Causes of the American Revolution by Payson McCartney

Boston Tea Party

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Chests of tea were destroyed in the Boston Harbor.

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4 laws that were passed by the British Parliament to punish the Massachusetts colony.

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The taxes violated the guaranteed rights of the Englishmen.

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It initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea.

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Seven British soldiers fired into a crowd of volatile Bostonians.

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They had a lack of crops and they had little money too.

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British economic policy was based on mercantilism, which aimed to use the American colonies to bolster British state power and finances.

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Granted Great Britain's Parliament the Authority to tax the American colonies.

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An order directing that a party convey, deliver, or turn over a deed, document, or right of ownership.

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It was a series of laws that restricted trade and increased British control.

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The Indian and French War was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France.