Steps that lead to the Revolution and Constitution

There were several steps that led to the revolution in America. The main events that caused it were the Townshend Acts, Stamp Act Congress, Navigation Acts, Boston and the Tea Party. The following paragraph will clarify each event and how they escort subsequently.

The first incident that caused the events that led to the American Revolution was that the colonists defeated Indians and the French had left. The British assumed colonists had not contributed enough to the French and Indian war and needed colonists to assist paying for the war’s price.

First, King George III made a proclamation. He restricted colonists to inhabit west of the Appalachian Mountains. The British then established new policies such as the Navigation acts, and recognized taxes on the Sugar act (1764), Stamp act (1765), and Townshend acts (1767).

The Navigation acts consisted of using only British and Colonial ships to sail, Exporting tobacco, sugar, indigo and furs only to Britain, and importing only from Britain or pay tax on exotic goods.

They then recalled Sugar acts in 1764. The sugar acts reduced existing taxes on import from Caribbean but made tax collection very strict. One year later, they started Stamp acts. It was the first interior tax, everyone publishing newspapers, writing wills or any legal printed document had to buy taxed stamps.

Two years later, Townshend acts began. Britain put new taxes on import of paper, glass, paint and tea. Then, the law forced colonists to provide British soldiers food accommodation when requested. This was called the Quartering acts.

The colonists responded by having a stamp congress. Delegates from 9 colonies gathered up in New York to find a way out of the stamp acts. They came up with arguments about how they possessed rights of Englishmen and that they could only be taxed by colonial legislatures and not by Parliament. They then instructed colonial boycott of British goods.

The Boston Tea Party then happened. The parliament made tea inexpensive and approved the Tea act 1773 releasing East India from paying taxes in England on tea shipped to the colonies.

Colonists still disliked the Tea Act since the merchants who illegally bring tea from Holland to avoid tea tax now could not contend and because they still had to pay the taxes of the Townshend acts. Subsequently n 1773, some colonists yearning for revenge disguised as Indians and dumped the tea into the harbor.

The Parliament was furious and responded by having Intolerable Acts in 1774. They were determined to penalize Massachusetts so they closed the Boston harbor until all the tea the colonists dumped was paid for. They then allowed soldier division in any town causing the colonists to have the First Continental Congress (1774). Delegates from 12 colonies gathered up in Philadelphia to demonstrate colonial resistance to intolerable Acts. They settled the boycott growth of British goods. They even started training military and storing military supplies. This eventually led to America’s Revolution.

The French and Indian war was a British war fought in western colonial lands and in the north. Parliament needed funds to help pay for it. They started taxing and acts that caused reactions from the colonists. These procedures eventually led to the start of the American Revolution.