What factors helped bring about the American Revolution?

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What factors helped bring about the American
Revolution?
LESSON 3
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The Colonists Establish Democratic Institutions

• Virginia House of Burgesses (1619)
• 1ST colonial lawmaking body
• Right to vote only for white male landowners
• Mayflower Compact (1620)
• Pilgrims agree to pass and obey just laws
• Direct democracy
• New England Town Meetings
• Passed local ordinances
• Town representatives elected
• Direct democracy

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Causes of the American Revolution

• Causes of the American Revolution
• Salutary neglect
• Healthy ignorance of the colonists
• British are preoccupied with the French

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Causes of the American Revolution

1. Effects of the French and Indian War

• Colonists
• Gained self confidence and military experience
• Saw the need for the colonial unity
• Danger from French and Indian attacks removed

• Britain
• Stopped salutary neglect
• Believed colonists didnt do enough to win the
  war
• Colonists benefited greatly from the war
• Colonists should help pay for the costs of the war

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Causes of the American Revolution

• Economic Causes
• Navigation Acts
• Transport goods on British/colonial ships
• Export certain goods only to Britain
• Import only British goods / pay duties

Burning of the Gaspee (1772) Symbol of American
discontent with Navigati0n Acts
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Causes of the American Revolution

• Economic Causes (cont)
• New Taxes
• Sugar Act (1764) Duty on import of sugar
• Stamp Act (1765)
• 1st internal tax (tax on goods produced within
  the colonies)
• Placed on printed materials
• Townshend Acts (1767) Import tax placed on
  glass, paper, and tea.

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Causes of the American Revolution

• Political Causes
• Admiralty Courts denied trial by jury
• Lack of representation in Parliament
• Proclamation of 1763
• Intolerable Acts 1774
• Closed Boston Harbor
• Ended self govt
• Quartering of troops
• British officials tried in Britain

Colonialist Reaction?
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Causes of the American Revolution

• Social Causes
• Quartering Act of 1765
• Misunderstanding of lifestyles
• Colonists didnt understand British point of view
• King George III saw the colonists as ungrateful
  and disloyal
• Non British citizens hostile to Britain

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