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US Revolution - Causes and Road to War - Coggle Diagram
US Revolution - Causes and Road to War
The age of enlightenment
Movement of thinkers who valued reason and science above faith and authority as a basis for society
Disagreed with the divine right of kings
Questioning of authority
Restrictions on trade
Britain wanted cheap supply of American raw matieral
To sell back to America at a greater cost
Didn't want any other country to buy matierals
Britain decided the prices (VERY LITTLE)
Navigation acts were put in place - America could only sell to Britain
Seven Years War
War between Britain and France over control of American land
Britain win but are left in debt
Britain tax conalists in order to pay for the army
No Taxation without Representation
Stamp Act- Requiring all legal documents, wills, newspapers,certificates and playing cards to have a government stamp on it, which had to be paid for
Conilists were furious
Protests and Violence
Stamp men were beaten
Organised boycotts
The Boston Massacre
Townshend Acts were imposed
Taxes on goods that America imported
Americans furious
Confront British soldiers, but they opened fire and got killed
The Boston Tea Party
British withdrew all Townshend Acts and other taxes
Passed the tea act
1773- Group of SOn and Librety dressed as natives dumped 342 crates of tea into the Boston Harbour
The First Continetal Congress
These actions worried other colonies
Representives of conalies opposed all british taxes
Militias began to train and arm themselves
The Battle of Lexington and Concord
General Gage tried to stop these devolpments
sent 800 troops to seize weapons at concord near Boston
Paul Revere warned the rebels
Small Group of Americans engaged with the British
When the British reached Concord the weapons were gone
On the way back to Boston there was a large battle resulting in 273 deaths of British soldiers
The second Continental Congress
The violence in Massachuests convinced everone that a war was inevitable
Common Sense was read widley throughout coloneies
this stated that the Bitish were oppressing the Americans
When the 2nd continental Congress met met, it chose George Washington to become the comanderin-chief of the American Army
On July the 4th 1776 the Congress isued the decleration of independance