Events leading to the cause of the Revolutionary War
During the late seventeen hundreds, many events resulted in colonial opposition to Great Britain. The British created laws and taxes that were viewed as unjust and unfair. The colonists accepted Britain's rules and taxes at first, but only for a certain period. They soon grew weary of Britain and chose to declare their independence. The beginning of their turmoil began during the French and Indian War. Britain had passed a series of Navigation Acts. These acts were to forbid the colonists from trading with any outside country other than England. The colonists did not mind at first, because they needed British protection and because they did not enforce the laws strictly. After the British won the French and Indian War, all French presence was removed from America. However, Indian uprisings led to the Proclamation of 1763. This proclamation stated that nobody may enter the Ohio Valley unless they were licensed fur traders. British troops were posted on the frontier to enforce this. This angered the colonist because they felt that they did not need British protection anymore and that they were holding them back form settling into the fertile Ohio Valley. The French and Indian War had cost England much money. To p
Great Britain felt that the colonists were getting insubordinate. Britain issued a Declaratory act in 1765 that was essentially a statement of British power over the colonists. The colonists were relieved to have the Stamp Act gone that they paid very little attention to this declaration. The colonists had their second continental congress in 1775. At their meeting they sent an "olive branch partition" to the king that asked him to help protect them from parliament. They also set up an official Continental Army. They chose George Washington to be the commander in chief. The next event in the British-colonist conflict is looked back as one of the worst events in colonial history. Colonists were protesting outside the Customs building. They were throwing balls of ice and snow with rocks. One of these hit a soldier and he fell. On his way down he discharged a round from his musket. The other soldiers, alarmed, started to open fire on the colonist protestors. The captain of the guards instructed them to hold their fire, but they could not hear him. After smoke cleared, three Americans lay dead on the ground and two more died later of their wounds. Paul Revere made an engraving of the incident and labeled it the Boston massacre. They widely reproduced and spread this through the colonies. After colonists about talked independence more freely, it grew acceptance. On July second, 1776, Thomas Jefferson started drafting a declaration of independence. On July fourth, it was accepted and America declared their independence from Great Britain. ay this off they started making taxes on the colonies. They first tax was the Sugar Act of 1764. This was an indirect tax on goods such as sugar, coffee, other imported items. The colonists started claiming this was taxation without representation. They repealed the act. In 1773, Britain came out with a Tea Act. This act gave a monopoly of the tea trade to the East India Company. The act lowered t
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