Causes of the American Revolution: Acts and Laws

“England cannot tax the sugar we buy just because they spent too much money fighting France!”

• Sugar Act

• Boston Tea Party

• Tea Act

“Why should I have to spend my money on British soldiers?  Why do they have to stay in my house? They are violating my rights!”

• Stamp Act

• Quartering Act

• Boston Massacre

“Not another tax!  I will not pay for a stamp on my newspaper!”

• Tea Act

• Sugar Act

• Stamp Act

"The British soldiers should have not fired at the colonists and killed five of them!"

• Boston Tea Party

• Tea Act

• Boston Massacre 

“That’s what you get for forcing us to buy your tea!”

• Boston Tea Party

• Tea Act

• Sugar Act

"I will not be forced to buy tea from England!"

• Sugar Act

• Boston Tea Party

• Tea Act

“We will not pay for the tea dumped in Boston Harbor (Boston Tea Party).  And we will not give up our right to meet!”

• Boston Tea Party

• Proclamation of 1763

• Intolerable Acts

“Colonists should have the right to move west of the Appalachian Mountains if they wish to.”

• Sugar Act

• Boston Massacre

• Proclamation of 1763