Dbq French Revolution

Have you ever wondered what happened in the revolution? Would you know how to answer questions about it? Learn or discover when things happened?
Well today you will learn all about the Navigation Acts, French and Indian war, Pontiac's Rebellion and proclamation of 1763, The Sugar Act, The Stamp Act,Declaratory Act, The Townshend Act, The Boston Massacre, and Intolerable Acts.
Well today you will understand why all the acts and everything happened
The Navigation Act:1660
The Navigation Act limited trade throughout the Pacific Ocean It limited Items such as salt, pepper, and other useful materials. When they placed the Navigation Act many people were upset. They fought for their rights back
The

French and The Indian War:
The French and Indian War was against the British and the Colonial Military will determine the French, Native-Americans, and the Spanish, However the British will leave a permanent army in the colonies to protect them from NA attacks. As a result Prime Minister George Grenville asked parliament asked parliament to pass higher taxes on the colonies to pay for the war and protection.
Colonists felt like they were independents now and the British parliament needed their permission to start taxing the colonists furthermore colonists believed that they had no direct
response in parliament colonists spoke out against the Taxation without Representation.

Pontiac's Rebellion and Proclamation of 1763
Chief Pontiac unsatisfied with the French’s argument the hand over land that didn’t belong entirely to them decided to carry on a war effort against the British after the conclusion of the French and Indian war. Pontiac's Rebellion, was being fought over the expansion of the English.
The British had plans of repaying the war effort off by means of the newly acquired fur trade they had won from the French.
The Sugar Act of:1764
On April 5, 1764 parliament passed a modified version of The Sugar Act which was about to expire.But because of corruption, they mostly eroded the taxes and undercut the intention of tax. The Sugar Act reduce the rate of tax from 6 pence to 3 pence for gallon. The act also listed more foreign goods to be taxe including sugar, certain wines, coffee, pimiento, cambric and printed calico, and further, regulated the export of lumber and

iron.
The Stamp Act:1765
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765.

The new tax was imposed on all Americans colonies and required them to pay tax on every piece of printed paper they used. The actual cost of the Stamp Act was relatively small. What made the law so offensive to the colonist was no so much its immediate cost but the standard it seemed to set, In the past, taxes and duties on colonial trade had always been viewed as measures to regulate commerce, not to raise money.
Declaratory Act:1766
The Declaratory Act, It stated that the British parliament taxing authority was the same time in America as in Great Britain. Parliament had directly taxe the colonies for revenue in the Sugar Act and the Stamp Act. Parliament modified the recalcitrant colonists by repeating the distasteful Stamp act.This crisis focused attention on the unresolved question of Parliament’s relationship to a growing empire. The act particularly illustrated British insensitivity to the political maturity that had developed in the American provinces during the 18th century.
The Townshend

Act:1767
The Townshend Act is a series of measures introduced into the English parliament by chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshend in 1767 the Townshend acts imposed duties on glass, lead paints, paper, and tea imported into the colonies.

Townshend hoped the Acts would defray imperial expenses in the colonies,but many Americans viewed the taxation as an abuse of power resulting in the passage of agreements to limit

The Boston Massacre:1770
The Boston Massacre occurred on March 5, 1770. A squad of British soldiers, came to support a sentry who was being pressed by a heckling,snowballing crowd, let loose a volley of shots, three persons were killed immediately and two died later of their wounds I among the victims Cripus Attucks, a man of black or Indian Parentage.
The British officer in charge, Capt.Thomas.Preston, was arrested for manslaughter, among with eight of his men; all were later acquitted. The Boston Massacre is remembered as a key event in helping to galvanize the colonial public to the patriot cause.
The Boston Tea Party:1773
The Boston Tea Party, This famed act of American colonial defiance served as a protest against taxation. Seeking to boost the troubled East India Company, British Parliament adjusted import duties with the passage of the Tea Act in 1773. While consignees in Charleston, New York, and Philadelphia rejected tea shipments, merchants in Boston refused to concede to Patriot pressure. On the night of December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. This resulted in the passage of the punitive Coercive Acts in 1774 and pushed the two sides closer to war.
Intolerable Acts:1774
Intolerable Acts also known as Coercive Acts, in the U.S. colonial history, four punitive by the measures enacted by the British parliament in retaliation for acts of colonial defiance together with the Quebec Act establishing a new administration for the terrifying ceded to Britain after the French and Indian War.
The Cumulative effect of the reports of colonial resistance to British rule during the winter of 1773-74 was to make parliament more determined than ever to assert its authority in America. The main force of its actions fell on Boston, which seemed to be the centre of colonial hostility. Angered by the Boston Tea Party (1773), the British government passed the Boston Port Bill, closing that city’s harbour until restitution was made for the destroyed tea. Second, the Massachusetts Government Act abrogated the colony’s charter of 1691, reducing it to the level of a crown colony, substituting a military government under Gen. Thomas Cage, and forbidding town meetings without approval.
Conclusion
Finally, the conclusion of the American revolution when the revolution was happening there were many taxes, treaties, and acts going on at that moment in time now that the generation of the revolution is over we are still affected by the taxes, treaties, and acts to this day like liberty, republicanism, and independence are powerful causes.