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The Seven Years’ War was a conflict between the English and the French. It was mainly caused by both sides’ desire to dominate North America. The war began in 1754 and ended in 1763. The Native American population was involved in the war as well as the colonists, due to the English making the colonists fight for England.

I would rate the war itself a 2 on the Unrest-O-Meter. The war alone did not cause much unrest on its own; it was the aftereffects of the war that led to the increase in colonial unrest. However the war did lead to the colonists uniting in order to fight, even though the fight was not against the English yet. The events taking place after the Seven Years' War were mostly the reason of the spread of unrest throughout the colonies, which is why the Seven Years' War is viewed by some as one of the causes that led up to the American Revolution.

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Colonists move west of the Appalachian Mountains 1763

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Colonists move west of the Appalachian Mountains 1763

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After the Seven Years’ War, the British forbid the colonists from crossing the Appalachian mountains, claiming that the land to the West of the Appalachian mountains was Indian land. This was the Proclamation of 1763. The colonists were not happy about the proclamation as they had fought in the war where blood was shed and they still did not gain anything. The colonists thought that the proclamation was unfair to them, so they decided to go against it and move westward towards Ohio Valley.

I would rate colonists moving west of the Appalachian Mountains a 5 on the Unrest-O-Meter as it is a passive aggressive move on behalf of the colonists who decided to come together and advance westward. It shows just enough amount of unrest where colonists are willing to make a move to oppose the actions of the British, but not enough to actually confront the British.

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Following the British Victory over the French in the Seven Year war, King George III makes the Royal Proclamation of 1763 in order to calm the fears of the Native Indian populations in America. The British government calms the Natives by forbidding the westward expansion of the American Colonists and increasing the profit gained from the Indian Fur Trade. I would rate the Proclamation of 1763 a 3 on the Unrest-O-Meter due to the extreme actions taken by the colonists. The Colonists expressed their anger without violence and instead discussed their anger throughout the colonies and lobbied the Government in Britain for their rights to expand west. Since no protests or violent acts took place, it is fair to give a low score on the Unrest-O-Meter. At the end of the Proclamation of 1763, the colonist got their way with the creation of three new treaties with the Indians on westward land expansion.

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After the Seven Year War had finished, the decaying economy in Europe struggled to keep up with the growing economy in America. As the British had to import more goods to America, Colonial Merchants have been increasing their profits by smuggling products and bribing port officials to keep quiet about the actions taking place at the ports. As this continued, it was the decision of Prime Minister of Britain, George Grenville, to increase enforcement of laws to stop the smuggling and collect revenue from the colonists by taxing them in trade for products and protection.

I would give the Grenville’s Tax plan a Unrest-O-Meter rate of 3 since the colonists did not react with violence or extreme protests. There was discussion as the British American merchants were no longer able to make product by smuggling due to the increased government enforcement. Although this upset the colonists, there was not much to be done on the side of the colonists at the time.

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Unlike most Taxation Acts implemented by the British Parliament, the colonist were more worried about the negative economic effects rather than the fact that they are being taxed without representation. The Sugar Act taxed all sugar products such as Molasses and Rum. After Britain decided to cut the tax rate of sugar in half and increase enforcement of tax collection, the colonists began to fear Britain. The Sugar Act is one event that gateways into the American revolution as Britain’s increased tax enforcement also increased law enforcement at ports making smuggling more difficult. Due to the decrease in smuggling, the colonies receive less income. The two main protesters of the Sugar Act were Samuel Adams and James Otis along with fifty merchants from Boston made the decision to protest the Sugar Act by not purchasing luxury goods imported from Britain.

I would give the Sugar Act a rate of 6 on the Unrest-O-Meter because although there were protests done by the colonists against Britain Imports, majority of the colonies did not participate in it. Since there was not a mass amount of colonists, the effects of the protest are not as great as if there were one hundred colonists involved therefore causing the Sugar Act to have a moderate rate on the Unrest-O-Meter.

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The Stamp Act was passed by British Parliament to tax the American colonies by forcing them to pay purchase a stamp for all printed papers and documents. Although the actual price of the stamp was relatively little, it was the fact that the colonists were taxed without representation that angered the colonists. Since the British government needed income in order to revive their economy from the French and Indian War, the colonies understood their situation, however, wanted to come up with their own ways of collecting money for Britain instead of being taxed without representation.

I would give the Stamp Act a Unrest-O-Meter rate of 4 as most colonists did nothing against it and paid the tax. On the other hand, the rest of the colonists only paid the taxes while waiting for the Virginia House of Burgesses to accept Patrick Henry’s Stamp Act Resolves describing how the American colonists should have the same rights as the British in that they can only be taxed by only their own representative.

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After the Stamp Act was an act that forced American colonies to pay taxes on stamps on every printed paper and document. The Virginia Resolves were passed by the Virginia House of Burgesses in response to the Stamp Act. The Virginia Resolves were a series of resolutions, and they stated that Virginians are not represented in England and therefore should not have to pay taxes to them.

I would rate the Virginia Resolves a 5 on the Unrest-O-Meter since the Virginians are showing discomfort and indirectly speaking out about it. It isn’t high on the Unrest-O-Meter nor low due to the fact that it didn’t exactly cause a great unification resulting in a revolt but it did lead to England repealing the act.

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Colonists protest: “No taxation without representation” 1765 

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Colonists protest: “No taxation without representation” 1765 

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“No taxation without representation” was a slogan heavily related to the Virginia Resolves. The colonists were not happy about having to pay taxes to Parliament. The slogan refers to how the Parliament does not represent the colonists, and how if it did there might have been a chance of this revolt against England not happening.

I would rate the “No taxation without representation” protest a 7 on the Unrest-O-Meter due to the fact that these protests reflect how the unrest in the colonies built up after the several tax acts England passed in the colonies.

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The Sons of Liberty were a secretive group of colonist that were against Britain’s laws and taxation. The Sons of Liberty formed groups in order to protest and take action against Britain. The main actions taken by the Sons of Liberty are the protests of the Stamp Acts and the Boston Tea Party.

I would give the Sons of Liberty a rate of 10 on the Unrest-O-Meter due to their unification and extreme actions taken. It took the unification of colonists in order for this group to function as a whole and stay secretive. Along with the unity aspect of the Sons of Liberty, the protests of the Stamp Act and the Boston Tea Party were major events leading up to the American Revolution.

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Held in New York City, twenty seven representatives from the thirteen colonies appeared to discuss their hatred of the Stamp Act placed by the British Government without the colony’s consent. This meeting gateways to the creation of the Declaration of Rights as the creation of the Stamp Act upset the Colonists in that it was opposing their rights.

I would give the Stamp Act Congress a rate of 6 on the Unrest-O-Meter since it was the event that caused the colonies to begin the creation of the Declaration of rights. The colonies showed unity as they each selected representatives from each colony to speak for them at the Stamp Act Congress. As opinions were expressed, it allowed the colonies to plan their next move in order to get their rights from Britain back. This action deserves a moderately high rate due to the events that it gateways to.

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After the repeal of the Stamp Act of 1766, Chancellor of the Exchequer in the new Chatham administration, Charles Townshend, created a new revenue act in order to stop the volatile assemblies happening within the American colonies. Townshend enforced these taxes on British china, glass, paper, pasteboard, lead, paint, and tea by creating a Board of Customs Commissioners. Although the tax was approved by the Commons and Lords, the British Americans strongly protested. Starting by sending pamphlets and petitions to the King and Parliament of Colonial assemblies, it increased over time as the British Americans then refused to import British goods. I would give the Townshend Duties a score of 7 on the Unrest-O-Meter due to the protests done by the British Americans. The British Americans were unified during the Townshend Duties as they forgo British imports as a whole in order to make their anger towards the taxation without representation clear to the British government. If only a small group of British Americans refused the British imports, the British government would not have gotten their message, however, since majority of the British Americans unified together in order to get the tax repealed, the message was heard loud and clear by Britain.

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Colonist boycotts were the colonists not buying British goods in an attempt to stop the trade and therefore end the taxes. The boycotts happened after the Townshend Duties and were most noticeable and impactful in large cities. The upper class, which were the aristocrats, were the ones being affected most by these boycotts. As a result of colonists boycotting British goods, Britain changed the laws once again. However, they still kept the tax on tea in an attempt to assert their dominance.

I would rate colonists boycotting British goods a 7 on the Unrest-O-Meter because in order to boycott something, everyone’s participation is required. If only a few people participate in a boycott, that boycott will not be successful as it will not fulfill its purpose. This shows that throughout all of the colonies there was significant unrest that led to the colonists unifying against Britain in order to boycott.

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The Boston Massacre was a riot that occurred between the colonists and the English soldiers where the colonists threw snowballs, stones, and sticks at the English soldiers. As an attempt at stopping this riot the English soldiers fired at the colonists, resulting in the death of five people and many injured. The Boston Massacre then became a good story to spread to the rest of the colonies in order to urge people into revolting against the English. The death of 5 people may not be considered a massacre, but the patriots amplified the event while retelling it for propaganda purposes.

I would rate the Boston Massacre a 7 on the Unrest-O-Meter because it helped unify the colonists against the English due to colonists being killed and blood being shed. The Boston Massacre caused a different type of unrest as the taxing acts caused a philosophical revolt whereas the Boston Massacre involved an actual physical fight between the colonists and the English that resulted in the death of colonists by the English.

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The Committees of Correspondence were emergency governments by Patriots. The Committees of Correspondence were organized years before the Revolution, and their purpose was to maintain connection between colonies. However, during the years leading up to the Revolution, they helped increase the communication between Patriot leaders in different colonies, expanding unification. These governments started forming in large cities throughout the colonies; the first one formed in Boston and influenced the Boston Tea Party carried out by the Sons of Liberty.

I would rate the Committees of Correspondence a 6 on the Unrest-O-Meter. The Committees of Correspondence were a sign of unrest throughout the colonies and they did lead to unification, but they seemed to only unify Patriots which is why the Committees of Correspondence are not high up on the Unrest-O-Meter.

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The Tea Act one of the taxation acts that the British put on the colonists before the American Revolution. The Tea Act, for England, was an attempt of having the colonists financially support Britain by paying taxes on tea as well as to reduce the abundance of tea Britain had. At the time of the Tea Act, most Townshend taxes were repealed yet the Tea Act remained. This was an attempt on Britain's behalf to assert dominance over the American colonists after the colonists boycotted British goods. The colonists were not pleased about still having to pay taxes without representation, which resulted in the Boston Tea Party occurring.

I would rate the Tea Act a 8 on the Unrest-O-Meter due to it clearly causing the most unrest out of all of the other tax acts, as seen from the Boston Tea Party. The colonial unrest can be seen by the fact that after the Boston Tea Party, several other cities with ports were seen doing the same thing: dumping tea overboard.

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The Boston Tea Party was a direct response by the American colonists to the Tea Act, in which a group of Sons of Liberty members disguised themselves as Mohawk Indians, boarded ships moored in the Boston Harbor, and dumped over 92,000 pounds of tea overboard. The Boston Tea Party was a political and mercantile protest. As a result, Britain put forth the Boston Port Act, which was one of the five measures of the Coercive Acts.

I would rate the Boston Tea Party a solid 10 on the Unrest-O-Meter due to the actions taken by the American colonists against the British. Throwing the tea overboard not only grabbed the attention of the British, but it also unified the colonies in physically protesting since it led to several other cities with ports in other colonies to follow the actions of the Sons of Liberty members in Boston and dump tea overboard as well. The British saw this as another act of rioting against Britain by not following the laws, yet the colonists claimed that what they were doing were defending their rights and not merely breaking rules to get attention.

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The Coercive Acts were designed in order to punish Massachusetts for lost of money the East India Company faced after the Boston Tea Party. All ports in Boston were closed till Massachusetts paid off all they owed to the East India Company for their Tea Party. Britain also placed this Act in hopes of separating New England from the other colonies in order to stop the unification of the colonies against Britain. However, the Coercive Act only increased unification as other colonies sent supplies to help Boston and then formed the provincial Congress to discuss their resistance of the British government.

I would give the Coercive Acts a rate of 7 on the Unrest-O-Meter due to the unification seen throughout the colonies and the intense discussion of Britain’s rule over the colonies leading up to the American Revolution.

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The intolerable Acts included five Acts which are The Boston Port Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Administration of Justice Act, Quartering Act, and Quebec Act. The Boston Port Act was placed in order to take action against Boston’s tea party. The Act closed all of Boston’s ports from shipping till full restitution to the East India Company the King was made for the lost of tea and revenue. The Massachusetts Government Act was established in order to increase the royal control over the colony’s administration. The king declared that the executive council will no longer have democratically elected representatives but instead appointed by the king directly. The Administration of Justice Act made it able for royal officials to change the location of their trail if criminally charged during duty. This caused for unjust as it was felt by the colonist that the royal officials were only escaping justice. The Quartering Act describes the types of unoccupied buildings that soldiers can be housed in. The Quebec Act ensured the king’s Canadian subjects loyalty by increasing the boundary of Quebec and allowing the practice of Christianity. Overall, the Intolerable Acts were in place in order to increase the power held by Parliament on the colonial assemblies.

I would give the Intolerable Acts a rate of 5 on the Unrest-O-Meter since actions were taken by the Colonists, however, not to an extreme. After the Acts were in place, the colonial leaders felt their rights to be threatened and therefore created a Committee of Correspondence to discuss the Acts. During these discussions, it was decided by the colonials that if Britain does not repeal these Acts within a year, the colonies will stop all exports to Britain and protect Massachusetts if attacked.

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Virginia House of Burgesses is Dissolved 1774

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Virginia House of Burgesses is Dissolved 1774

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Due to the revolutionary activities performed by the House of Burgesses, Governor Lord Dunmore disbanded it. However, this was only a minor setback for the colonists as they then created the House of Delegates in which two representatives from each county and one from each city were elected by Landowners. As the House of Burgesses dissolved, Patrick Henry delivered his famous speech “Give me Liberty or Give me Death”. This speech showcased Virginia’s intentions to become independent from Britain.

I would rate the Virginia House of Burgesses dissolving a 5 on the Unrest-O-Meter because it displays unification as Patrick Henry’s speech gained more followers and other colonies began to follow Virginia’s lead for independence. Since no violence or protests were present, the dissolvement of House of Burgesses deserves a moderate rate on the Unrest-O-Meter.

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The First Continental Congress was a meeting of twelve of the thirteen colonies. They met in the early stages in the American Revolution at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The purpose of this meeting was to discuss the Coercive Acts, which were acts put against the colonists as a result of them refusing to comply with Britain’s other taxation acts and of them rioting. The 55 colonial representatives included John Adams, Samuel Adams, George Washington, and Patrick Henry. Georgia was the only colony that did not send representatives.

I would rate the First Continental Congress a 9 on the Unrest-O-Meter due to the fact that twelve out of thirteen colonies were present at the meeting. This shows that the level of unrest throughout the colonies was high enough to require holding such a meeting. The meeting was also held in the early stages in the American Revolution, showing the increasing colonial unrest.

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The Battle of Lexington and Concord was the first of the American revolution. Due to the colonies anger towards Britain increased, Britain fears a rebellion from the colonies. British General, Thomas Gage, ordered troops to take all weapons and powers stored in Concord, Massachusetts from the colonies in order to avoid violence. However, the plan slowly failed as while at their stop in Lexington, a gun shot was fired and seven troops were killed. This did not stop the British troops as they continued their journey to Concord. When the British arrived at the North Bridge, four hundred armed patriots began to fire at the troops causing mass casualties.

I would give the Battle of Lexington and Concord a Unrest-O-Meter rate of 10 due to the extreme measures taken by the colonies. As the colony’s militiamen fired upon the British troops, the troops experienced major casualties compared to the casualties of the Patriots. Along with the extreme actions taken by the Patriots, unification of the colony can also be seen as a mass amount of the Patriots were at the North bridge ready to shoot and die for the colonies.

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The Declaration of Independence severed the American colonies’ political connection to Britain, giving them their freedom. It was written by Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston and was published on July 4, 1776. The Declaration of Independence was a result of the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In response, King George III officially declared the colonies to be in a state of rebellion, which resulted in the start of the Revolutionary War.

I would say the rate of the went from a 10 to a 1 on Unrest-O-Meter with the Declaration of Independence. Years and years of being bound to the laws, government, and taxes of Britain, the American colonies finally gained their independence. The Declaration of Independence was a result of the built up colonial unrest finally unraveling and dropping down from a 10 to a 1. The Declaration of Independence unified the American colonies and with this unification, the colonists fought the British together during the Revolutionary War.