Causes Of The Revolution Timelines

The Sugar Act was a raised of taxes on imports of raw sugar and molasses; also silk, wine, coffee, pimento and indigo. the property seized was guilty until proven innocent. England was allowed to seize without due process pamphlets were circulated against the Sugar Act. It enforced the collection of duties.

Stamp act:
The stamp act also was one of the acts passed after the Boston tea party. This act was passed and made it to where all paper goods now had taxes. The citizens of Boston were already struggling and the majority of them were poor. This did not help considering they were hiring the tax for other good. This was making them very mad and made them even more poor. This was a big reason why the colonists rebelled.

Proclamation of 1763

Spring of 1763
Chief Pontiac of the Ottawa people decided to start a war with England. The war took place Britain broke a treaty by moving into western Pennsylvania, but the British didn't want to pay for another war. Therefore, in October 1763, King George III issued the ̈ proclamation of 1763 ̈, which drew a north-south line along the Appalachian Mountains.

The Boston Massacre was led to riots in the Boston streets a customs officials to demand more protection in June 1768. Britain send 4 new regiments who the colonists mocked and harassed. They began taunting and throwing snowballs at a British solder that started to call for help. troops began firing on the crowd first men to die was Crispus Attucks.

Quartering act
This act was passed after the Boston tea party. This act made the citizens of Boston open up their homes to the British no matter what. They had to feed them and give them a place to sleep if needed. Not only that but they had to clean up after the soldiers. So they had to feed them give a place to sleep and clean up after them and had no way to say no to the soldiers. If the citizens did say no they would be punished. Sometimes the red coats would bring them to the middle of town to whip them so they could make an example.

The committees of correspondence were governments organized by the Patriot leaders of the thirteen colonies on the eve of the American Revolution. They coordinated responses to England and shared their plans by 1773 they had emerged as a shadow governments, superseding the colonial legislature and royal officials. The Maryland Committee of Correspondence was instrumental in setting up the First Continental Congress. These served an important role in the Revolution, by spreading the colonial interpretation of British actions between the colonies and to foreign governments. The committees of correspondence rallied opposition on common causes and established plans for collective action, and so the group of committees was the beginning of what later became a formal political union among the colonies.

Gaspee incident started on June 9, 1772. The Gaspee is a British ship in Rhode Island. A Sons of Liberty group attacked and set fire to the ship. The British Government threatened to send the American that were involved for trial in England, but no one was arrested. Their threat to send Americans to trial in England sparked alarmed protests in the colonies who were informed of the incident by the Committees of Correspondence. The permanent Committees of Correspondence led to the founding of the First Continental Congress and eventually the Declaration of Independence.

The boston Tea Party was Prior to the tea act colonists had been smuggling in cheaper dutch tea.British East India Company had more than 17 million pounds of tea that needed quick sale. The colonists saw this as an attempt to cut them out of the trade

Intolerable act
The intolerable act was an act the was passed after the Boston tea party. This act made it to where the people had fewer rights and even more of their freedom and also made the citizens more poor than they already were. The act was a bundle of acts the citizens of Boston had to follow. The acts included the Boston Port Act, which shut down Boston's port until all the tea destroyed was paid for. The second act was the Massachusetts Government Act, which forced council members, judges and sheriffs in Mass. to be appointed by the governor instead of being elected. The third act was the Administration of Justice Act, which allowed the transfer of trials of British soldiers back to England to protect them from American juries. The fourth and last act was the Quartering Act. The Quartering Act required local officials to provide lodging for British soldiers.

The First Continental Congress started September 5, 1774 and ended in 1789. It was a meeting of delegates from 12 British colonies (that didn’t include Georgia) to vote for a new country. In September 5 to October 26, 1774 the British Navy cut off supplies of Boston Harbor and passed the Intolerable Acts as a punishment in response to the December 1773 Boston Tea Party. The Congress delegates had a discussion about how the colonies could respond to the British government actions. The delegates rejected a plan to create unity between Britain and the Colonies. Instead they agreed to stop the boycott on British trade and made a petition to the King by apologizing to repeal the Acts. That option didn’t had a effect since the king didn’t answer back.