Plzz help What were the causes of the American Revolution?

Question

I need to do an oaktag on the causes of the American revolution and I am freaking out! I have a huge textbook with many pages and small words since i am going to ap us.

So can people help me point out the cause of the American REvolution???

Also what do you suggest me put on the oaktag?

pics of the events and sentences to explain it?

thank thank you thankyou so much in advance

Answer 1

Yes, you might use the "events" approach . . or you might try more to combine it with the ISSUES that made particular events important (WHAT was objectionable about THIS particular tax, declaration, etc.)

Here's an idea that might help. The following is one writer's suggested list of the "Top 10 Civil Liberties Violations That Helped Cause the American Revolution"

1) Taxation Without Representation
2) No Free Trade
3) Unlimited Search and Seizure
4) Destruction of Colonial Government
5) Oppression of Political Protesters
6) Immunity for Corrupt and Abusive British Officers
7) Direct Control of the Criminal Justice System
8) Guilty by Parliament - no guarantee of trial by jury
9) Forced Quartering of Soldiers
10) Closure of the Boston Port
http://civilliberty.about.com/od/historyprofiles/tp/independence.htm
(the page includes an explanation of each point)

Specific enumerations of the liberties the colonists believed had been violated are found in the various written complaints by individual colonies and by the Second Continental Congress at the beginning of the Revolution. The best known of these is, of course, the list found in the Declaration of Independence (as THE reasons for which they were declaring independence).
http://www.law.indiana.edu/uslawdocs/declaration.html

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What you'd probably want to do then, is to connect several of those "abuses" to the specific EVENTS, Acts of Parliament, etc that were examples of them (you might have more than one event, etc clustered together for one issue).

ANOTHER thing to keep in mind -- the usual list of events, "grievances" etc. begins with CHANGES in British policy under George III, when the French & Indian War ended. BEFORE that time, the overall policy was what Edmund Burke later called one of "wise and salutary neglect".

So, in a key way, you might almost say "THE" cause of the movement toward the Revolution was the shift from that older policy to a newer approach, expressed in a variety of ways (through all the acts, declarations, etc)

In that case, you might begin with something indicating the OLD policy, then the beginnings of the change, followed by everything from the Stamp Act to the "Intolerable Acts" and the decision of the British to cease colonial weaponry. . . (the final piece that led to Lexington and Concord)

Good luck!

Answer 2

There are several acts of the British government that caused this:
Tea Act - allowed the British East India Company to undersell its competitors in the colonies
Quartering Act- this made the individual towns and villages that held British troops to provide lodging, food, and and drink
Townshend Act - actually a series of four acts that levied direct taxes on the colonies, allowed more inspection on imports, and let tea come to the US levy free
Sugar Act - granted the British West Indies company a monopoly on the America sugar market
Stamp Act- fee for all commercial and legal papers
Finally the Intolerable Act which closed Boston's seaport.

Britain's last chance to avert war was through the Olive Branch Petition which stated the US would remain loyal as long as the Intolerable Act was repealed. It wasn't. So the colonists rebelled.

Answer 3

I don't know what an "oaktag" is, sorry, but the cause of the American Revolution was British rule. The settlers wanted to be free to live as they saw fit and worship as they wanted; they didn't want to live under British "tyranny". Britain, of course, didn't agree (they wanted the tax money from the settlers and control of the "new world"). Hence, the war.

Answer 4

New inventions including the steam engine, textile equipment and iron making techniques; a more productive English agriculture; the construction of canals; the strength of the English commercial economy; rising demand for good manufactured outside of the household;

Answer 5

'No taxation without representation' - that's probably the #1 cause. The colonists were sick of being taxed by the British without actually having any say in how the government could treat them.

Answer 6

i think that what you should put on your oat tag is this
"the founding fathers were miserly skinflints who wouldn't pay their taxes and as such are a shining example to the rest of us. Taxes are bad. "