5-10 events that lead to the American Revolution, please help me out here?

Question

I could just use a couple, i have a project due tomorow i just found out about, please help me out

Answer 1

Problems arose after the British won a war against France and they gained more land in North America, but also had a large debt. They eventually had to create taxes for the colonies, which they never had done before (they had only issued trading duties that regulated trade till then).
Then tensions rose with the Boston "Massacre" which was used as propaganda to against Britain. Then the Tea Act which led to the Boston Tea Party. As punishment for the Boston Tea Party the Coercive or Intolerble Acts were issued. In response to these events the colonies held the First Continental Congress.

The whole "taxation without representation" did not mean that the colonies wanted to have representatives in the British Parliament. They were stating that they wanted to return to the old colonial system in which they taxed themselves.

Answer 2

1. Taxation without representation
2. Liberalism and republicanism
3. Western land dispute

Answer 3

taxation without representation

boston massacre

repeal of the Towshend Act

Answer 4

1.) Apr 5,1764
(London) Faced with the expenses of defending the American colonies and the cost of the French and Indian War, Parliament approves a revenue generating measure called the American Revenue Act of 1764. Known in the colonies as the "Sugar Act", it doubles the cost for Colonists on foreign molasses and creates a monopoly on the American sugar market for British planters. It was the first law ever passed by Parliament specifically aimed at raising money for England in the Colonies, and was defended by the members of Parliament as a measure to raise revenues for the military defense of the Colonies. Initiated by Lord George Grenville, Chancellor of the Exchequer, it was the first of two "Grenville" acts that would outrage colonists and eventually lead to the American Revolution.

2.) Apr 19,1764
(London) Parliament, at the urging of Lord Grenville, passes a Currency Act, prohibiting the American colonies from printing paper money.

3.) Mar 22,1765
(London) At the urging of Lord Grenville Parliament passes a Stamp Act in the American colonies. This measure called for a stamp costing from a halfpenny to 10 pounds to be placed on all sorts of printed documents from newspapers and books to legal documents like deeds and licenses... even a deck of playing cards. The revenue from these stamps was to be collected by appointed colonial "tax agents" who would be paid 300 pounds a year for their services. The Stamp Act is scheduled to become effective in the colonies on November 1st.

4.) Mar 24,1765
(Colonies) The Quartering Act requested by the commander-in-chief of all British military forces in the Colonies General Thomas Gage becomes effective. This act required colonists to provide both shelter and food for British soldiers and their horses.

5.) Dec 19,1766
(New York) General Thomas Gage orders the closure of the New York Assembly. As the site of considerable riot in opposition to the Stamp Act recently repealed, General Gage had ordered many of his soldiers to maintain order in New York. Governor Henry Moore had invoked the Quartering Act to require the New York Assembly to provide food and shelter for Gage's New York based soldiers, a request the Assembly had refused on the basis of lacking funds.

6.) June 15,1767
(London) The first of the Townshend Acts is approved, a measure suspending the New York Assembly until such time as it complies with the Quartering Act.

7.) June 29,1767
(London) The SECOND and THIRD of the Townshend Acts are passed. These revenue acts levy new duties on lead, painters' colors, glass, paper and tea...small items that Townshend felt could be taxed with little notice or concern in the Colonies.

8.) June 1767
(London) The FOURTH and final Townshend Act is passed repealing duties on tea in England and allowing tea to be exported free of taxation.
Also a part of the Townshend Acts was the establishment of a Board of Customs Commissioners in Boston with broad powers to collect the new taxes. This Board had the power to use WRITS OF ASSISTANCE allowing them authority to search warehouses and private homes to seize smuggled goods. The number of vice admiralty courts, a non-jury trial procedure used against violators of the Acts, were increased.

A final insult was laid upon the Colonial Assemblies when the Townshend Acts provided for using the taxes raised by the acts to pay the salaries of Colonial governors and judges. Previously the compensation provided to royal officials and employees was controlled by the individual assemblies, but this provision of the Acts eliminated all control the assembly may have otherwise had over those officials.

9.) Oct 11768
(Boston) General Thomas Gage has personally taken command of the situation in Boston, and today his contingent was reinforced by two regiments at the request of Lord Hillsborough. The newly arrived troops were welcomed by some loyalists in the city as they marched through Boston with great pomp and circumstance in a visible show of force. Others are angered at the billeting of these troops in their city and see their presence as a threat to personal liberties. The troops could have been housed at the nearby fort Castle William, but the British commanders and local leadership decided it best to house the soldiers within the city that has been the scene of so much unrest and rebellion against the crown. In addition to the ground forces, British war ships are stationed throughout Boston Harbor, making the city almost appear to be under siege.

10.) March 5,1770
(Boston) Tensions have remained high in Boston since British soldiers arrived in force a little over a year before. Local sentiments against "Redcoats" were further increased in the early months of 1770 as off-duty soldiers began earning extra income by replacing striking workers in local industries. When Boston barber Edward Garrick accused one of the soldiers of hitting him in the head with a rifle, a small group of Redcoats came to the rescue of their comrade. They were met by an angry mob of Boston citizens who quickly resorted to pelting the soldiers first with insults, then with snowballs, then with rocks and oyster shells.
As the mob continued to taunt and pelt the soldiers, without orders one of them began to fire into the crowd, his actions soon followed by others. When the musket fire ended Crispus Attucks, one of the leaders in the mob, as well as two others were dead. Two more citizens later succumbed to wounds received in the attack, and six more survived wounds in what became known as the "Boston Massacre". Further citizen uprisings were averted when the British soldiers withdrew to islands in the Harbor.

11.) June 9,1772
(Rhode Island) British Lieutenant William Dudingston's revenue cutter "Gaspee" ran aground in the darkness at Namquit Point near Providence, Rhode Island. Dudingston was both hated and feared in the Colonies for his aggressive efforts to end smuggling in the area, and quickly became their target. A group of patriots led by Abraham Whipple boarded the grounded ship, put the commander and his crew ashore, and then defiantly burned the Gaspee. It was a bold and radical move by these Colonists, invoking the wrath of the royal governor who offered a reward for information to identify the men involved. He has indicated that any of the men identified will be sent to England for trial, a move that has further upset the local patriots. Rhode Island chief justice Stephen Hopkins refused to sanction the arrest and trial of the men involved saying he would neither apprehend anyone responsible "nor suffer any executing officer of the colony to do it."

12.) Dec 16,1773
(Boston) Local citizens have their own solution for the three British merchant ships stalled in Boston Harbor with their unwanted cargo of East India Tea Company tea. Disguised as Indians some 60 members of the Sons of Liberty boarded the three vessels one-by-one to dump their cargo of tea into the salt water of the Harbor. Unconfirmed reports spread that local activist John Hancock, Boston's richest resident, actually led the raiding party. What is certain is that the local populace enjoyed the event that began around 6 o'clock in the evening, the crowd cheering from Griffin's Wharf as 342 chests of tea were dumped. When the raiding party withdrew there was not tea remaining on any of the three ships but not one British sailor was injured in the attack, and the tea was the only cargo aboard ship that was destroyed.
The importance of this single act of rebellion was not lost on the moderate politician John Adams who said, "The people should never rise without doing something to be remembered, something notable and striking. This destruction of the tea is so bold, so daring, so firm, intrepid and inflexible, and it must have important consequences." A more radical patriot leader Josiah Quincy, Jr. has predicted that the event now being called the "Boston Tea Party" will lead "to the most trying and terrific struggle this country ever saw."

13.) Mar 31,1774
(London) Most Colonists have anticipated that King George III would act swiftly and decisively in the aftermath of last year's rebellious "Boston Tea Party". To assert England's authority over the Colonies, Parliament has passed the Boston Port Bill, closing the harbor until the Colonists agree to pay for the ruined tea. Only food, fuel and military stores can now be brought into the harbor, and then only if cleared by a royal customs official.

14.) June 2,1774
(Boston) The fourth of Parliament's Coercive Acts is passed broadening the Quartering Act of 1765. Where the previous act called for the Colonies to provide shelter, and more specifically barracks, as well as food for British soldiers and their horses, the new act demands that the Colonists provide "housing" for these soldiers and their mounts. This has grave implications upon the populace as they may now be forced to allow soldiers to reside in their own dwellings. The effects of these four acts of Parliament are meeting stiff resistance by Colonists who consider them illegal acts of aggression that can not be tolerated by a reasonable society. For this reason the acts have become widely known as the "INTOLERABLE ACTS".

15.) Sep 6,1774
(Boston) Amid unfounded rumors that the British had burned Boston to the ground, 40,000 Colonial militia were quickly mobilized. Though the militia disbanded when it was learned that the rumors were false, the size and efficiency of the local militia was enough to concern General Thomas Gage who commands the 3,000 British soldiers garrisoned in Boston. The potential of such a threat has led him to fortify the city with a full regiment supported by field guns.

16.) January,1775
(London) King George III has responded to recent activities in the American Colonies by declaring "The new England governments are in a state of rebellion. Blows must decide whether they are to be subject to this country or independent." Parliament responds by ordering troops against Massachusetts, though the order does not reach General Gage until April 14th.

17.) April 13,1775
(London) Determined to demonstrate his right and that of Parliament to govern the activities of the American Colonies and in retaliation for the work of The Association previously created by the Continental Congress, Lord North extends the New England Restraining Act to the southern and middle colonies of Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia. This act forbids the colonies to conduct trade with any countries other than Britain and Ireland.

18.) April 14,1775
(Boston) General Thomas Gage finally received the orders issued by Parliament last January to take military action to quell the rising rebellion in the American colonies. Moving swiftly the British commander a secret plan to send 800 troops to the city of Concord just 20 miles west of Boston. Local militia had been storing arms and military supplies at Concord and General Gage was determined to surprise the Minutemen, seize their supplies and disarm the militia. He further ordered the arrest of radical leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock.

19.) April 19,1775
(Lexington) An advance guard of British soldiers led by Major John Pitcairn approach the small town of Lexington in their early morning march towards Concord, where they are met by 40 - 50 armed and ready Minutemen led by Captain John Parker. The order for the Patriots is not to fire unless they are fired upon, but Captain Parker concludes with the statement, "If they want a war, let it begin here." Standing in the village green, the brave patriots initially bar the passage of Pitcairn's Redcoats, then begin to retreat. Without warning a pistol shot is fired. It is the "shot heard round the world". The retreating Minutemen fire far fewer rounds than the British contingent and when the battle smoke clears eight patriots are dead and 10 more are wounded. It is the first deadly battle of the American Revolution.
After the deadly confrontation at Lexington the British soldiers continue their march to Concord where they locate and destroy some of the stockpiled patriot military supplies. But even as they attempt to successfully complete their mission, the British soldiers find themselves confronted by large groups of Minutemen pouring into Concord from all directions. When several hundred Minutemen engaged three companies of British soldiers at Concord's North Bridge, the tide of battle changed. The badly beaten Redcoats retreated to the center of Concord and attempted to regroup before beginning the twenty mile march back to Boston. Along the route the Redcoat contingent was beset by continued sniper fire that wreaked havoc among their ranks and caused many losses. Total disaster was averted only by the arrival of 1500 additional soldiers sent by General Gage to reinforce the retreating British soldiers. By days end the British had sustained 273 casualties, the Patriots fewer than 100. The battle forced General Gage to grudgingly admit, "The rebels are not the despicable rabble too many have supposed them to be."

20.) May 10,1775
(New York) In an effort to capture the heavy weapons needed to drive the British forces from Boston, Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen have lead 200 of their Green Mountain Boys through upper New York and the outskirts of the British garrison at Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain. Today, without firing a single shot, they captured the fort and confiscated 50 cannon, 2300 pounds of lead and a barrel of flints for muskets. It is reported that when the British commander at the British outpost inquired of Ethan Allen by what authority he was conducting his military campaign, Mr. Allen replied "In the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress." The captured military supplies will be taken under the command of Henry Knox to reinforce the Minutemen outside Boston.