THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
AMERICAN REVOLUTION SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT
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Parliament repeals the Stamp and Sugar Acts
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King George III allows colonists to petition Parliament for tax relief
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Parliament passes the Intolerable Acts
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King George III appoints colonial representatives to Parliament
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Detailed explanation-1: -In April 1774, the British Parliament passed the Coercive (or Intolerable) Acts, which punished Massachusetts for the Tea Party incident. The Acts not only took away home rule from Massachusetts, it forced all Americans to board British troops in unoccupied buildings.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Tea Act: The Catalyst of the Boston Tea Party. The Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Intolerable Acts were a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws aimed to punish Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest of the Tea Act, a tax measure enacted by Parliament in May 1773.
Detailed explanation-4: -American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation, ” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor. The event was the first major act of defiance to British rule over the colonists.