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Road to Revolution (Intolerable Acts (A series of punitive laws passed by…
Road to Revolution
Intolerable Acts
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The five acts: Boston Tea Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Administration of Justice Act, Quartering Act, Quebec Act,
Became a rallying cry for patriots in America. The colonists felt as if their basic rights were being taken away from them. Also called the Coercive Acts.
Sugar Act 1764
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Colonists perceived the act as an infringement of their constitutional rights. They thought it violated their rights of "no taxation without representation"
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Battle of Saratoga
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The success at Saratoga gave France the confidence in the American cause to enter the war as an American ally.
Boston Tea Act
Authorized the East India Company to bypass American wholesalers and sell tea directly to American distributors.
Boston Tea Party: colonists disguised as indians dumped barrels of British tea into the Boston harbor
British government closed Boston harbor to trade, changed the Massachusetts colonial charter and forbid town meetings more than once a year.
Proclamation of 1763
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The royal government stationed 10,000 troops
in the colonies- the first time a standing army
had been stationed in the colonies
Albany Plan of Union
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It was never carried out, but it was the first important proposal to think of the colonies as a collective whole united under one government.