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The Main Cause of the American Revolution

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The Main Cause of the American Revolution

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The main cause was by colonial opposition to British attempts to impose greater control over the colonies and to make them repay the crown for its defense of them during the French and Indian War.

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The sons of liberty was a secret organization that was created in the 13 American Colonies to advance for the rights of the European colonists and to fight taxation by the British government. It also played a major role in most colonies for battling the stamp act in 1765.

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With The Boston Tea party act this was one of the most violent parts of the American Revolution. This was the first try for the colonists to to rebel against violence with their own government then the government passed taxes on lead paper, paint and tea.

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Was the first tax on the American Colonies for sugar that was imposed by the British Parliament and this act made the colonists refused to pay taxes. Its purpose was to raise revenue through the colonial customs service and to give custom agents more power to enforcing seizures and enforce custom laws and this also lead to the American revolution.

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The French and Indian War provided Great Britain territory gains in North America. But disputes over war expenses led to the colonial discontent and ultimately over to the American Revolution.

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during the American Revolution the Currency Act protected British Merchants from being paid in colonial currency. the policy created tension in the colonies and Great Britain, and made it unfair by colonists in the early American Revolution.

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between 1775 and 1783 trough the Great Britain's 13 Original Colonies threw off British rule to Establish the United States of America. Next America won during the war so they claimed the Declaration of Independence from Great Britain.

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The Stamp Act was the new tax that was imposed on all American colonists an required to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper used including ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers.

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The Intolerable acts were passed by the British Parliament. The British instated the facts to make an example of the Boston Tea Party , and the outrage they caused that became the major push that led to the American Revolution.

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The Boston Massacre occurred March 5th, 1770 when British soldiers opened fire on a group of American colonists killing 5 men. The Boston Massacre had instituted a number of new taxes, tea, paint,glass, and lead.