of the taxes from the Intolerable Acts and the Acts that required taxes.

11 The british Government
The government was not a responsible government because they didn’t listen to the citizens who weren’t in the government. Although there was a Legislative Assembly, the one’s who were appointed did actually have to listen to them.

12 Participatory Democracy
The democracy was unfair because only men who were landowners had the right to vote.

13 The issue of rights The American colonists felt that the British Government was disregarding their interests and that their rights as British subjects were being trampled by the them.

14 The sons of liberty More violent incidents indicated that the American colonies were on the edge of revolution.

15 Massachusetts government Act
Every position in the colonies government were appointed by the British.

16 Administration of justice act
British officials that were accused of crimes were allowed to have their trails held in another colony.

17 Thank you *all my photos were from Google*
The end Thank you *all my photos were from Google*


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