The Most Important Events In The Road To Revolution

Have you ever wondered how much history has really changed? There are so many major events in The Road To Revolution such as, The Navigation Act of 1660, The French and Indian War:1754-1763, Pontiac’s Rebellion and Proclamation of 1763. There are also The Sugar Act: 1764, The Stamp Act: 1765, The Declaratory Act: 1766, The Townsend Act: 1767, The Boston Massacre: 1770, The Boston Tea Party: 1773, and The Intolerable Acts of 1774. These are all very important events in The Revolutionary War. As a result, The Navigation Act of 1660 was the act that started it all. The Navigation Act are acts of limiting trade by using mercantilism beyond colonists. The colonists couldn’t trade certain items such as, sugar and cotton, with

The colonists protested about the unfair taxes they were expected to follow. England said that it would benefit the goods in England because they had a steady market. Most of the colonists didn’t agree and soon began smuggling items in and out of the colonies because of the treatment by the British. The French and Indian War was about the British and the colonial milita wanting to defeat the French. The British would leave an army in the colonies to protect them from attacks. As a result, Prime Minister George wanted the colonists to pay for the war and protection. So he asked Parliament to higher the taxes. Parliament had changed the colonies’ legal system, and the colonists became upset over parliaments actions. The colonists felt like they had grown independent now. They also thought Parliament needed their permission to start taxing them. The colonists believed they had no direct representation. The colonists soon spoke out against Taxation without Representation. The Pontiac’s Rebellion and Proclamation was about the fight over expansion of the English colonies into Native-American frontier. The British were physically and financially broken after the long, costly war that they

The colonists violated the Proclamation of 1763 set with chief Pontiac. The Sugar Act was on act to raise money from the colonists. Great Britain needed the money to pay for protection against the Native-Americans. Great Britain started putting taxes on sugar, which made the colonist upset. They believed they were the ones who started the war with the French and Indians. They also felt like they had no representation within parliament. Samuel Adams had founded the committees to improve the colonies communication. This was a disagreement with the mother country. Soon, the theme “No Taxation without Representation”became the colonies common slogan. The Stamp Act was for newspapers, licenses, and colonial paper products to be taxed. A series of resolutions are published stating the rights of the colonists were being violated by The Stamp Act. The act was passed on March 22, 1765 by the British parliament. The Tax was that every printed paper any American colonists used, they had to pay a tax on it. The money that was collected by the stamp act was used to defending and protecting the frontier near the Appalachian Mountains. The cost of the act was actually small. In all cases, Parliament can make laws the colonists at any point. Colonists started to feel like they were losing control. They thought that the British crowd didn’t think they were capable of making their own laws and holding court cases. The