causes of the american revolution

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  1. 3. a meeting of delegates from 12 out of 13 colonies. This was in response to the Intolerable acts that the British had enforced. They wrote a letter to king george saying they needed a chnage.
  2. 5. the tea act said that ONLY the British East India Company to sell tea to the colonists.
  3. 6. the Boston colonists were upset, therefore, they snuck onto a British ship and threw the tea overboard.
  4. 9. : a meeting with delegates from ALL the 13 colonies which united the American revolutionary war.
  5. 12. tax colonists had to pay when buying stamps. This was unfair because they commonly bought. They had to pay taxes to get rid of the debt from the war.
  6. 13. colonists had to agree to provide food and homes for soldiers whenever it was needed.
  7. 14. English colonies started overpopulating causing them to go into the French and Indian land. British won the war.
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  1. 1. was a battle with the first military engagements of the American revolutionary war.
  2. 2. they made a line to keep each other outside of their land and to keep peace with the french and Indians and British
  3. 4. a document that listed all the wrongs King George 3 did and declared the separation of the 13 colonies from Britain.
  4. 7. king George and British merchants were upset because the colonists refused to buy imported goods because of all the taxes. . The British sent out warships, tension grew and shots were fired. 5 people laid dead.
  5. 8. was to advance the rights of the European colonists and to fight British taxation.
  6. 10. a British political philosopher and writer who supported revolutionary causes in America and Europe.
  7. 11. tax put on imported sugar for the west indies. They had to pay taxes to get rid of the debt from the war.