THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
AMERICAN REVOLUTION SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT
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Colonists participated in triangular trade.
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The Boston Massacre took place on March 5, 1770.
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Samuel Adams founded the Sons of Liberty.
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The Quartering Act was a serious violation of the colonists’ liberties.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Quartering Act was passed primarily in response to greatly increased empire defense costs in America following the French and Indian War and Pontiac’s War.
Detailed explanation-2: -Colonists resented the Quartering Act as unjust taxation, as it required colonial legislatures to pay to house the troops. References to the Quartering Act appear in the Declaration of Independence and in the U.S. Constitution.
Detailed explanation-3: -This new act allowed royal governors, rather than colonial legislatures, to find homes and buildings to quarter or house British soldiers. This only further enraged the colonists by having what appeared to be foreign soldiers boarded in American cities and taking away their authority to keep the soldiers distant.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Quartering Act: 1765 Cause: British government left soldiers behind to protect the colonists from the Native Americans or French settlers in Florida. They thought the colonists should help pay for this army. Effect: The colonists were angry about the Quartering Act.